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Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads Measurement

SeattleFull-time$315k2026-10-02 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Define technical strategy for Pinterest's advertiser measurement and signal-quality ecosystem, leading multi-year investments in ML, data platforms, and production reliability.

Role type

Director, Machine Learning Engineering (Ads Measurement)

Builds

Scalable ML, data, and platform solutions for advertiser measurement, identity, and signal quality.

Domain

Advertising technology, large-scale data processing, privacy, and machine learning.

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Ads measurement, identity management, large-scale data processing, technical strategy definition, organizational leadership, cross-functional influence, causal measurement, model quality, privacy compliance, production operations.

Preferred skills

Privacy-enhancing technologies, probabilistic matching, graph systems, anomaly detection, event-quality modeling, ML platforms, real-time/streaming systems, agentic systems for developer productivity.

Responsibilities

Define technical strategy and investment priorities; lead managers and senior technical leaders; partner with Product, Data Science, Privacy, and Sales; translate business problems into scalable solutions; raise the bar for experimentation and reliability; create cross-team governance mechanisms; recruit and develop high-performing teams.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical direction