Manager of User Understanding

Requirements • We’re looking for a leader with deep infrastructure expertise, a passion for personalization and ML-driven experience, and a strong record of delivering ML-enabling platforms at scale, • 7+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years with large-scale backend or infrastructure systems, • 1+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams, • Proven experience to design, build, and operate distributed systems and large data pipelines at scale, • Direct domain experience supporting search, recommendations, or ML-driven user modeling platforms is a plus, • Strong technical judgment and communication skills; able to collaborate across engineering, ML, and product teams, • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent experience What the job involves • Pinterest is seeking an engineering manager to lead our User Understanding backend team, • This team builds and maintains the data and backend systems that drive user modeling, personalization and recommendations—impacting hundreds of millions of users every day, • You’ll set technical vision, empower a talented group of engineers, and collaborate closely with Machine Learning, Product, and Data Science to unlock better user experiences, • Lead and mentor an engineering team building large-scale data pipelines and distributed backend systems for user understanding and personalization, • Partner with ML engineers and cross-functional leaders to design, deliver, and optimize the entire ML pipeline, from logging/collection through model serving and experimentation, • Set strategy, prioritize work, and translate user and business goals into a clear technical roadmap, • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture, • Manage project execution, technical decision-making, and stakeholder communications, • Drive best practices in data engineering, system reliability, and ML infrastructure Apply tot his job