Director of Data Science, Ads Delivery & Performance

About Pinterest:Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.Pinterest Ads Delivery & Performance is redefining how digital ads are delivered - challenging 20 years of assumptions to both protect the Pinner experience and grow durable revenue. We support all ad surfaces across Pinterest - Home Feed, Search, Related Pins, Shopping surfaces, Idea Streams, and beyond - each with unique marketplace and product dynamics. You'll lead a highimpact data science organization that partners deeply with Product, Engineering, Research, and other cross functional partners to build the next generation of advertising products and systems.About the role We're looking for a Director who is a leader of leaders and a systems thinker. You will set the strategy for ads delivery and quality, establish the measurement and decision frameworks, and scale a bestinclass team of data scientists. A core mandate for this role is to identify, instrument, and operationalize the input metrics that most directly drive ads delivery, quality, and performance - ensuring we are optimizing the levers that move outcomes, not just reporting on lagging KPIs.What you'll do:Set strategy and outcomesDefine the multiyear vision and roadmap for Ads Delivery & Performance across all Pinterest surfaces, aligning to company and Ads org priorities.Establish clear north-star outcomes (e.g., longterm revenue quality, retained advertiser value, Pinner experience) and the right cascade of input metrics and guardrails that drive them.Make input metrics a firstclass operating systemIdentify, define, and instrument the input metrics that most influence delivery and performance, such as: supply health and coverage, eligibility and match rate, win rate, fill rate, pacing and spend smoothness, auction/bid competitiveness, latency/SLA adherence, ranking/model freshness and coverage, feature quality, CTR/CVR leading indicators, frequency and ad load distribution, quality/relevance signals, and policy/trust frictions.Build metric specs, ownership, alerting, and weekly business reviews so that teams operate to inputs (and understand their elasticities to outcomes like RPM, ROAS, advertiser retention, and Pinner satisfaction).Lead an organization of leadersHire, develop, and inspire a diverse, highperformance organization of data science managers and senior ICs; set crisp role definitions, growth paths, and succession planning.Establish rigorous standards for experimentation, causal inference, and production analytics; ensure consistently trustworthy, decisiongrade outputs.Partner to ship impactWork handinhand with Product and Engineering on marketplace, ranking, pacing, and quality systems (e.g., auction design, supply/demand balancing, relevance, coldstart, ads load/frequency, shopping ads delivery).Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analyses and roadmaps; ensure the org moves from insight to shipped change with measurable impact.Elevate measurement and decision qualityOwn the measurement strategy for ads quality and delivery: counterfactual measurement, lift and incrementality, experiment design, longterm value, and guardrail monitoring for Pinner experience.Improve our decision frameworks, define minimum statistical standards, and drive consistency in A/B testing, quasiexperiments, and observational methods whe

Created: 2026-02-06