Staff Data Scientist, Finance & Business Ops

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Pinterest is seeking an experienced Staff Data Scientist to join our Finance & Business Operations team This is a hybrid data-science / applied-AI / product-engineering role inside Pinterests CFO organization

It sits at the intersection of forecasting and finance analytics, internal tool-building, and AI adoption — and the person in it is expected to operate across all three.

The core mandate is to make the CFO orgs forecasting and planning work faster, be more rigorous, and more self-serve In practice that has meant owning a forecasting product end to end (data pipeline through user-facing UI), partnering directly with Finance, BizOps, and Core/Monetization stakeholders to embed it in their workflows, and turning the companys emerging AI platform capabilities into tools that finance teams actually use day to day.

This is a high-autonomy, high-trust individual-contributor role with broad cross-functional reach.

What youll do

• Own forecasting tooling end to end. Build and maintain the teams primary forecasting workbench — from the underlying data and forecast logic through the interactive web UI that planners use to create, adjust, and review forecasts. This spans baseline vs. adjusted forecast modeling, scenario/delta workflows, backtesting, and diagnostics (year-over-year and month-over-month seasonality, engagement rates, and similar). Ship product, not just analysis.
• Design and build user-facing features: chart and visualization wor