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Pinterest’s Summer Picnic [in a box]

Usually at this time, Pinterest teams around the globe are gathering for mid-year celebrations — for those of us north of the equator, it’s the annual “summer picnic!” We invite friends, families and teams to gather for fun at local spots like…

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Scaling Pinterests ad corpus by 60x

In May 2020, Pinterest launched a partnership with Shopify that allowed merchants to easily upload their catalogs to the Pinterest platform and create Product Pins and shopping ads...

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Pinterest’s Makeathon 2021

The Pinterest Makeathon is a time when employees come together to work on passion projects and hacks that they may not have time for in their normal scope of work. We recently held our 9th annual and second virtual Makeathon, and people from across…

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Delivering relevant ads to Pinners

Pinterest is where people go to plan and shop, making ideas and ads from brands helpful in taking Pinners from inspiration to action. It’s our goal to ensure ads continue to be additive and not intrusive on Pinterest...

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People Behind the Product: Get to know Erin Elofson, Pinterest’s Head of Canada and APAC

It has been a big summer for Pinterest Toronto. A huge new office space, a spot on Great Place to Work’s Best Workplaces in Ontario list, and openings for dozens of roles including an exciting Country Manager position reporting to Erin Elofson. On…

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Advertiser recommendation systems

The Ads Intelligence team at Pinterest is charged with building and maintaining machine learning and algorithm-driven recommendations and the Recommendations Ranker to provide advertisers with the best experience in reaching relevant Pinners and help them reach their campaign goals...

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“A dash of daydreaming” – Pinterest’s Ashley Cook on her experience partnering with New York City’s Rising Ground

When I started to seriously think about what I wanted to do with my life, no one told me I could get a job using my imagination. My parents worked as a nurse and boilermaker — the advertising world was as foreign to them as Mars. After seeing Free…

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Trusting metrics at Pinterest

Pinterest, like many tech companies, relies heavily on data to help inform decisions and power machine learning. This strategy fundamentally depends on the data being accurate...

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Bloom 2021: Pinterest’s first-ever global conference for Black employees

What is Bloom? Bloom is Pinterest’s first ever internal conference, hosted by Blackboard, our Community for Black Pinployees, contractors and their allies. The conference, which occurred today, was for Black Pinployees based anywhere in the world,…

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A life you love, a self you love: Pinterest’s Ari Simon on Emotional Well-Being

In honor of Mental Health Awareness month, we sat down with Ari Simon, Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy at Pinterest, to discuss Pinterest’s support of mental wellness and emotional well-being. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about…

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How Pinterest fights spam

Hundreds of millions of people visit Pinterest each month to discover ideas among billions of Pins. Inspiration is a high bar and so we must be vigilant in ensuring Pinners don’t see spam, harmful content, or misinformation...

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People Behind the Product: Meet Jud Hoffman, Global Head of Community Operations

In the latest from our new Life at Pinterest series, People Behind the Product, get to know Jud Hoffman, Global Head of Community Operations at Pinterest and executive sponsor of Pinwheels, our Employee Community for LGBTQ+ Pinployees and their…

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