Minli Zang
San Mateo,CA
Summary
Results-oriented data science professional with over 13 years of experience in Data Science and Analytics, including 6+ years of successfully managing and building high-performing science and analytic teams. Proven leader with robust analytical skills and extensive expertise in machine learning, experimentation, measurement and product analytics, now seeking a director-level role to further leverage skills and drive impactful results in a dynamic environment.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Data Science Manager, Content & ML& Trust
Pinterest
09.2022 - Current
- Build and lead the Content Data Science and Product Analytic organization with 3 sub teams (17 people) to support the Content and Creator, Trust and Safety and ML signals initiatives across the organizations.
- My org is responsible for a large spectrum of projects, developing metrics/OKRs, leveraging experimentation and causal inference techniques to measure ROI for business investments, prototyped machine learning/AI models and performing deep analysis to understand product usage patterns and users behaviors, perform opportunity sizing analysis to help inform product investment.
- Define vision, org structures and roadmap for the Data Science and Product Analytics organization.
- Grow careers of the team members, including developing tech leads and managers within the organization to lead sub teams.
- Recruit, onboard, and mentor data scientists and product analysts on the team.
- Partner with EPD org leads to define product strategies and drives OKRs development.
- Represent as the data leader in the Monthly Business Review with C-suites to report on initiatives progress.
- Spearhead the Content measurement workstream to measure the value of fresh content, which has led to the company to prioritize and accelerate our content investment.
Data Science Manager
Pinterest
04.2019 - 09.2022
- Scaled the team from 2 to 5 Data Scientist to develop and implement machine learning models to support the Trust and Safety and Content Quality teams.
- My team was also responsible for developing metrics, dashboards and experimentation to measure the overall progress of the teams.
- Responsible for performance of each team member, retaining top talents and performance managed low performers.
Senior Data Scientist, Trust and Safety
Pinterest
01.2018 - 04.2019
- The first Data Scientist worked on Trust and Safety, focusing on developing machine learning models to detect bots and spam domains.
- Profiled unsafe content in the ecosystem and made product recommendation to drive down unsafe content by 50%.
- Proposed and secured funding to start a small data science team to focus on Trust and Safety analytics.
Senior Data Scientist, Growth
Pinterest
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Forecasted user signups and app downloads growth for business planning.
- Estimated 3 year WAU impact for removing the sign up screen and received a company wide Metric Mover award.
Lead Data Scientist
Salesforce
01.2012 - 01.2016
- I was responsible for our data center and server capacity planning. My job included to accurately forecast server usage and detect hardware failure using machine learning and statistical models. Translated forecasted numbers into business plans and strategies.
- Root cause analysis on user wait time which led to 10X improvement and $XX million saving.
- Presented capacity scorecard to VPs of Infrastructure on a weekly basis.
- Product owner for all data dashboards and capacity forecast in our business unit.
Education
Master in Statistical Practice -
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA07-2015
Bachelor - Statistics and Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA05.2012
Skills
- Leadership
- Organization and Team building
- Project management
- Cross-functional team management
- Coaching and mentoring
- Goal setting
- Machine learning algorithms
- Experimentation
- Causal inference
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Data visualization tools
Timeline
Senior Data Science Manager, Content & ML& Trust
Pinterest
09.2022 - Current
Data Science Manager
Pinterest
04.2019 - 09.2022
Senior Data Scientist, Trust and Safety
Pinterest
01.2018 - 04.2019
Senior Data Scientist, Growth
Pinterest
01.2016 - 01.2018
Lead Data Scientist
Salesforce
01.2012 - 01.2016
Master in Statistical Practice -
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor - Statistics and Economics
University of California, Berkeley
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