Jeremy King (SVP of Engineering @ Pinterest) discusses some of the challenges, principles & frameworks behind building inclusive products. We also cover filtering decisions through your company mission, investing in rest and emerging challenges around creating serendipity with ideas, onboarding, retaining talent and the hard logistics of workplace flexibility.ABOUT JEREMY KINGJeremy King is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Pinterest, where he leads the company’s technical direction and oversees the entire Engineering team building deeply technical products, platforms and machine learning systems. Previously, he was the CTO of Walmart, where he led the digital transformation effort of the company including customer technology, merchant technology and supply chain technology that covered all Walmart U.S. stores and eCommerce. Prior to that, King was Executive Vice President of technology at LiveOps, and Vice President of engineering and software development at eBay. He holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from San Jose State University, and is an advisory board member for the CTO Forum, an organization that brings together senior leaders across the technology industry to collaborate on key issues and accelerate innovation across organizations.SHOW NOTES:Building inclusive products starts by having diverse data setsWhy your data is probably biased alreadyWhere to start with building inclusive productsThree principles to build inclusive productsHow Pinterest disrupts entrenched patterns of thinking & balances innovation and actionHow to decide which experiments to implementWhy ROI should not be the only metric of effectivenessHow to filter decisions through your company’s missionHow AR aligns with Pinterest’s mission & allows “Pinners” to explore & experiment with different identitiesCovid’s impact on retaining talentHow “investing in rest” & cultivating work-life balance can increase productivityHow to schedule a day off for your entire engineering orgUpcoming Industry Challenges: building in serendipity, onboarding in a remote-first workplace & the logistics of workplace flexibilityRapid-Fire QuestionsTakeawaysLINKS AND RESOURCESInclusive Search and Recommendations - Nadia Fawaz’s talk on How Inclusive Search, & AI works at PinterestCheck out our friends and sponsor, Jellyfish. Jellyfish helps you align engineering work with business priorities and enables you to make better strategic decisions.Learn more at Jellyfish.co/elcLooking for other ways to get involved with ELC? Check out all of our upcoming events, peer groups, and other programs at www.sfelc.com!