Scott Goodson former facebooker is hired at Pinterest as the head of core experience

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Tech June 20, 2015

Scott Goodson is a former Facebook and apple engineer, at Facebook he managed the paper and instagram iphone and ipad engineering team, he also led the rewriting of the core app of face book. he is also among the first engineers to work on the first iphone operating system.

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What is Pinterest?

This is visual discovery and planning tool Company categorized in Curated web, Social Media and Socialbookmarking and people (pinners) use it as a site and app to get ideas for their future like places to travel, products to buy and recipes.

It was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp in 2009 and it is located in San Francisco, California.

In Pinterest Scott is to run the Company’s mobile platform and web teams focusing on improving the apps performance across various devices leading a team that is responsible for developing user interface elements and end – user interface experience of Pinterest and he is to report to Michael Lopp Pinterest’s head of engineering

Pinterest is rapidly becoming a powerful home for Commerce and search and hiring people like Scott means bringing flesh blood ideas to the Company.

Earlier this month it launched payable pins which also retailers to sell their items directly on Pinterest and also it launced its Marketing Developer Program which gives Companies a set of tools to help them create pins that users are likely to engage with thus ensuring high levels of engagement helping Pinterest to make sure people are returning to Pinterest over and over again giving an opportunity to the advertisers to get in front of those users and drive Pinterest business.

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