Mara is a language systems architect whose work sits at the intersection of taxonomy, schema design, and ML product infrastructure. Most recently at Pinterest, she spent four years as the content design lead for the Monetization sector. Notable projects include building language systems for AI pipelines (including a four-stage LLM pipeline for catalog title generation that reached 97% accuracy across 2,000 advertiser-facing titles) and a signal-centered taxonomy architecture for trends.pinterest.com.

She's a lifelong learner, a painter, a hiker, and a mom to two young kids. The shift into AI-adjacent work has been less of a pivot and more of a surfacing—bringing forward engineering-oriented instincts that she's always had didn't have a name or a home in traditional content design roles.

She writes about that trajectory on her Substack, Heart Off Leash. Mara also has a real passion for mentorship, particularly for systems-oriented content designers who are ready to imagine the compelling future that awaits them in an AI-native work landscape.