Senior Manager, Data Science

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. We’re laser focused on creating an exceptional software company, team, and place to work. You can read our principles [here]. 

Our mission: enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We’re building the future of ecommerce; an interactive community where creators can make a living off their passion. 

Did we mention we’re high growth? In January 2021, Whatnot had 10 ambitious employees. Today, the Whatnot team is 120+ employees and will exceed 300 by year end. We’re hiring forward thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. We recruit thoughtfully, can adapt quickly, and are scaling fully remotely.

📈 Opportunity Size

The ecommerce experience has been static for 20+ years and is perhaps the largest opportunity in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is a $170B GMV market in China and has grown 100% YoY. Retail is a $5T market opportunity!

👋 About You

We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to be foundational members of our Data team! You will partner with our Engineering, Product, Finance and Operations teams to identify critical goals for the business, develop a deep understanding of them, and design scalable solutions.

You should have strong critical thinking and analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a knack for working across teams in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will be adept in navigating the data stack and able to support initiatives in all facets from data engineering and product analytics to machine learning and service deployments.

In addition to 8+ years of experience in the Data Analytics field and 2+ years of experience in a data leadership role, you should have:

• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills to stakeholders, leadership, and investors
• Demonstrated history of knowledge in Business Analysis, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or related technical fields
• Industry experience with proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on large scale data
• Proven track record of building and leading data science teams supporting Product, Operations, or GTM teams
• Ability to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
• Experience with operational databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• Comfortability with data warehouses and big data technologies such as Redshift, Snowflake, Big Query, Presto, Athena, Spark, DBT
• Expert in using SQL for data analysis, reporting, and dashboarding
• Experience with a scripting language such as Python or R is a plus
• Aptitude and experience in applied statistics and machine learning techniques
• Firm grasp of visualization tools interactive and self-serving such as business intelligence and notebooks

💻 Role

• Build team roadmap to capture, analyze, and drive data driven decisions across core functions of the business
• Own report building, insights generation, and data informed recommendations
• Organize and shape the collective understanding of business health and opportunities through various data sources both internal and external
• Act as cross functional leader guiding key decision making on high priority initiatives

🎁  Benefits

• Competitive base salary and stock options
• Unlimited Vacation Policy and No Meeting Holidays
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short term disability & Long term Disability
• Whatnot covers 99% of employee premium costs, and 75% of dependent care premiums for Medical
• Dental and Vision sponsored 100% by Whatnot for employees and dependents
• Work From Home Support
• Laptop provided by Whatnot and home office setup allowance
• $450 work-from-anywhere quarterly allowance for cell phone, internet, or co-working space
• Up to $500 monthly to spend within Whatnot App
• Care benefits
• $1,350 quarterly allowance on food
• $1,500 quarterly allowance for wellness
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave and gradual return to work
• $20,000 for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts provided by Betterment
• Employer matching contributions of 100% of up to 4% of contributions on base salary

💛  EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.