Data Scientist, Product Analytics

Company Description

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, Depop, or Elo7 you'll tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

Job Description

What’s the role? 

We are looking for an analytics professional to help drive the success of product efforts at Etsy by providing concrete insights, industry-leading measurement techniques, and access to the metrics, data, and tools needed for decision-making and optimization.

As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for:

• Applying advanced analytical techniques to break down product and business questions into actionable insights that drive the next stage of growth for our users.

• Analyzing online experiments to help improve and personalize the buyer experience.

• Identifying drivers of relevance that contribute to engagement with recommendations, and surfacing inefficiencies that could help unlock improvements to our models.

Do you find joy in guiding strategy with data-driven insights, telling the story of how we improve the experience for our users, to teams, to senior management, and to the community.? If so, this could be the perfect match!

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Analytics and the base salary range will be 104,000 - 136,000 USD per year. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. This role requires your presence in Etsy’s Brooklyn’s office in an in-person or flex capacity. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes as well as vaccination policy here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

• The role is a part of the Product Analytics team, which is responsible for helping drive the success of product efforts at Etsy. We partner with cross-functional peers through all stages of development: identifying initial opportunities, refining the user experience, analyzing the impact of our efforts, and highlighting improvement areas. Ultimately, the team’s work strengthens Etsy and helps continuously improve the Etsy experience!

• In this position, you would partner closely with our Recommendations team, whose focus is building machine learning models that enable relevant and personalized shopping experiences.

What does the day-to-day look like? 

• Transforming raw data into impactful analysis characterized by strong data governance/documentation, rigorous techniques, and actionable recommendations.

• Partnering with product, engineering, design teams; using behavioral and transactional data to shed light on our users and our product experience, identifying areas for improvement, and driving decision-making.

• Identifying impactful metrics to understand the performance of products, developing reporting dashboards to track progress, and ingraining these metrics into teams’ day-to-day decision-making.

• Leading experimentation, helping teams set strong hypotheses, and delivering robust analysis of experiment results.

• Continually evaluating and refining your technical toolkit; teaching what you learn to the team.

• Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law.

Qualifications

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role? 

• 2-4 years experience in a data scientist or data analyst role in which you extracted meaning from big data sets with little engineering support.

• Understanding of the principles of A/B testing, and experience crafting and analyzing experiments.

• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with either R or Python. Bonus points for experience with the Hadoop ecosystem or additional scripting languages (Scala, PHP, Ruby, etc.)

• Experience with Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization software is a plus.

• Desire to advance your technical skill set and to apply new methods to impactful questions.

• Ability to communicate your insights verbally, visually, and in writing, and care for the quality and integrity of your work.

• Ability to play a key role on a cross-functional team.

• Passion for subjects such as experimental design, data visualization, and statistical analysis techniques.

Additional Information

What's Next

If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about.

Our Promise

At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.

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