Staff Product Manager, Etsy
ML Platform
$187-243k
You will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus
Office located in Brooklyn, New York
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$187-243k
You will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus
Office located in Brooklyn, New York
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of technical Product Management or comparable experience, preferably with Machine Learning services or platforms
- Technical problem solving experience and proficiency, including a basic understanding of data science and statistics
- Highly motivated to help the team work with urgency and creativity to build clarity, resolve blockers, and drive impact
- Experience partnering cross-functionally to identify the most meaningful unmet customer and business needs, and building platforms and other solutions that effectively address them
- A trust in and commitment to Etsy’s vision, mission and values
- Proficiency in SQL/BigQuery (preferred)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a seasoned product manager to lead our team focused on building machine learning infrastructure in the modeling space that powers our Search, Ads, Trust & Safety, and Recommendations systems
- As a Staff Product Manager, you will be responsible for developing a strategy and roadmap to build ML infrastructure that enables internal Etsy ML teams to build and serve machine learning models at scale as well as optimizing and creating efficiencies for the training and prototyping phases of the ML life cycle
- You’ll need to build close relationships with our internal users across Etsy to develop a deep understanding of product gaps and challenges
- This role has high impact potential and is essential to enable teams across Etsy to iterate and innovate in a space that is evolving quickly across the industry!
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Product Lead, ML Enablement
- We’re a fast-growing team with the goal of building tools and platform capabilities for scientists and engineers to run predictions with our model serving platform, train state of the art models, deploy machine learning models to production, and test hypotheses quickly
- We support high visibility Machine Learning teams at Etsy including Search, Personalized Recommendations, Ads, Risk Decisioning etc
- Own, define and refine a product strategy that focuses on enabling ML practitioners across Etsy to iterate and innovate quickly and confidently on ML models
- Own various aspects of squad operations, from quarterly planning to sprint planning, ensuring we are focusing on the most relevant business and customer problems with the best solutions
- Integrate user research, market analysis, and customer feedback into product requirements to ensure products satisfy customer needs
- Collaborate with other leaders on the ML Enablement team to ensure healthy team operations and dynamics that drive strong business impact
- 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
Our take
Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art, and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.
Since its IPO in 2015, it has managed to hold its own in an increasingly competitive eCommerce industry, including from Amazon's handmade section that launched in 2015. Further, by providing sellers with ownership over pricing and branding, the site is attractive for those wanting to set up a business on an established platform.
However, the seller-side of Etsy is not without problems. The recent hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers has created significant discontent amongst sellers. Etsy must reconcile these issues to ensure artists continue to operate on the same scale within the platform. It plans to attract shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2012
$40m
LATE VC
Aug 2010
$20m
SERIES E
Total funding: $91.7m
Company benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
Company values
- We commit to our craft - Our work has the power to change lives. That’s why we strive to learn continuously and excel at what we do
- We minimize waste - Time, resources, and energy are precious, so we focus only on what will have the greatest impact
- We embrace differences - Diverse teams are stronger, and inclusive cultures are more resilient. When we seek out different perspectives, we make better decisions and build better products
- We dig deeper - The best solutions to meaningful challenges are rarely easy or obvious. We stay curious, balance our intuition with insights, and decide with confidence
- We lead with optimism - We believe in our mission, and we believe in each other. We see the world as it is, set ambitious goals, and inspire one another with generosity of spirit. Together, we reimagine what is possible
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Articles
Leadership
Josh Silverman
(CEO)Previously senior executive at eBay, CEO of Shopping.com, CEO of Skype and President of Consumer Products & Services at American Express.
People progressing
Became the Director of International Strategy and Operations after a year and 2 months as a senior manager in the division. After nearly 5 years in that role, they became Director of Marketing and International Strategy & Operations, and six months after that was promoted to Senior Director in that same department.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Etsy
- Diversity is a priority at Etsy, owned by everyone:
- A diverse workforce is critical to Etsy’s success—it makes us a stronger, better, more resilient and more relevant company. We have an inclusive culture and each of us actively creates opportunities for underrepresented groups to join, thrive and advance at Etsy
- We welcome all perspectives:
- As individuals, we invite a variety of viewpoints and experiences—especially when they conflict with our own. We encourage questions more than statements, and provide a safe environment in which all employees can surface and discuss concerns
- We measure and share openly:
- We contribute to broader progress by evaluating, iterating and transparently communicating our successes and failures internally and externally
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