Senior Data Science Manager, Thumbtack
Growth and Optimization
$200.9-305.8k
Actual salary range is dependent on location
Local services marketplace app
Open for applications
Local services marketplace app
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200.9-305.8k
Actual salary range is dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Thumbtack's mission is to help homeowners care for their homes, all the way from minor retouching to fundamental remodelling projects.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of analytics experience with 3+ years of management experience
- Proven track record of business impact in driving analytics for a growth, performance, direct response, or other ROI-goaled marketing program
- Strong analytical and technical skills, with a willingness to be hands on
- Experience applying experiments, lift tests, attribution, and other measurement techniques to measure and optimize the performance of marketing campaigns
- Effective analytics management skills: you know how to prioritize the highest-impact work, and how to effectively coach and empower a team of analysts
- Strong communication skills and ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally and with senior leadership
What the job involves
- At Thumbtack, we’ve built a highly analytical, data-driven Marketing program that combines quantitative insights, advanced technology, and human creativity to attract and retain customers
- As Senior Manager Data Science, you’ll lead our team of data scientists focused on driving measurable growth across acquisition, engagement, and retention initiatives
- You’ll partner closely with Marketing and Growth leaders — including teams across lifecycle marketing, web conversion optimization, SEO, and personalization — to define and execute a rigorous analytical agenda
- Your leadership will ensure that our marketing decisions are powered by data, experimentation, and clear business impact
- You’ll also grow and mentor a team of marketing data scientists embedded within a Marketing organization known for its commitment to analytical excellence, innovation, and accountability for results
- Lead the analytical vision, ensuring that data, experimentation, and measurement rigor power decision-making across acquisition, engagement, and retention. Define and evolve the metrics, methodologies, and experimentation frameworks that guide growth initiatives
- Define and apply appropriate metrics, measurement methods, and experimentation processes to power a technologically-sophisticated, data-driven program
- Influence senior executive thinking and decision-making through credibly representing both the marketing, product and the DS points of view
- Partner with our Finance, Business Analytics, MarTech, Applied Scientists, and Marketing teams to drive corporate reporting, forecasting, and planning across our integrated marketing programs
- Collaborate with analysts and engineers to develop and improve our marketing analytics infrastructure, including data pipelines and predictive models
- Manage, mentor, coach, inspire, and recruit a team of high-performing marketing data scientists
- Work closely with other DS leaders to evolve and continually improve Thumbtack’s analytics culture in a high paced growth environment
Our take
ThumbTack is a local services marketplace app that pairs customers with skilled professionals. Instead of simply searching for a professional, users provide ThumbTack with details of the job they need completing and the professionals then pitch their services to the potential customer using credits. ThumbTack makes its money by charging the professional for these credits.
It positions itself as something a little different in a saturated local services space that is dominated by companies like Angie’s List, TaskRabbit, Yelp, eBay, and Amazon. It also focuses on a broad range of professionals, from traditional home services like electricians and painters to photographers, personal trainers, and birthday party magicians.
The COVID-19 pandemic saw a boost in business for ThumbTack as more people stayed at home and made changes to their properties, increasing the demand for home professionals. In fact, after 2019, the company doubled in value to $3.2 billion with its 2021 raise. Now its updated app has 30 new features, and the company is partnering with the likes of trade-powering platform and Unicorn ServiceTitan, indicating Thumbtack's sustained sway in the market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jun 2021
$275m
LATE VC
Jul 2019
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $699.4m
Company benefits
- Parental leave
- Health insurance
- Community matters | Sure, our ways of connecting have changed. But we haven’t missed a beat, from virtual concerts to “TTversary” celebrations to weekly catch-ups
- Always be improving | We bring out the best in our colleagues — and our product — by pushing each beyond what we believe we’re capable of. We give honest feedback, even when it’s hard
- Wellness is a way of life | We promote balance with generous PTO and company-wide holidays — and find our centers every Wellness Wednesday with yoga featuring a Thumbtack pro
- A worthy mission | In a world where tech is often seen as eroding good jobs, we’re helping small business owners thrive. Our product makes entrepreneurship accessible to everyone
- Driven by our values | Our values are the compass by which we make all our decisions. Each one matters: Lead with why, Make it count, Own it, Choose teamwork, and Say what you mean
- Plus, amazing benefits | All the benefits you’d expect, plus a few more: generous parental and fertility benefits, $1800 for Thumbtack services per year and a $1200 remote work stipend
- Virtual-first working model coupled with quarterly in-person events and Camp Thumbtack
- 20+ company-wide holidays including two week-long shutdowns
- Libraries (collaborative workspaces) in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Toronto, and Manila
- Cell phone and WiFi reimbursements
- Subscriptions and Employee Assistance Program for mental health and well-being
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marco Zappacosta
(CEO)Having studied at Columbia University, Marco co-founded Thumbtack in August 2008. He has served as CEO since January 2009.
Jonathan Swanson
(Chairman)Jonathan started his career creating financial market reports for the White House before co-founding Thumbtack in 2008. Currently Founder at Powerset and Athena.
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