Staff Product Manager, Etsy
ML Enablement
$194-252k
+ Eligible for an equity package & an annual performance bonus
More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Open for applications
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$194-252k
+ Eligible for an equity package & an annual performance bonus
More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Technical fluency and 5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2–3 years in ML, data or infrastructure-focused platform teams (e.g. model training and inferencing, feature stores, orchestration frameworks)
- Proven track record of working effectively with engineering in defining strategy and drive execution in complex, cross-functional technical spaces
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to align stakeholders across engineering, data science and infrastructure teams
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and change in a dynamic, evolving organizational context
- Strong bias for action and impact: A proactive demeanor with a passion for creative problem solving. Comfortable navigating ambiguity while maintaining focus on delivering results that matter to buyers and the business
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to join our Machine Learning Enablement (MLE) organization. MLE builds the tools, platforms and developer experiences that power every machine learning system at Etsy enabling hundreds of scientists and engineers to train, evaluate and deploy models that deliver value across Search, Ads and Recommendations
- As a Staff PM on this team, you’ll help build the next generation of Etsy’s ML platform: enabling faster ML developer velocity, improved reliability and more cohesive developer experience ensuring our platform investments deliver measurable impact for ML practitioners
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Group Product Manager
- The ML Enablement initiative owns the systems and infrastructure that support ML ecosystem end-to-end. Teams within MLE focus on:
- Feature and embeddings infrastructure: Delivering reliable, consistent, high-quality feature and embedding data for training and serving ML models
- Model development and training: Building standardized PyTorch development and training workflows that enable fast iteration for ML practitioners
- Orchestration and integration testing: Powering online experimentation and offline evaluation, model deployment and developer velocity
- This role will flex across these problem spaces depending on business needs giving you the opportunity to define strategy and deliver impact across multiple high-leverage areas
- Product Strategy: Define the strategy and roadmap for a cohesive ML development experience at Etsy, ensuring consistency across data, training and serving
- Product Execution: Partner with engineering leads to simplify ML workflows and reduce friction in model development and deployment
- Product Collaboration: Collaborate with ML product teams to understand their problems and prioritize platform investments that maximize impact
- Quality Craft: Translate technical opportunities into clear customer outcomes and measurable success metrics
- Product Leadership: Represent ML Enablement in cross-org planning with teams in Search, Ads, Recs, Data Enablement and Experimentation
- Of course, this is just a sample of the work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks as needed and that your job duties and responsibilities may evolve over time
Application process
- 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 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. A hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers created significant discontent amongst sellers. Despite this, Etsy continues to connect artists and consumers, attracting shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
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.
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