Engineering Manager, Etsy
Ads Recommendation Quality
$226-294k
More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, New York
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Job no longer available
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$226-294k
More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, New York
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical field
- Proven experience in software engineering, with a strong background in recommender systems, information retrieval, or machine learning
- 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams, ideally experience with real-time large-scale search, ads, or recommendations
- Strong advocate for supporting and coaching your engineers through the challenges of developing ML and software at scale
- Deep knowledge of embeddings, transformers, and ranking models
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally; explain technical concepts to non-technical collaborators
- Proven track record to drive product development from concept to delivery while maintaining a high standard of engineering excellence
- Ability to facilitate great technical decision-making across a broad technical stack, having passion for the technical aspects of your work, but a desire to let engineers drive the details
- Your enthusiasm and passion for learning and improving are contagious which shows through your experience empowering others to grow!
What the job involves
- Etsy is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Recommendations Quality team. We are looking for people leaders who are product and delivery-driven, and are passionate about making ML innovations in digital advertising to help improve the Etsy buyer/seller experience
- The Ads Recommendation Quality team is a machine learning team in the Etsy Ads org that powers our promoted recommendation and discovery products. We aim to spark, inspire and expand buyers journeys on Etsy
- We use a suite of embeddings to increase relevance for where buyers are in the journey
- We make the ad experience more personalized to their buying intent
- We ensure that the ads put in front of the right buyers to increase buyer engagement
- We maintain an ads funnel pipeline that scales for our 90+ million buyers and sellers
- Work cross functionally with product, analytics, and engineering leadership to understand buyer and seller needs to drive technical solutions
- Manage team of machine learning engineers and scientists through prototyping, optimizing, and implementing large-scale ML models and systems
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture on your team through mentorship, development practices, and career growth opportunities
- Work closely with other engineering teams to ensure alignment and integration with other services and platforms
- 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 occasionally 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.
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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