Data Scientist, Etsy
Product Analytics
$124-160k
Plus equity package and an annual performance bonus
Office located in Brooklyn, New York
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Be an early applicant
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$124-160k
Plus equity package and 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
- 2+ years experience as a data scientist or data analyst in which you have independently extracted meaning from big data sets with little engineering support
- Mastery of SQL and proficiency in R/Python. Passionate to try new approaches to advance your technical skills. Bonus points for experience with Spark and Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization software
- Deep understanding of experimentation theory and practice
- Specialize in sophisticated analyses and regularly use statistical methods in your work
- Distill highly complex problems into narratives that are concise, actionable, and memorable, and express your recommendations with both conviction and finesse
- Guided product teams to identify high-impact opportunities, set meaningful goals against key outcomes, and driven decisions
- Passionate about reproducible work and have picked up tools to this end
- Acted as a mentor, guiding others to make their own work better and more efficient
What the job involves
- Join us as a Data Scientist, Product Analytics and play a pivotal role in redefining Etsy’s search experience. Working with the product and engineering teams, you’ll transform how buyers browse and find what they love—helping create meaningful connections between people and the products that matter to them
- Leveraging behavioral data and modern AI tools, you’ll uncover insights faster, guide product strategy, and accelerate user engagement and growth
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Analytics
- Data scientists at Etsy use rigorous methods to generate insights that inform product, marketing, engineering, and business decisions across the company
- We collaborate with partner teams through all stages of development: actively uncovering opportunity areas, crafting experiments to test hypotheses, analyzing the impact of our efforts, and highlighting takeaways
- Learning new skills and techniques is not only a requirement but a perk of the job! We are always looking for opportunities to grow. Our mission is to guide our partner teams with data and insights and tell the story of how we attract and retain our users — to teams, to senior management, and to the community
- Partner closely with the Search team to shape how millions of buyers discover Etsy—crafting a browsing experience that surfaces the most relevant, inspiring finds at just the right moments
- Turn behavioral and transactional data into actionable insights that inform product decisions and drive user engagement and marketplace growth
- Design and evaluate rigorous experiments, helping teams frame strong hypotheses and delivering clear, trustworthy readouts that influence direction
- Translate complex, raw data into meaningful analysis—grounded in strong data governance, transparent methods, and well-documented work others can build on
- Elevate the broader analytics community through mentorship, high-quality work, and by introducing better practices, tools, and ways of working
- 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
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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