Data Science - Analyst 4

eBay•Bellevue, WA

About The Position

The Shipping Analytics team drives eBay’s shipping initiatives through data-driven insights, advanced analytics, AI, and experimentation. The role is a hands-on analytics individual contributor position that also leads a small team across high-impact initiatives in eBay’s shipping ecosystem. The analyst will use data, experimentation, and AI to help launch and scale managed shipping solutions, optimize carrier routing, improve delivery performance, and increase adoption of eBay labels. Working with Product, Business, Finance, and Engineering partners, the role translates complex logistics data into strategies that improve reliability, reduce cost, and grow label profitability globally. The position applies advanced analytics, AI, and experimentation to improve domestic and cross-border shipping; optimizes eBay’s managed shipping and label platform; builds predictive models and carrier rate simulations; identifies customer pain points in seller shipping and label purchase journeys; designs and evaluates experiments; and develops scalable data pipelines, dashboards, and AI-powered monitoring solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or another quantitative field.
At least 8 years of experience in data science, analytics, or a related quantitative role.
Track record of independently leading high-impact initiatives end to end.
Strong technical skills in SQL, Excel, and data visualization tools.
Working knowledge of Python or R.
Experience in product analytics, experimentation, A/B testing, and causal inference.
Ability to translate analysis into business action.
Demonstrated success applying data science, optimization, and AI techniques to drive measurable business impact.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across Product, Engineering, Finance, and business teams in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree or MBA.
Familiarity with modern AI tools and LLMs.
Experience in logistics, shipping operations, or carrier performance analytics.

Responsibilities

Apply advanced analytics, AI, and experimentation to solve complex business problems and improve eBay’s domestic and cross-border shipping experience.
Drive growth and optimization of eBay’s managed shipping and label platform by defining success metrics, measuring impact, and identifying opportunities to scale globally.
Build predictive models and carrier rate simulations to improve shipping cost, delivery speed, reliability, and sustainability across carrier networks.
Identify friction in the seller shipping and label purchase journey, uncover customer pain points, and recommend product and business improvements that increase label adoption.
Design, execute, and evaluate experiments to inform decisions on product features, pricing, and policy, and partner cross-functionally to turn insights into measurable outcomes.
Develop scalable data pipelines, dashboards, and AI-powered monitoring solutions to enable faster decisions, improve operational visibility, and detect performance issues in real time.
Lead a small team across high-impact shipping initiatives while operating as a hands-on individual contributor.