Data Scientist, Product Analytics

Etsy•New York, NY

22h•$124,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Etsy is seeking an experienced Analytics professional to partner with the product squad building a best-in-class Ads experience for their sellers. This role will play a key part in advancing one of Etsy’s most critical seller-facing products: Etsy Ads. The position offers the opportunity to dive deep into behavioral analyses to better understand Etsy’s seller’s goals, as well as into the sophisticated machine learning models that power the Etsy Ads ecosystem. This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Analytics. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and competitive benefits. This role requires your presence in Etsy’s Brooklyn Office once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office. Data scientists at Etsy use rigorous methods to generate insights that inform product, marketing, engineering, and business decisions across the company. They collaborate with partner teams through all stages of development: uncovering opportunity areas, crafting experiments to test hypotheses, analyzing the impact of efforts, and highlighting takeaways. Learning new skills and techniques is a perk of the job, as the team looks for opportunities to grow. The team's mission is to guide partner teams with data and insights and tell the story of how they attract and retain users.

Requirements

2+ years experience as a data scientist or data analyst during which you extracted insights from large datasets
Experience in A/B experimentation and statistical analysis of experimental data
Mastery of SQL, and experience with R/Python and other scripting/automation techniques.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization software
Curious mindset to drive creative problem-solving and business impact
Proficiency in causal inference analysis is strongly preferred
Experience partnering with Machine-Learning squads is a plus
Experience in an e-Commerce setting is a plus

Responsibilities

Partner with squads across the Ads Initiative, whose focus is creating an Ads product that enables Etsy sellers to scale their business.
Design and analyze rigorous experiments, help teams set great hypotheses, and deliver robust analysis of experiment results.
Transform raw data into meaningful and impactful analysis characterized by strong data governance, technique transparency, and clear documentation.
Raise the skill level of the entire analytics team through the creation of outstanding work, mentorship, and the introduction of better practices, processes, and tools.
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.