Senior Data Scientist, Ads Marketplace
About The Position
As a Senior Data Scientist on the Ads Marketplace team, you will uncover insights that shape the strategy behind Etsy Ads, one of our most important seller-facing products. You will help us understand how to maximize the value of sellers’ advertising budgets while balancing outcomes across our marketplace. In this role, you will partner closely with product managers, engineers, and applied scientists, connecting the dots between customer problems and the technical details of our models and systems. We are looking for someone who understands how to weigh opportunities, create unique insights, and bring analytical depth to a highly technical domain. This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Manager, Analytics.
Requirements
- 4+ years experience as a data scientist or data analyst in which you have independently extracted meaning from big data sets with little engineering support.
- 1+ year of experience as an data scientist or data analyst developing, evaluating, or analyzing the performance of machine learning models.
- Successful track record of guiding product teams to identify high-impact opportunities, set meaningful goals against key outcomes, and data-driven decisions.
- Experience working in a two sided market places environment.
- Mastery of SQL and proficiency in R/Python.
- Passionate to try new approaches to advance your technical skills.
- Experience with crafting and analyzing online experiments with a good understanding of A/B testing.
- Ability to conduct sophisticated analyses and regularly use advanced statistical methods (ex. Propensity Score Matching, Causal Impact, Regression Models) in your work.
- Comfortable with distilling complex insights into compelling narratives for senior executives, both verbally and visually.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with the Spark ecosystem
- Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization software
Responsibilities
- Lead all analytical aspects of the product lifecycle from sizing opportunities all the way through to measuring success via experimentation for machine learning squads.
- Work closely and collaboratively with the Ads Marketplace leads to define key analysis questions.
- Use rigorous methods to conduct analysis and produce insights to improve the models that power Etsy Ads.
- Define metrics to ensure robust measurement of product performance.
Benefits
- equity package
- annual performance bonus
- competitive benefits that support you and your family
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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