Job Description

Company Description

As an Etsy employee, you can do the work you love, be yourself, and make an impact in the lives of millions. Our commitments to diversity and inclusion, team culture and the spaces where we work all reflect our mission to keep commerce human.

Job Description

The Product Analytics team is responsible for helping drive the success of product efforts at Etsy by providing actionable insights, industry-leading measurement techniques, and access to the metrics, data, and tools needed for decision-making and optimization. We partner with cross-functional peers through all stages of development: identifying initial opportunities, refining the user experience, analyzing the impact of our efforts, and highlighting improvement areas. Ultimately, the teams work strengthens Etsy and helps continuously improve the Etsy experience!

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 product with data-driven insights, telling the story of how we improve the experience for our users, to teams, to senior management, and to the community.

This role is part of our Analytics and Strategic Finance team, and has flexibility to be based in Brooklyn, NY or San Francisco, CA.

About the Role

* You will partner with our Search Product team to achieve results-oriented goals around search relevance and experience

* Play a meaningful role in deciding how we can best engage and grow Etsy users by determining and helping execute on opportunities for growth through analysis of behavioral and transactional data

* 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

Qualifications

* You have 6+ years experience as a data scientist or data analyst in which you have extracted meaning from big data sets with little engineering support. A PhD in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or related field is preferred.

* You have guided product teams to identify high-impact opportunities, set meaningful goals against key outcomes, and driven decisions. Experience working with Search and Machine Learning focused product teams is a plus.

* You have mastery of SQL and either R or Python, and you actively try new approaches to advance your technical skills. Bonus points for experience with the Hadoop ecosystem and Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization software.

* You specialize in sophisticated analyses and regularly use advanced statistical methods in your work.

* You distill highly complex problems into narratives that are concise, actionable, and memorable, and express your recommendations with both conviction and finesse.

* You are passionate about reproducible work and have picked up tools to this end; you have acted as a mentor, teaching others how to make their own work better and more efficient.

Additional Information

At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We welcome people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.