Job Description

The Product Analytics team is charged with driving 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. 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 team’s 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 is a full-time position located (eventually) in Brooklyn and part of our Analytics and Strategic Finance team. 

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About the Role

In this role you will:

You will partner with our Etsy Ads team to achieve results-oriented goals around the buyer and seller experience, as well as our bidding and ranking systems

Play a meaningful role in deciding how we can best engage and grow Etsy users 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

About You

Ideally you'll bring:

4 plus years experience as a data scientist or data analyst in which you have extracted meaning from large data sets with little engineering support

Guided product teams to identify high-impact opportunities, set meaningful goals against key outcomes, and driven decisions

Mastery of SQL, and experience with R/Python and other scripting/automation techniques; bonus points for experience with the Hadoop ecosystem and Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization software

You love trying new analytical approaches to answer nuanced questions and advance your skill set is important to you 

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

Deep understanding of experimentation theory and practice

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

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

Additional Information

What's Next

If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter and resume telling us why you'd be right for the position. As you’ve hopefully seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don’t want you to be like everyone else — we want you to be like you! So write to us and tell us what you’re all about.

Also point us to any online presence you may have (weblog, Twitter, Facebook, rap sheet), and if you write, draw, practice a craft, or contribute to something you’re proud of, that means a lot to us too. We would love to hear about it.

Our Promise

At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. 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, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and 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.