Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Data Analytics, Data science techniques, Data Visualization, Design, Looker, Product Analytics, Python Programming, R Programming, SPARK Programming, SQL, Tableau, Teamwork

Job Description

This is a full-time position reporting to the Manager, Product Analytics. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. For this role, we are considering candidates based in Mexico who are either remote, flex, or office-based. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

• Data scientists at Etsy use rigorous methods to generate insights that inform product, engineering, and business decisions across the company. We collaborate with partner teams through all stages of development: actively uncovering opportunity areas, crafting experiments to test hypotheses, analyzing the impact of our efforts, and highlighting takeaways
• 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 our partner teams with data and insights and tell the story of how we attract and retain our users — to teams, to senior management, and to the community

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Partner with the Commit team, whose focus is motivating buyers to convert with relevant information at crucial moments in the customer journey.
• 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.
• Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should 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.

Qualifications

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• 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.
• Fluency in both English and Spanish
• Mastery of SQL and proficiency in R/Python. Passionate to try new approaches to advance your technical skills. Bonus points for experience with Spark and Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization software.
• Deep understanding of experimentation theory and practice.
• Specialize in sophisticated analyses and regularly use statistical methods in your work
• Distill highly complex problems into narratives that are concise, actionable, and memorable, and express your recommendations with both conviction and finesse.
• Guided product teams to identify high-impact opportunities, set meaningful goals against key outcomes, and driven decisions.
• 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 share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've 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 tell us what you're all about.