Etsy is looking to improve the buyer experience and grow its user base through data-driven decision making
Requirements
- Mastery of SQL
- Proficiency in R/Python
- Experience with Spark and Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization software (bonus points)
- Deep understanding of experimentation theory and practice
- Specialize in sophisticated analyses and regularly use statistical methods in your work
- Passionate to try new approaches to advance your technical skills
- Experience with big data sets and little engineering support
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Core Buyer group to improve the buyer-facing experience
- Design and analyze rigorous experiments to test 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
- Play a meaningful role in deciding how we can best engage and grow Etsy users through analysis of behavioral and transactional data
- Help teams set great hypotheses and deliver robust analysis of experiment results
- Design and analyze experiments to test hypotheses
Other
- 4+ years experience as a data scientist or data analyst
- Ability to distill highly complex problems into narratives that are concise, actionable, and memorable
- Ability to express 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
