What's the Role?

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to join our Marketing Analytics team, supporting Etsy’s Performance Marketing and Marketing Technology teams with a focus on feed based marketing!

In addition to a competitive 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 the United Kingdom. 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?

The Marketing Analytics team helps drive the success of marketing efforts at Etsy by providing meaningful insights, industry-leading measurement techniques, and access to the metrics, data, and tools needed for decision-making and optimization.

Our mission is to demystify marketing with insights grounded in data, telling the story of how we attract and retain our users to teams, to senior management, and to the community. We partner with our peers in marketing, analytics, research, product, engineering, and finance 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.

As a key member of the analytics team, you will focus on optimising and expanding Etsy’s Google Shopping offering, which is critical for buyers to discover Etsy. This position will focus on understanding complex bidding dynamics, developing and refining testing techniques, and working closely with marketing and technology teams to drive efficiency and scale .

Learning new skills and techniques is not only a requirement but a perk of the job. We are always looking for opportunities to improve. Our mission is to demystify marketing with insights grounded in data, telling 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?

• Investigating areas of opportunity across bidding and auction strategies, campaign performance and buyer experience to drive efficiency and growth.

• Lead experimentation for new ideas to optimize performance marketing and use rigorous analysis to guide our marketing team’s investment decision making.

• Work cross functionally with marketing and engineering teams and communicate your ideas and results to analytics and marketing stakeholders.

• Continually evaluate and refine your understanding of channel and feed marketing dynamics as well as measurement and testing design, sharing what you learn with the team.

• 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.

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• 6+ years of proven experience as a data scientist/analyst or in a quantitative role in which you have direct experience with MarTech and Performance Marketing teams.

• Strong, independent, analytical problem solver who enjoys applying statistical techniques in addressing real-world problems.

• Mastery of SQL (experience with BigQuery preferred) and advanced proficiency in R/Python required. Bonus points for experience with Looker, Looker Studio or other data visualization software.

• Passionate about subjects such as experimental design, time series modeling, and causal inference.

• Comfortable communicating technical findings clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.