What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist - Product Analytics position at Whatnot?
Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We're re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we're building the future of online marketplaces-together.
From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.
And we're just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we're looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.
Role
Data Scientists at Whatnot bring technical expertise, analytical mindset and strong communication skills to solve problems and identify opportunities critical to the growth of Whatnot.They are active in the decision making process to align on business goals, analyze our data using appropriate techniques, identify opportunities and proactively communicate them across the organization. This role is part of the day-to-day and strategic future of the organization and you will play an active role in the decisions and direction of the domains you support.
You will :
- Define and own the KPIs that measure your domain of focus, which is prioritized based on a mixture of business need, personal experience and skill set
- Analyze business trends and key metrics to create actionable insights that drive growth, improve the experience of our community and enhance profitability.
- Partner closely across the business to find improvements / opportunities and influence decisions using data science methodologies and tools.
- Use our modern data stack to build data products and create production-quality dashboards to convey insights.
- Be active and embedded with cross-functional teams and partners. Listen to their issues, work as peers to identify the right problems and best solutions, and make data and analytics accessible to them.
- Define and advance the best practices for analytics, especially in your domain, to maximize user adoption and team effectiveness.
- Leverage experimentation, causal inference, and other statistical techniques to analyze problems in a complex ecosystem and forecast future needs of the company.
- Maintain existing measures and dashboards while bringing a continuous improvement approach to regularly evaluate the tools, methods and metrics we use in our analysis.
- Inform the engineering, operations, and machine learning roadmaps through analysis of marketplace, user behavior, and product trends.
Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City hub.
We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to be foundational members of our Data team! You will partner with our Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to systematically detect, measure, and action against fraud and other threats to Whatnot's platform.
You should have strong critical thinking and analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a knack for working across teams in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate must be adept in navigating the data stack and able to support initiatives in all facets from analytics / data engineering and product analytics to machine learning, ideally with previous experience in a role working directly with cross-functional stakeholders.
In addition to 3 years of experience in the Data field, you should have :
Compensation
For US-based applicants : $158,000 - $205,000 / year benefits restricted stock units
The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity in the form of stock options.
Benefits
Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.
Salary : $158,000 - $205,000
