Senior Applied Scientist II, Experimentation Insights

Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee, whether a team member of Etsy or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

What’s the role?

We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist II to join our Experimentation Insights team and help shape the future of experimentation at Etsy. In this role, you’ll bring deep expertise in statistics and causal inference to help us answer complex questions about what works, what doesn’t, and why. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and other data teams to support high-impact experiments and contribute to evolving our internal experimentation methodology.

The technology we build spans the full stack end to end; from user experience, to API design, backend service development, and database design. Depending on the needs of the business, our team may need to move up and down the stack, and in many cases collaborate with other teams to get to what needs to be done

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Experimentation Insights. 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 the United States. Candidates living within commutable distance of Etsy’s Brooklyn Office Hub or in the San Francisco Bay Area may be the first to be considered. For candidates within commutable distance, Etsy requires in-office attendance once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more details about our  work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

• The experimentation team’s vision is to empower everyone at Etsy to learn from their experiments and it builds the centralized experimentation platform used by various teams at Etsy.

• The team is made up of engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists.

• As the engineering arm of the team, our vision is to provide a robust experimentation platform where it’s easy and fast to build new features.

• The experimentation insights team contains both software engineers and data scientists, aiming to ensure experimenters can get trustworthy and actionable insights from their experiments in a timely manner. 

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Develop and enhance statistical models and methodologies for the experimentation platform used by Etsy.

• Collaborate with engineering partners to ensure our ETLs and experiment pipelines are accurate, trustworthy, and scalable.

• Provide statistical guidance and support to teams across Etsy on experimental design and measurement strategies.

• Contribute to documentation, education, and tooling to make experimentation more accessible across the company.

• Champion and evolve best practices in experimentation and measurement.

• 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:

• You have an advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Econometrics, or a related quantitative field.

• You bring 5+ years of experience in applying statistical methods in a production environment. It is preferred if you have experience working on experimentation platforms before.