Senior Manager, Inventory Data

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.

Salary Range:

$239,000.00 - $311,000.00

What’s the role?

 Etsy is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team that increases the quality and accuracy of our Inventory data by maintaining a clear and consistent classification system. You’ll help deliver an enriched understanding of our inventory, enabling millions of buyers to find the items that meet their shopping mission.

You’ll do this by helping deliver robust, scalable, full-stack products with updates grounded in experiments that will A/B tested live on Etsy.com. Your team will test new ideas, respond to seller research, and ship delightful solutions that support sellers in providing more complete and accurate information about their inventory. Staying at the forefront of technology, you’ll bring ideas that enable your team to rapidly iterate while maintaining a high bar for quality.

Does working on both internal tools and external facing releases to help sellers merchandise their unique offerings to reach the buyers who love their work sound exciting to you? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a full-time position reporting to a Director of Engineering within the Inventory & Fulfillment Systems team, which focuses on high impact improvements for connecting buyers to items that meet their shopping mission and supports sellers in meeting buyer expectations. 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 and Canada. 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?

This team plays an important role in matching buyers with items that meet their shopping missions by supporting our sellers in ensuring that every item in our catalog can be easily found, understood, and trusted. Here’s a glimpse of the type of problems you’ll help solve:

• Establish a clear, scalable, and standards-aligned taxonomy that improves product classification, enhances buyer discovery, supports merchandising efforts, and sets a strong foundation for long-term discovery strategy and tooling.

• Identify listings that do not meet our quality standards for classification and support sellers in re-classifying their items.

• Enable sellers to better articulate the breadth of options they offer to buyers in ways that are easily discoverable such as expanding the granularity of choices and specifications available to describe products and enabling buyers to choose from a range of offerings.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Lead the engineering team within the context of product engineering, establishing effective processes that increase collaboration across disciplines. 

• Lead a fast paced, data-driven, and agile team of 8 engineers to build systems that measurably improve the marketplace taxonomy and listing data in close partnership with product teams.

• Establish strong cross-functional relationship