Job Description

Use quantitative analysis and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand what drives our business Lead a team to develop models that provide insights to help business and product leaders understand marketplace dynamics, customer value, user behaviors, fraud activities, and long-term trends Hire, scale, and develop a team of data scientists Establish robust processes to select models to pursue in partnership with the business, drive follow through, and establish an operating rhythm to revisit and retrain models Collaborate with our machine learning engineering and data platforms teams on tooling and shared feature stores Get hands on to deploy prototype models into production that customize product experiences Evangelize data science techniques within the broader Analytics, Data Science, and Economics team and mentor others seeking to develop more advanced capabilities What it takes to catch our eye: A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain A strong track record of managing data science teams Experience working with user segmentation, cohort analyses, mix modeling, random forest, regression models, and other advanced techniques The insight to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way Passion for getting into the details Proficiency in Python Previous experience in a two-sided marketplace or ecommerce business