Senior Data Scientist, Discovery Ecosystem

About Whatnot

Whatnot is a leading livestream shopping platform and marketplace, revolutionizing the future of ecommerce by integrating community, shopping, and entertainment. As a remote-first company, we operate across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Germany, focusing on live auctions in various categories such as sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Discovery Ecosystem team. This role involves partnering with Product Engineering teams to enhance the discovery of live streaming content, product listings, and seller stores. You will work closely with teams across Discovery, Search, Ads, and Community to leverage data science methodologies and tools to drive improvements and identify opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leads across various teams to find improvements and opportunities using data science methodologies.
• Balance the needs across buyer demand, seller supply, and new product categories.
• Develop actionable KPIs linking Northstar metrics to daily operations.
• Create production-quality dashboards and notebooks to convey insights for strategy and opportunities.
• Analyze marketplace, user behavior, and industry trends to improve engineering roadmaps.
• Guide and improve experimentation practices to make informed decisions on feature rollouts.
• Define and advance company best practices within a data-informed culture.

About You

We are looking for intellectually curious and highly motivated individuals to be foundational members of our Data team. You should have strong critical thinking and analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a knack for working across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the Data field, with 3+ years supporting search and discovery systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on large-scale data.
• Experience with data warehouses and big data technologies such as Redshift, Snowflake, Big Query, Presto/Trino, Athena, Spark, DBT.
• Expert in using SQL for data analysis, reporting, and dashboarding.
• Experience with a scripting language such as Python or R.
• Strong skills in goal setting, driver and cohort analysis.
• Proficiency in visualization tools, both interactive and self-serving.

Compensation

• Salary Range: $180,000 - $275,000/year
• Equity: Available
• Benefits: Comprehensive package including health insurance, retirement plans, and various allowances.

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• $1,000 home office setup allowance
• $150 monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• $450 monthly allowance on food
• $500 monthly allowance for wellness
• $5,000 annual allowance towards Childcare
• $20,000 lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Parental Leave: 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work

Equal Opportunity Employer

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and 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.