Director, Data Science (Revenue Analytics)

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote co-located team, we operate out of hubs within the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions from fashion, beauty, electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants. Whatnot has something for everyone.

And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been one of the fastest growing marketplaces and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

 

💻 Role

• Hire and lead the Revenue Analytics team focused on growing top and bottom line revenue 
• Build team roadmap to capture, analyze, and drive data driven decisions across core functions of the business and executive leadership
• Spearhead the strategic data driven vision that captures billion dollar GMV opportunities
• Own report building, insights generation, and data informed recommendations
• Organize and shape the collective understanding of business health and opportunities through various data sources both internal and external
• Act as cross functional leader guiding key decision making on high value initiatives

👋 About You

We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to be foundational members of our Data team! You will partner with our Category Expansion, Marketing, Finance, Operations and Logistics teams to identify critical goals for the business, develop a deep understanding of them, and design scalable solutions.

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 will be adept in navigating the data stack and able to support initiatives in all facets from data engineering and product analytics to machine learning and service deployments.

In addition to 8+ years of experience in the Data Analytics field and 4+ years of experience in a data leadership role, you should have:

• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills to stakeholders, leadership, and investors
• Demonstrated history of knowledge in Business Analysis, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or related technical fields
• Industry experience with proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on large scale data
• Proven track record of building and leading data science teams supporting International Expansion, Go To Market, Marketing, Finance, or Operations teams
• Ability to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and stakeholders
• Comfortability with data warehouses and big data technologies such as Redshift, Snowflake, Big Query, Presto, Athena, Spark, DBT
• Expert in using SQL for data analysis, reporting, and dashboarding
• Experience with a scripting language such as Python or R is a plus
• Firm grasp of visualization tools interactive and self-serving such as business intelligence and notebooks

💰Compensation

For Full-Time (Salary) US-based applicants: $240,000 - $320,000/year + benefits + equity

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.

🎁  Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• Monthly allowance on both food and wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• 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
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE

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.