Data Analyst / Decision Scientist, Buyer Intelligence

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Brief info about Vinted

Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 22 markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.

The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.

Information about the position

As a Decision Scientist in Buyer Intelligence, you will become part of the Buyer domain with a mission to improve our search engines, product categories, discovery channels, and listing journeys. You will join a small group of Decision Scientists in our Intelligence Team and the company-wide science and analytics guild. Your focus will be on leveraging data to ensure that the Buyer domain is moving in the direction of greatest positive impact.

Buyer Intelligence is the data analytics and science hub for the domain. The team is composed of decision scientists and analytics engineers who support different teams in the Buyer domain with data insights, research, and data products. These efforts enable faster experimentation and product development. We are looking for someone who enjoys working in a fast-changing environment, is willing to switch contexts by contributing to the domain’s goals and projects based on priorities, and is passionate about the product we are building together.

• Analytics Engineers are responsible for data curation – translating data needs from stakeholders into architecting, building and maintaining efficient & reliable data models and pipelines.
• Decision Scientists are responsible for actionable insights, identifying and sizing opportunities, and automated tools that increase the quality of product and business decisions by applying statistical methods and data-driven decision making.
• Data Scientists are responsible for identification of algorithmic opportunities, ensuring those opportunities are addressed in an optimal fashion and design, development and maintenance of production-grade statistical and machine learning algorithms.

In this position, you’ll

• Collaborate with your team and direct stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities, answer key business questions, and improve and maintain data products
• Analyse identified opportunities to understand their scope and impact
• Propose and implement key metrics that measure business performance, set up monitoring, and proactively flag issues
• Ensure requests are answered in an optimal manner (e.g., in the form of an ad hoc deep dive, experiment, dashboard, or automatically recurring analysis)
• Contribute to company-wide forecasting of core business metrics
• Enable your team and direct stakeholders to independently leverage data for business insights via self-service and dashboarding tools (i.e., Looker)
• Help create a backlog with prioritised hypotheses and analyses

About you

• Entry to intermediate experience in the field of data analytics, typically 2+ years of work experience or equivalent proficiency
• Fluent in SQL and working experience in Python
• Statistical proficiency, including A/B testing and regression analysis
• Analytically curious with strong business acumen and strategic thinking
• Highly results-oriented and comfortable with iterative processes
• Experience with dashboarding tools such as Looker, Tableau, etc.
• Excellent at communicating in written and spoken English
• Advantage: Working experience with Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, dbt, etc.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Free access to an office gym
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• On-site canteen serving delicious homemade food at discount prices
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted

Individual Learning Budget

Vinted will set aside a yearly sum equal to 13.2% of your annual salary to be invested in your continuous professional development. You’ll be able to take the initiative to use it for covering relevant learning activities that benefit your role.

Hybrid Work

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.