Senior Manager of Inventory Data
Remote
New York, Remote (US, Canada)
$239,000 - $311,000/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
Equity (offers vary by country)
401K matching/Pension contributions
Performance bonuses
About the role
Who you are
- 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!
- Extensive hands-on experience with internal tools supporting high volume within large codebases
- Proven ability to work with non-engineering teams (Product, Design, Analytics) to build end-to-end systems, utilizing A/B testing for product updates
- Skilled in coaching and mentoring engineers, shaping team processes for effective delivery, and setting technical strategy
- Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills, comfortable working with diverse collaborators
- Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Redux) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), including containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
- 5+ years of experience in people management
- Ability to make data-driven decisions, promote high-quality technical decision-making, and excel in an experimentation and metrics-driven environment
- Leads effective documentation and demonstrates dedication to the company's vision, mission, and values
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 relationships with product engineers, product managers, user researchers, designers, analysts as well as platform, data, and infrastructure teams to understand user needs and translate them into technical solutions that improve user outcomes
- Set clear team goals, prioritize projects, and ensure timely delivery of features and improvements; monitor system performance and work proactively to identify and resolve related issues
- Take part in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring and on-boarding exceptional engineering talent
- Serve as a coach, mentor, and advocate for the engineers on your team
- Work with other leaders within engineering to develop and evolve engineering processes and standard methodologies
- Leverage established tools built by our enablement teams and help create new paved paths within product engineering context
- This is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
The application process
- If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like
- We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about
Benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
About Etsy
Software Development
5001-10,000
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. Etsy Inc. employees – whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, or Depop – tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.
Founded in 2005, Etsy is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY with additional offices in Dublin and Mexico City. As of December 31, 2023, our marketplaces connect 9 million active sellers – including 7 million on Etsy.com, 80% of whom are women – and 96 million active buyers in nearly every country in the world. In 2023, we facilitated over $13 billion in transactions.
Senior Manager of Inventory Data
Remote
New York, Remote (US, Canada)
$239,000 - $311,000/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
Equity (offers vary by country)
401K matching/Pension contributions
Performance bonuses
About the role
Who you are
- 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!
- Extensive hands-on experience with internal tools supporting high volume within large codebases
- Proven ability to work with non-engineering teams (Product, Design, Analytics) to build end-to-end systems, utilizing A/B testing for product updates
- Skilled in coaching and mentoring engineers, shaping team processes for effective delivery, and setting technical strategy
- Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills, comfortable working with diverse collaborators
- Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Redux) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), including containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
- 5+ years of experience in people management
- Ability to make data-driven decisions, promote high-quality technical decision-making, and excel in an experimentation and metrics-driven environment
- Leads effective documentation and demonstrates dedication to the company's vision, mission, and values
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 relationships with product engineers, product managers, user researchers, designers, analysts as well as platform, data, and infrastructure teams to understand user needs and translate them into technical solutions that improve user outcomes
- Set clear team goals, prioritize projects, and ensure timely delivery of features and improvements; monitor system performance and work proactively to identify and resolve related issues
- Take part in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring and on-boarding exceptional engineering talent
- Serve as a coach, mentor, and advocate for the engineers on your team
- Work with other leaders within engineering to develop and evolve engineering processes and standard methodologies
- Leverage established tools built by our enablement teams and help create new paved paths within product engineering context
- This is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
The application process
- If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like
- We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about
Benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
About Etsy
Software Development
5001-10,000
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. Etsy Inc. employees – whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, or Depop – tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.
Founded in 2005, Etsy is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY with additional offices in Dublin and Mexico City. As of December 31, 2023, our marketplaces connect 9 million active sellers – including 7 million on Etsy.com, 80% of whom are women – and 96 million active buyers in nearly every country in the world. In 2023, we facilitated over $13 billion in transactions.