Back Market is hiring a
Senior Data Scientist

Summary

The job is for a Finance & Strategy Analytics expert at Back Market, a growing international refurbished electronics marketplace. The role involves analyzing, modeling, and influencing planning and capital allocation decisions to maximize the growth and profitability of the marketplace.

Requirements

• 5-8+ years of relevant industry experience
• A degree (Masters or PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Operations Research)
• Deep knowledge in forecasting, statistics, causal inference and experimentation
• A self-starter who understands the current and future business needs by working closely with stakeholders understand their needs
• Proactive in identifying trends, risks which may result in critical business impact, and driving root-cause analysis to identify opportunities & recommendations
• Tenacious about achieving results, and thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment
• Comfortable taking calculated, data-driven risks and using learnings to continue to pivot, evolve forecasting approaches
• Experience partnering with internal teams to drive action and providing expertise and direction on analytics, experimental design, and measurement
• Strong knowledge of SQL, Python and/or R

Responsibilities

• Analyze, model and influence our planning and capital allocation across markets, products and workstreams leveraging best practices in analytics and data science techniques
• Monitor internal and exogenous impacts on our business to provide regular intelligence and forward guidance to senior leadership as they plan and optimize performance
• Support strategic capital allocation decisions across our growth levers (including marketing, product, pricing, etc) by consolidating learnings from past experiments, developing your own causal models to help isolate the impact of each growth lever and policy changes
• Advance our understanding and prediction of customer and seller Lifetime Value (LTV)
• Explore the latest trends in forecasting and experimentation in marketplaces to identify new opportunities to better support growth
• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives working closely with business and engineering stakeholders as well as your peers within the Data community in Back Market
• Be a key driver of the business strategy, by thinking beyond immediate analysis to understand the long-term implications of actions

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in digital marketplaces and/or e-commerce are a plus

Benefits

• An attractive salary, equity and a host of benefits including lunch voucher, health insurance, relocation package, paid time off for activism in your community, parental benefits, flexible hours, etc…
• Remote friendly company : up to 3 days of remote work per week!
• One Loving Tribe: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment
• Be part of one of our Employee Resource Groups. created around shared identities, common backgrounds and/or special interests crafted to be a safe space and an expressive outlet
• Several internal events: The Monday Brief (weekly)/ The Somehands (monthly)/ The All Hands (annual)
• We’re here to SABOTAGE: It’s our mantra. It keeps us focused on what we aspire to be: a little bit sneaky, always smart, kinda frugal and constantly conspiring to create maximum impact