Information about the position

As our new Decision Scientist, you will become a part of the cross-functional product team that is responsible for building the strategy and the product for our new professional sellers segment. This segment includes sole traders, thrift stores, vintage traders and others. You and your team will explore this business opportunity, identify user needs, and look for new and improved solutions to help our professional members be successfully integrated into the platform while still keeping the experience for individual non-professional members great. It is an exciting role where you will be co-creating a totally new proposition for Vinted.

As a Decision Scientist you will uncover data insights to shape our strategy, help set our ambitious growth targets, and do deep-dives on the performance. We're looking for someone who likes to work in a fast-changing environment, is willing to pick up new contexts, and is passionate about the mission we're on and the product we're building together.

Within Data Science & Analytics (DSA) we have three distinct roles. We believe that each role can make a similarly sized business impact in different ways and therefore our salary ranges are the same for all three roles.

To understand your role within DSA context better, here are brief descriptions of each role we have in the department:

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

Analytics Engineers are responsible for data curation – translating data needs from stakeholders into architecting, building and maintaining efficient & reliable data models and pipelines.

In this position, you'll

• Collaborate with your team and direct stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities and answer key business questions
• Ensure these questions are answered in an optimal fashion (e.g. in the form of an ad hoc deep-dive, growth model, experiment, dashboard, or automatically recurring analysis)
• Analyse identified opportunities to understand their scope and impact
• Define and own the key performance indicators, including selection, tracking, forecasting, reporting, and proactively flagging issues
• Enable your team and direct stakeholders to independently leverage data for business insights via self-serving and dashboarding tools
• Ensure features developed and owned by the team have appropriate tracking set-up
• Define the requirements for (A/B) testing, ensure the features have appropriate tracking, and analyse the results of tests and experiments

About you

• 3+ years experience working or equivalent experience as a Decision Scientist, Data Analyst, Product Analyst or a Strategic role with a strong data component, or alternative activities resulting in a similar level of proficiency
• BSc or MSc in Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Econometrics, or another related field (equivalent working experience is also acceptable)
• Statistical proficiency (e.g. A/B testing, regression analysis)
• Programming experience (Python/Spark/Scala/R)
• Proficient in SQL and experience with dashboarding tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, etc.)
• Highly business-oriented
• A good communicator who can present complex topics clearly and persuasively to different audiences
• Ability to deal with uncertainty and to combine data insights with strategic thinking
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Advantage: experience working in (data-driven) strategy
• Note that if you don't recognise yourself in everything listed above, you might still be an excellent candidate for this position! At Vinted, we are committed to your growth and development.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Frequent team-building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• A daily lunch allowance
• ClassPass (Gym Membership subsidy)
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• An NS mobility card
• 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 10-13.2% 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.

The salary range for this position is €45,000 - €69,000 gross per year.

If this sounds interesting – you may well be just who we need.