Senior Data Scientist, Back Market
Strategy & Capital Allocation
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
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Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To restore trust and desire for refurbished devices.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8+ years of relevant industry experience working in and 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
- Experience in digital marketplaces and/or e-commerce are a plus
What the job involves
- As an expert on all things that relate to forecasting and causal inference and measurement methodologies to support capital allocation decisions, you will be part of our Finance & Strategy Analytics team supporting strategic decisions to maximize the growth and profitability of our marketplace
- 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
Application process
- Initial interview with our Talent Acquisition team
- Tech Interview with Tom, Senior Data Scientist & Christophe, Head of Analytics & Insights - Finance & Strategy
- Team fit interview with Ian, VP Data Analytics & Insight
- Stakeholders interview with Senior management
- Back Market Values fit interview
Our take
At a time when new smartphones launch frequently but with fewer new features and when individuals want to contribute to sustainability and the circular economy, Back Market is setting out to provide customers with a viable option of purchasing refurbished electronics goods.
The vision of the company is to become the default choice when it comes to electronics purchases, irrespective of the customers' budget. In order to materialize this vision, Back Market guarantees that all the devices sold on its platform are 100% functional. The company screens sellers before allowing them to join its platform and it monitors their performance in real-time by collecting detailed customer feedback. By doing this, they hope to restore trust in refurbished devices and to make sustainability an easy, safe, and affordable choice.
Back Market operates in 16 counties and has a client roster that includes Netflix, Disney, BBC, Sony, and Apple. The company has raised over $1 billion in capital, which has been invested in expansion across new and current markets.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- An attractive salary that comes with equity options, health insurance, paid maternity and parental leave, 401K, commuter benefits, mental health support, and more,
- Flexible working hours and hybrid models that let you choose which days you to work in the office and at home (because work-life balance is an individual right)
- Professional development programs, internal mobility, and the opportunity to make your career what you want it to become
Company HQ
19th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, IDF
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Leadership
Previously Logistic Export Assistant at Devanlay Lacoste and Account manager at Neteven.
Vianney Vaute
(Chief Creative Officer)Previously Digital Strategist at Visual Link, Strategic Planner at BETC Paris and Strategist at Five by Five.
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