Data Science Lead - Analyst 5

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About the team and the role:

At eBay, we are building the most personalized global marketplace, powered by eBay Memory, an AI-driven system that continuously learns buyer and seller preferences across surfaces. Buyers will feel "understood" and sellers will reach the right audience effortlessly.

We are seeking a hands-on Lead Data Scientist to support the most critical components in eBay Memory - Ranking & Retrieval in Search. In this role, you will focus on optimizing eBay's personalized and contextualized search experience, driving meaningful connections between buyers and sellers. You will have the outstanding opportunity to shape the eBay Memory & Search roadmap through your insights, experimentation, and thought leadership. Your work will directly influence how millions of people discover and interact with items on eBay. As a people and project leader, you will lead and mentor a team of at least three data scientists, providing technical guidance, setting clear priorities, and ensuring high standards of execution and delivery. You will be responsible for developing team capabilities, managing end-to-end projects, and driving excellence in both outcomes and collaboration.

With a vision to find opportunities to drive ground-breaking change in the customer experience and result in significant business growth, we mine the largest datasets in the world of e-Commerce and use best in class analytic and big data techniques to extract impactful insights. We achieve this by partnering closely with the product and engineering teams, and resolve opportunities that are accretive to the product roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of at least three data scientists, providing technical guidance, setting priorities, and ensuring high-quality execution and delivery.
• Conduct, analyze, and deep dive into A/B tests and provide actional recommendations on improving the search features.
• Perform statistical analysis and modelling of customer's behavioral data to identify opportunities to build new search features solving for key pain-points in search user journey
• Identify new growth opportunities and provide actionable recommendations by leveraging insights across behavioral data, customer research and data science.
• Decode and validate web tracking to analyze user behaviors around new features.
• Develop metrics to measure product success and guide product roadmap.
• Drive self-serve for commonly used metrics by building dashboards and onboarding metrics to Experimentation Platform.

To be successful in this role:

• Master's degree in Statistics, Applied Econometrics, Math, Physics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering or other related core sciences or equivalent.
• 6+ years relevant professional experience.
• Experience with site experimentation (A/B testing).
• Demonstrated success in people leadership or end-to-end complex project management, with the ability to remainhands-on in technical execution and day-to-day detailswhile operating at a strategic level.
• You would have to strike a balance between critical thinking and actual hands-on analyses using tools & packages such as SQL, R, Python, Tableau etc.
• You possess super strong technical skills to turn big data in Hadoop into practical insights. At the same time, you also have the ability to think about the big picture and connect the dots to evaluate how the insights impact eBay's ecosystem.
• In addition to delivering insights on existing Product & Tech initiatives, you will come up with innovative product growth opportunities based on insights, and build momentum through influence.
• Proactive collaboration and effective communication are needed.
• Flexible and capable of working across multiple time zones.

Additionally, the following background and experience is helpful:

• Prior experience in Search and understand how a search engine works.
• Consistent track record of turning insights into product growth opportunities in prior roles with increasing scope and responsibilities.
• Ability to present complex analyses and insights effectively in simple terms.
• Good experience with both descriptive and inferential statistics.
• Experience in a leading technology company.
• Background in e-commerce product experience.
• Experience with Natural Language Processing or LLM/GenAI is a plus.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:
$170,400 - $227,500

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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