Whatnot
Data Scientist, Finance & Payments
San Francisco, CA ยท Senior
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About the role
- ๐ Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
- We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes.
- The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of finance and engineering, prioritizing speed and utility over complex statistical modeling.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely across the business to find improvements/opportunities and influence decisions using data science and analytics methodologies and tools.
- Act as the data partner for Finance functions, including but not limited to payments, strategic finance, profitability, accounting, and the executive office.
- Build high impact data products, dashboards, notebooks, and actionable KPIs to convey critical financial insights.
- Drive incremental improvements in contribution margin by deeply understanding business drivers and analyzing cross-functional initiatives.
- Collaborate on data and analytics work to ensure financial tools and datasets are enriched, reliable, and scalable.
- Work From Home Support
- All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product.
- We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
Compensation
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
Benefits
- Bonus points for D3, React or Web app development.
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Parental Leave
Company info
- As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia.
- We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection.
- Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our LA, NYC, Seattle or SF hub. ๐ You We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals with a strong background in data tooling and visualization.
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