Information about the position

You'll become part of the Trust's Detection team, with a mission to protect the Vinted community from harmful content. The Detection team in the Trust domain is engaged in detecting, understanding, and stopping dangerous or inappropriate content and behaviour within the Vinted Marketplace. As a Decision Scientist embedded in a product team, you will be part of a cross-functional team and drive quality decisions by bringing actionable insights from data.
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:

• Analytics Engineers are responsible for data curation – translating data needs from stakeholders into architecting, building and maintaining efficient & reliable data models and pipelines.
• Decision Scientists are responsible for generating actionable insights and identifying and scoping opportunities. They maintain and contribute to 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 the identification of algorithmic opportunities, ensuring those opportunities are addressed in an optimal fashion and designing, developing and maintaining production-grade statistical and machine learning algorithms.

In this position, you'll

• Be your team's primary point of contact to provide answers to data-related questions.
• Ensure these questions are answered in an optimal fashion (e.g. in the form of an ad hoc deep-dive, experiment, dashboard, or automatically recurring analysis).
• Work alongside other decision scientists to detect and investigate specific fraud patterns.
• Collaborate with your team and stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities and answer critical business questions.
• Own the key performance indicators for a team, including selection, tracking, forecasting, and proactively flagging issues.
• Enable your team and direct stakeholders to independently leverage data for business insights via self-serving and dashboarding tools (such as Looker).
• Define the requirements for A/B testing and analyse the results of A/B tests.

About you

• Strong proven experience in Data Analytics, having led Analytics projects end-end
• Statistical proficiency (Bonus if you have A/B testing experience)
• A good communicator who can present complex topics clearly and persuasively to different audiences.
• Strong analytical, strategic, and business skills.
• A degree in statistics, physics, econometrics, economics, business or a similar field.
• Proficient in SQL & Python and experience with dashboarding tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, etc.)
• Advantage: experience with Machine Learning classification models.
• Advantage: experience working in the Trust & Safety or Fraud-related area.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Newest Mac Book models
• 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
• Class Pass (Gym Membership subsidy)
• Pension plan with a total contribution of 12%, 8% by the Company and 4% by employee
• 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 the 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 €61,200 - €82,800 gross per year.