Senior Data Scientist at Reverb

Company Description
Reverb is the largest online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling new, used, and vintage musical instruments. Since launching in 2013, Reverb has grown into a vibrant community of buyers and sellers all over the world. By focusing on inspiring content, price transparency, musician-focused eCommerce tools, a music-savvy customer service team, and more, Reverb has created an online destination where the global music community can connect over the perfect piece of music gear.
We believe that music makes the world a better place, which is why our mission is to make the world more musical. Sales on Reverb help support Reverb Gives, which provides youth music education programs across the world with instruments they need to make music.
Job Description
Reverb is a music gear marketplace, and we have a ton of data about music gear! These data come from over a decade's worth of listings, with varying degrees of structure and metadata. We’re looking for a Sr. Data Scientist to drive several projects to extract more useful information from those listings, as well as own the testing and measurement of any changes they make. We expect this is going to involve a significant amount of both supervised and unsupervised machine learning, as well as online controlled experimentation.
This role will report to a manager, but should require minimal direct supervision. You will be encouraged to lead and mentor more junior folks on the team as needed. We expect that strong candidates will have 4-7 years of meaningful experience, or an appropriate combination of a graduate degree and professional experience.
This position is based in Chicago and is open to fully remote or hybrid candidates.
This is a full-time position reporting to the Manager of Data Science of our Analytics team. For candidates located in NYC, San Jose, San Francisco, or Seattle, please visit this link for compensation information. For candidates in all other eligible locations, the base salary range will be $101,000 - $131,000 USD per year.
Primary Responsibilities
Partner with product and engineering teams to find opportunities to enrich our structured music gear data, using machine learning tools that you will developIterate on existing tooling for extracting information from and attribution information to our music gear listingsCollaborate in the development, execution, and analysis of A/B tests and other online experiments
Qualifications
Tools
Our ML stack is built on Anyscale and a combination of models built in PyTorch and open-sourced transformers from HuggingFaceWe’re primarily a Python shop for data science workMost SQL-related work will involve Redshift; we use dbt for transformationWe share most analyses via data visualization tools, specifically Looker and AmplitudeWe use Slack, GitHub, Atlassian tools (like JIRA and Confluence), and Google GSuite (like sheets, slides, docs, and drive) to communicate, share, and document
Additional Information
Reverb offers compensation packages that include base, bonus, and equity in the form of Etsy restricted stock units. Some of our key benefits include but are not limited to the following:
100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and all eligible dependents. Medical coverage includes gender affirming care.Life, AD&D, and supplemental long-and short-term disability insuranceA matching 401(k)A generous PTO policy that includes vacation, sick/mental health days plus 11 paid holidays and two floating holidaysProfessional development and continued learning opportunities through access to mentoring, 1:1 coaching, and platforms like Skillsoft, LinkedIn Learning and Codecademy 18 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave for the birth or adoption of a childUp to $25,000 reimbursement of adoption and/or surrogacy related expensesPaid sabbatical program$1,000 annual work/life stipendAccess to free supplemental online mental health services and meditation apps Ways to give back to your community through a charitable contribution match and volunteer time off
At Reverb, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant and resilient company. We welcome people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Reverb is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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