Etsy

Overview

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to join our XBuyer ML team to lead in how Etsy uses machine learning to connect buyers with the right items at the right moment, working across recommendations, personalization, and retrieval systems.

About Etsy

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world.

Requirements & Eligibility

• Ability to lead through influence, not just authority
• Experience working with engineering and science partners
• Strong background in product management and machine learning strategies

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with peer PMs and senior stakeholders to shape and contribute to the ML product strategy for buyer discovery.
• Navigate a matrixed structure with fluency: partner closely with engineering teams in Matching, Relevance, and Recommendations.
• Work in close partnership to define what signals matter, ensure those signals are captured well, and translate buyer behavior data into ML opportunities.
• Set the discovery approach for your workstreams: name the biggest risk to each bet and invalidate hypotheses before committing significant engineering investment.
• Partner deeply with ML engineers and applied scientists to prioritize, build, evaluate, and launch ML-driven solutions.
• Define and track outcome metrics that go beyond model quality to the buyer behavior and business outcomes.
• Drive prioritization conversations that balance the needs of multiple consuming teams.
• Analyze product performance, synthesize signals from analytics, research, and customer feedback.