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Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life - or even a third.\nThe Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:\nVinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.\nVinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.\nVinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.\nFounded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people. \nInformation about the position \nAs a Decision Scientist in the Search Relevance team within the Buyer domain, you will partner with Data Scientists, Engineers, and a Product Manager to improve how members search our catalog and maximize buyer conversion.\nThe Buyer domain is organized across three layers of product teams: the Experience layer (Discovery & Rediscovery, Search & Refinement), the Content layer (Search Relevance, Recommender Relevance, Content Visibility Management), and the Platform layer (Search Platform, Content Visibility Platform). Together, these teams ensure members find relevant items effortlessly across millions of unique second-hand listings.\nWithin Search Relevance, our scope spans the entire search journey: from semantic and keyword retrieval (including Dense Retrieval vector search) to multi-stage ML ranking (pre-ranking, deep reranking, and personalization). In this role, you will collaborate with your Product Manager, a senior Decision Scientist, and the engineering team to lead analytical discovery, identify search friction and opportunity areas, define success metrics, and design and evaluate A/B experiments measuring the business and member impact of our ranking and retrieval algorithms.\nYou will also be part of the Buyer Decision Science community, collaborating quarterly on technical standards, domain-wide analyses, and experimentation capabilities. Additionally, you will participate in Vinted’s company-wide Data Science & Analytics (DSA) guild, which regularly hosts knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, and off-sites.\nIn this position, you’ll \nCollaborate closely with your Product Manager, Data Scientists, and Engineers to uncover search improvement opportunities, size their potential, and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations.\nFormulate testable hypotheses, establish tracking requirements, and analyze online experiments to measure the causal impact of new retrieval and ranking algorithms on buyer conversion and engagement.\nDefine and monitor metrics and experiment guardrails for Search Relevance, proactively investigating anomalies and diagnosing root causes behind their movements.\nBuild and maintain reliable, intuitive dashboards (e.g. in Looker) that enable your team and cross-functional stakeholders to track search health and feature performance independently.\nEnsure team initiatives have clear success criteria and decision rules before launch. \nAbout you \nHighly oriented toward business results and actionable recommendations.\nGood communicator who can present results in an informative and persuasive manner to a wide range of stakeholders.\nExperience as a Decision Scientist, Data Analyst or Data Scientist.\nExperience with A/B testing and product development.\nKnowledge of at least one statistical programming language (Python, R, Scala, etc.)\nProficient in SQL and dashboarding tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, etc.)\nYou are passionate about applying data analytics and excited to use intelligent tools and techniques to uncover insights, improve decision-making and solve real-world business problems.\nUniversity degree in statistics, econometrics, economics, business, or a related field.\nExcellent written and spoken English skills.\nAdvantage: Experience with search, ranking or retrieval-based algorithms.\nWork perks \nThe opportunity to benefit from our share options programme\n30 days of paid annual leave\nNewest MacBook models\nDigital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)\nHome office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture\nLunch benefit per your workday\nFrequent team-building events\nA personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted\nAccess to a discounted gym membership plan\nPension Plan with Vinted matching 150% of your chosen contribution\nSupplemental Private Health Insurance\nLife and Disability insurance\nA subsidised Deutschlandticket for your commute to the office by public transport\nThe opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation\nA dog-friendly office\nWorking at Vinted \nIndividual Learning Budget\nWe invest in your professional growth! 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