Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.
The Business Analytics team’s mission is to unlock strategic opportunities and empower Thumbtack to reach its full business potential. We focus on driving business performance through thoughtful metrics, dashboards, and forums that help measure progress and deepen our understanding of the business. By uncovering transformative insights, we help shape company strategy and guide team execution. We also use data and visual storytelling to communicate Thumbtack’s narrative to investors, board members, our team, and the broader world. As a tight-knit group, we’re passionate about making an impact through data science while building a world-class team through hiring, coaching, and continuous learning.
About the RoleAs a Data Scientist on the Business Analytics team, you will work with the leadership team on a daily basis to unpack business performance and insights to influence decision making and long-term strategy. You will work across reporting and infra, monthly business performance
What you'll do- Define, measure, and track the key metrics that measure Thumbtack’s success
- Design and build key company data tables, dashboards, and insights tools that power decisions across the company, and evolve them as our product and business change
- Conduct in-depth analyses to answer key questions that are critical to Thumbtack’s strategy
- Support and improve company revenue forecasting model, and forecasting/planning process
- Partner effectively with teams across the company, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Finance, as well as Thumbtack’s leadership team
- Contribute to our team and company data culture through peer collaboration, training, coaching, and more
- 2+ years of professional experience
- Advanced command of SQL
- Experience with data visualization tools
- Ability to develop compelling written narratives to explain analyses and make recommendations
- Exemplary analytical problem solving skills and business judgment; ability to ask the right questions, identify missing information and synthesize insights from data
- Effective collaboration with cross-functional partners (product marketing, finance, etc.) to think through product strategy and execution questions
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Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.
Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: [email protected].
If you are a California resident, please review information regarding your rights under California privacy laws contained in Thumbtack’s Privacy policy available at https://www.thumbtack.com/privacy/ .
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