Lead Decision Scientist, Ads Revenue

Vinted group.; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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25 days annual leave

EAP program

Team-building events

Home office budget €540

Bike leasing

Flexible benefits budget

Work from Home allowance

Shopping budget

Pension plan

Public transport card

Dog-friendly office

Learning budget

Job summary

Vinted Group is seeking a Lead Decision Scientist to join the Revenue - Ads team in Amsterdam. You will own measurement frameworks for Ads decisions, define evaluation standards, and partner with Data Science and Analytics to scale trusted insights across product and marketplace.

You’ll translate complex questions into quantitative frameworks, build guardrails balancing short-term revenue with marketplace health, and align cross-functional stakeholders through rigorous data.

Qualifications

• Advertising publishing and marketplace knowledge.
• Strong analytical and causal inference judgment.
• High ambiguity tolerance and the ability to bring structure to complex problems.
• Experience designing measurement methodologies in imperfect environments (e.g., sparse data, misaligned-in-time measurements, quasi-experiments).
• Strong product and business sense, with the ability to convert signals into quantifiable inputs.
• The ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders through clarity and rigorous data.

Responsibilities

• Own the Ads decision measurement framework. Create analytical frameworks to evaluate Ads decisions across product, pricing, placement, and monetization, making risks and tradeoffs explicit.
• Develop tradeoff frameworks and guardrails to weigh short-term revenue vs marketplace health across homepage, search, messaging, etc.
• Define measurement and evaluation methodology, including incrementality logic, attribution approaches, quasi-experiments, and sparse data handling.
• Govern the Ads metric tree with clear, consistent definitions used by Product, Data Science, Commercial and Leadership teams.
• Measure marketplace impact by translating risks into signals affecting buyer/seller experience, discoverability, fairness and retention.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering to define scalable data models aligned with decision-making needs.
• Align cross-functional strategies by turning ambiguous questions into quantifiable inputs for execution.

Skills

Ad ops knowledge

Analytical thinking

Causal inference

Ambiguity tolerance

Measurement design

Product sense

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Vinted Group is seeking a Lead Decision Scientist to join the Revenue - Ads team in Amsterdam. You will own measurement frameworks for Ads decisions, define evaluation standards, and partner with Data Science and Analytics to scale trusted insights across product and marketplace.

You’ll translate complex questions into quantitative frameworks, build guardrails balancing short-term revenue with marketplace health, and align cross-functional stakeholders through rigorous data.