Manager of Data Science & Analytics, Help Experience

Vinted group.; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options programme

25 days of paid annual leave

Confidential Employee Assistance Plan

Frequent team-building events

Home office support: budget up to €540

Personal shopping budget

Pension plan

Company bike leasing

Home office allowance

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

Vinted Group in Amsterdam seeks a Manager of Data Science & Analytics for Help Experience (HEX) to build and lead the Spark DSA team, comprising decision scientists and data scientists, dedicated to improving support tooling and agent performance.

You will shape the vision for Spark, recruit and mentor, foster rigorous experimentation, and partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Support Ops to deliver measurable impact across HEX.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in a Decision Science, Data Analytics, or Data Science role.
• Experience leading or mentoring others - as a manager, tech lead, or similar.
• Ability to translate strategy into actionable tactical plans and evaluate trade-offs.
• Proven ability to drive high-impact problems and measure outcomes with metrics.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Collaborative leader able to partner across functions.

Responsibilities

• Build, grow, and design the Spark DSA team: hire, mentor, and structure a team of Decision and Data Scientists.
• Develop people through situational leadership and feedback culture.
• Define clear metrics to measure agent and vendor quality and translate signals into coaching and operational decisions.
• Raise rigor in experimentation and ML modeling, adopt best practices across HEX.
• Ensure high, sustainable team performance and fast model deployment without compromising quality.
• Co-create vision and strategy for Spark, HEX, and the DSA function with a 12-month roadmap.

Skills

SQL

Python

Inferential statistics

A/B testing

Causal inference

Production ML

Leadership

Communication

Team mentoring

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Manager of Data Science & Analytics, Help Experience

Data Science & Analytics

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Vinted Marketplace

Brief info about Vinted

Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. 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.
The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:
Vinted 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.
Vinted 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.
Vinted 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.
Founded 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.

Information about the position

As the DSA Manager for Spark team in the Help Experience (HEX) domain, you will build, grow, and lead the team's Data Science & Analytics group - currently a team of 6 individual contributors spanning two crafts : Decision Scientists, who size opportunities, run experiments, and measure support quality, and Data Scientists, who build production‑grade statistical and machine learning models.
The Help Experience (HEX) domain owns the end-to-end journey of how members discover, access, and resolve help - from in-product guidance and self‑serve content to assisted support, tooling, and post‑resolution learning. Our mission is to make help effortless by delivering the right guidance, in the right place, at the right time.

The Spark team is where this comes to life for our support agents. Spark owns support agent tooling - raising the quality of support resolution by making the tools in our agents' hands faster, smarter, and more effective - and partners closely with the Vendor Management MS Operations team to connect tooling decisions to how support is actually delivered at scale.

In this position, you’ll

• Build, grow, and design the Spark DSA team : hire, mentor, and structure a team of Decision and Data Scientists focused on support agent tools. Adapt org design for resilience and wellbeing, and join cross‑functional hiring with Engineering, Product, and Design.
• Develop people through situational leadership : mentor staff across seniority levels and spot career paths. Drive a direct feedback culture and protect team health daily.
• Own how support quality is measured : define clear metrics to measure agent and vendor resolution quality. Translate these signals into actionable coaching, routing, and operations decisions alongside Vendor Management.
• Drive the DSA standard and a cultural turnaround : raise rigor in experimentation, analytics, and ML modeling while adopting industry best practices. Lead post‑experiment reviews to sharpen future strategy and drive a broader DSA culture shift across HEX.
• Ensure high, sustainable team performance : accelerate experimentation and model deployment without sacrificing quality or team health.
• Co‑create vision and strategy : shape the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Spark, HEX, and the DSA function. Translate strategy into <12-month tactical plans while balancing risks and trade‑offs.
• Partner as an equal across functions : collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Support Ops as an equal partner. Challenge roadmaps with evidence and balance big‑picture strategy with hands‑on problem solving.

About you

• You have strong experience in a Decision Science, Data Analytics, or Data Science role, and experience leading or mentoring others - whether as a manager, a tech lead, or similar positions.
• You grow people by tailoring your leadership, giving candid feedback, and protecting team wellbeing. You actively network with peer managers to keep expanding your own skills.
• You translate strategy into actionable tactical plans. You naturally zoom out to evaluate trade‑offs, weigh risks, and see the bigger picture.
• You steer your team toward high‑impact problems despite ambiguity or competing demands. You thrive on hard measurement challenges, like creating fair quality metrics for agents and vendors.
• You set high standards across both Decision Science and Data Science. Skilled in SQL, Python, inferential stats (A/B testing, causal inference), and production ML, you enforce clean, reproducible code and stay hands‑on when needed.
  You are an excellent communicator. You are fluent in written and spoken English, explain complex ideas with nuance, and adapt your style to technical and non‑technical audiences alike.
• You are a natural collaborator who promotes a collaborative culture, drives cross‑function and cross‑domain work, and acts as an equal partner to your EPDA and Operations peers.
• You care deeply about members, about your people, and about leading by example on Vinted's values.
• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Frequent team‑building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
• NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
• Company bike leasing scheme
• Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform
• Work from Home allowance
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted

Workation policy

Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.

Individual learning budget

Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.

Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.

Equal opportunity

We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you’re excited about a role, but don’t identify with every point in the ‘About you’ section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!

The annual gross salary range for this position excluding 8% holiday pay is: