Staff Data Scientist, Experimentation

About this role

<p>Wallapop is a Barcelona based scale-up driven by the purpose to empower people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us💫.</p> <p>Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a catalogue of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale &amp; trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience &amp; reach. Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong data-redactor-tag="strong">The Challenge&nbsp;<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; display: inline !important; float: none;">🧩</span></strong></p> <p>We are seeking an experienced Experimentation lead who will own the evolution of Wallapop's experimentation practice. This person will define the company's experimentation standards, improve statistical rigor, increase the speed and quality of product decisions, and help Product teams adopt a culture of evidence-based decision making.</p> <p>You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Executive leadership to ensure experiments are designed, executed, analyzed, and interpreted consistently across the organization. You will be both a hands-on expert and an internal consultant, helping teams answer critical questions about marketplace growth, personalization, search, discovery, trust &amp; safety, monetization, and seller experiences.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What You Will Do</strong>👇</p> <ul> <li><strong>Experimentation Strategy:</strong> Define Wallapop's experimentation vision and roadmap, establish company-wide standards, create frameworks for experiment prioritization, and develop guardrail metrics and governance.</li> <li><strong>Statistical Excellence:</strong> Own methodology across the company and introduce advanced techniques (CUPED, sequential testing, network effect measurement, marketplace methods, quasi-experimental designs, and incrementality measurement) to reduce decision latency.</li> <li><strong>Product Partnership &amp; Enablement:</strong> Act as a strategic advisor and coach to Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and PMs on hypothesis development, experiment design, and success metrics to raise overall experimentation maturity.</li> <li><strong>Education:</strong> Build Wallapop's experimentation curriculum, deliver training programs for PMs, Designers, Engineers, and Analysts, and establish playbooks and office hours.</li> <li><strong>Platform &amp; Tooling:</strong> Partner with Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering to improve infrastructure, evolve Amplitude Experiment data practices, and define quality standards for exposure logging.</li> <li><strong>Marketplace Optimization:</strong> Design experimentation approaches for search ranking, recommendations, personalization, marketplace liquidity, supply-demand dynamics, seller growth, trust &amp; safety, and ads monetization.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We’re Looking For </strong>🔍</p> <ul> <li><strong>Technical Expertise:</strong>8+ years of total experience in data science, product analytics, or causal inference, including <strong>at least 4 years deeply focused on experimentation</strong> (experimental design, statistical inference, A/B testing, and variance reduction).</li> <li><strong>Tooling &amp; Code:</strong> Strong SQL proficiency along with experience using Python or R.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Product Partnership:</strong> Proven ability to partner directly with Product organizations and influence senior stakeholders using strong business judgment.</li> <li><strong>Leadership:</strong> Demonstrated success building experimentation cultures, experience coaching PMs and analysts, and excellent communication skills.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What Would Be A Plus </strong>🚀<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience in Amplitude&nbsp;</li> <li>Experience working in marketplaces, e-commerce, consumer internet, or two-sided platforms.</li> <li>Experience with recommendation systems or search systems.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Do note that all our jobs are&nbsp;<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; display: inline !important; float: none;">📍 </span>Barcelona based. We follow a hybrid model where flexibility rules. We commit to a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. Each team self-organizes to decide on cadence and in-person/remote rituals.</p> <p>Wallapop is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees as we want Wallapop to be a place for everyone.</p> <p>We sponsor visa processes for international candidates when applicable and provide legal &amp; admin support along the process combined with a competitive relocation package.</p> <p>Additionally to the opportunity to contribute to an agile product set up and work together towards achieving our meaningful mission, we offer the following&nbsp;🍭&nbsp;<strong data-redactor-tag="strong">Perks &amp; Be