Head of Data Marktplaats

Marktplaats in The Netherlands, and 2dehands and 2ememain in Belgium, are part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist. The three brands are hosted on a multi-tenant platform, operated from our Amsterdam location, and are the top players in the classifieds space throughout the Benelux region. 

We offer consumers the opportunity to trade their unwanted products and contribute to a greener, circular economy. We offer businesses - of all sizes, from the smallest hobbyist to the biggest brands in Benelux - a platform to showcase their goods and services online to over 11 million monthly unique users.

What you’ll do ​& Who you are

We're looking for a creative and leader to step into the role of Head of Data for Marktplaats. This critical position will help deliver high quality and cost-efficient data capabilities that users love to enable Product & Technology and business teams to use data effectively in their processes. You report to the CTO and will be part of the Product & Technology Leadership team and will lead and develop a team of diverse data professionals responsible for setting the strategy, developing and maintaining all data capabilities powering Marktplaats. This includes, advanced machine-learning solutions (recommendation engines, personalisation, image recognition), data warehouse and analytics tooling and automation. To understand our scale: our ML/AI products enhance over 25MiO search a day, and produce 10MiO recommendations. Across our platform we have over 150 data products fed by 100+ data pipelines, resulting in having just over 2 Petabytes of data stored.

As an important member of the Product and Technology leadership team you will combine technical expertise with promoting a data-driven culture and being a trusted advisor both within the organisation who gets excited by writing the next chapter for a beloved brand like Marktplaats.

What we are looking from you to be successful:

• Ability to coach others to become more data driven and increase their ability to work effectively with data and increase business value using data.

• Work closely with Product and Technology leadership, business teams, and other cross-functional departments stakeholders to align data initiatives with broader business goals

• Adaptability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced and constantly evolving industry. Customer-focused mindset to understand and meet user and business needs.

• Demonstrate strong project management skills with a proactive approach to driving change management.

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of up to 40 people implementing a performance and cooperative culture. Experience in managing distributed teams required

What should be part of your toolkit:

• Extensive experience in Data Engineering and in Data Mesh application.

• Extensive experience in Data Privacy and Data Security.

• Extensive experience in Data Governance.

• Solid experience in Analytics and ML/AI scopes.

• Experience with strategy in data products and solutions, involving several teams, complex timelines, level of quality and cost.

• Have deep technical insights, with ability to deep dive and excel at system design and architectural choices of complex distributed systems.

• Experience in Software design patterns (microservices, messaging, distributed architectures)

• Good understanding of privacy and network and application security

What Tools & Technologies you will be using:

We use a wide variety of tools and technologies in the data space. Prior experience is not required, but you should have experience with similar technologies:

• AWS ecosystem (redshift, S3, sagemaker)

• Airflow

• Kafka

• Databricks

• Tableau

• Looker

• Big Query

• Google Analytics

What should you bring to the table?

Experience with classifieds, or similar multi-headed marketplaces. Understanding the dynamics around key pillars like consumer and professional trading, advertising and marketing is seen as critical to understand how to extract most value from our data.

Benefits

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits: 

• An attractive Base Salary 💸

• Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus) 🏆

• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon🌛well why not! just make sure you have internet connection! 🌍

• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care ❤️‍

• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow 🌱 

On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters! ✨

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.