Job Description

ACV Auctions is reinventing a $100 billion industry through an online, wholesale vehicle marketplace that provides car dealerships a more effective and transparent way of buying and selling wholesale vehicles through 20-minute auctions. Our technology modernizes the entire arc of auction operations, providing third- party inspections, account management, title and payment processing, managing arbitration and transportation. The company strives to be the most trusted source in the industry for dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles. The company is growing 300% year-over-year and recently completed a $150 million Series E funding round from investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: As a member of the Data Team at ACV, the Analytics Engineer's primary objective is to serve the needs of ACV and its customers. The primary customers of the Data team are other internal teams within ACV, whose business objectives and KPIs guide the way we understand problems and evaluate the quality of our answers. 

The Analytics Engineer is focused primarily on doing analysis for business needs and immediate queries from stakeholders on other teams. The Analytics Engineer's primary objective is to serve the needs of ACV and its customers. This role is focused primarily on doing analysis for business needs and immediate queries from stakeholders on multiple teams across the company outside of product/tech as it relates to their primary product/tech team.

Successful candidates will demonstrate excellent skill and maturity, be self-motivated as well as team-oriented, and have the ability to support the development and implementation of solutions to meet the needs of our customers. Those who will excel in this role will be those who listen with an ear to the overarching goal, not just the immediate concern that started the query.

Primacy will remain on the fundamentals of great questions, good process, competent analysis, clear communication, team wins, and focused contribution to the company's needs. No amount of education, training, or pedigree will substitute for a willingness to follow directions and receive feedback from the Manager of the Data team.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BA/BS in Statistics, Operations Research, or similar computationally intensive degree
• Minimum 3 years Professional Experience related to job description
• Strong Experience with Python (strong emphasis on pandas, numpy, plotting)
• Strong Professional Experience with MySQL / BigQuery
• Experience with data visualization / dashboarding tools like Tableau
• Experience doing complex queries and transformations on large data set
• Good scripting and functional programming skills
• Strong Technical Writing skills. 
• Prior ETL and CRUD Operations Experience. 
• Expertise in exploratory data analysis and the basics of data-driven reasoning are a must.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS in Statistics, Operations Research, or similar computationally intensive degree
• Experience with distributed computation systems like Spark or Dask
• Experience on AWS or Google Cloud

 ACV AUCTIONS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER (EOE) AND ALL QUALIFIED APPLICANTS WILL RECEIVE CONSIDERATION FOR EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, DISABILITY STATUS, PROTECTED VETERAN STATUS, OR ANY OTHER CHARACTERISTIC PROTECTED BY LAW. 

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