About Etsy

Etsy is the world's most vibrant handmade marketplace. Our mission is to enable people all over the world to make a living making things. Etsy is growing rapidly and needs awesome, motivated people to join that mission. The growing Etsy community brings 700 million page views, and our sellers collectively list 2 million new items listed and sell over $20 million of goods each month. As a company, Etsy operates transparently and you can check in to see how the Etsy community is doing in our regular weather reports.

Etsy was founded by Robert Kalin, Chris Maguire, and Haim Schoppik. Union Square Ventures is an original investor, as are the founders of Flickr and Delicious. In early 2008, Etsy received $27 million in funding from Silicon Valley's Accel Partners.

What we are looking for: Technical Project Manager

Etsy is looking for a technical project manager who will be responsible for managing the daily activities of a variety of projects at Etsy. He or she will work closely with CTO and be the right hand of the engineering and product teams and product/design team to plan iterations and releases, allocate resources, communicate scheduling issues, and generally make things happen as they should. Etsy is a startup and we especially value candidates who are passionate about Etsy's community and are willing to do whatever it takes to create the best experience possible for Etsy's users. This position is based in Brooklyn and may require occasional trips to our data center in northern New Jersey.

While the project manager may not be a coder, we expect the project manager to understand how the technical staff thinks about our work and what it takes to build wonderful things. We believe that code is craft, good software and systems designs are works of art, and that the work we do is part of larger creative culture represented by the hundreds of thousands of inspired makers who make Etsy such a wondrous marketplace. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can do big things. We also believe in the right tool for the job, not language-as-religion. Our current systems run PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, Solr/Lucene, Postgres, MySQL, and more.

What you'll be doing

• Working closely with the executive team to assess proposed projects, including prioritization and resource allocation of new projects.
• Leading all elements of the project lifecycle for multiple concurrent projects in partnership with project business owners. Apply project methodology (i.e. key practices in the phases of the project: scoping, planning, designing, build, deploy) using critical thinking and leadership skills.
• Driving the adoption of project management methodology throughout the organization, while being flexible and avoiding being too methodology-driven.
• Provide ongoing project management expertise and guidance to the project and engineering teams.
• Communicate the appropriate level of information (status, risks, outcomes, etc.) up to leadership as well as across project stakeholders and team members ensuring critical visibility for the right audience.
• Create and maintain executive-level dashboards and robust project-level tools for ongoing insight into project status.
• Manage and administer online project management tools

Your background

• 5+ years experience working in a consumer Internet environment (e-commerce and/or social media a plus), including 3+ years of project management experience
• Demonstrated experience leading projects involving Web design & development, marketing, creative design, operations, and new product/service development.
• Proven track record of surpassing objectives and delivering exceptional results, despite challenges.
• A solid understanding of the entire lifecycle of web development projects, as well as software development methodologies, particularly Agile/SCRUM.
• Knowledge of project management principles and processes.
• Experience in the training/mentoring of project management methodology, process and concepts.
• Solid knowledge of the tools and elements of project management, including project management and/or bug tracking tools like Trac, Bugzilla, and Jira.
• Strong team building and facilitation skills, including leading meetings, presentation skills, problem resolution/mediation.
• Hands-on experience in the following areas a plus: system administration, networking, computer hardware, logistics and operations, data center management, capacity planning, disaster recovery planning.
• B.A. or B.S. degree

What you are like

• Exceptional communication, leadership, and critical thinking skills. Ability to interact with all kinds of people
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, loosely structured and rapid growth environment.
• Embraces change and can adapt easily and recover from setbacks.
• Willingness to work hard and think creatively.
• Strong initiative; able to self-manage. Must be comfortable working in an unstructured, creative, and fast-paced environment

We're growing rapidly and are well-funded with a proven business model and established revenue to help us continue growing and serving our community. If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter along with your resume telling us what inspires you about Etsy and why you think you are perfect for the team. If you contribute to an open source project, write a blog, or practice another craft, that means something to us, and we would love to hear about it when you write!