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We’ll be at Jalisco Talent Land this July 20-24th – will you?! Not only is Etsy the main sponsor of the Talent Woman component of this Talent-Network event, but a number of Etsy employees will be presenting throughout the week. Rachana Kumar, Sylvia Gándara Lois, Sheyla Vega, Gerardo Teruel, José Arruti, Felipe Guizar Diaz and Deborah Dana will delve into topics ranging from how to keep recruiting diverse and human to the world of product engineering. Want to connect with our team directly? Visit our booth for tech interviewing workshops, to explore potential career opportunities at Etsy, and to compete in our #TalentLand technical challenge! Folks will be developing innovative ways to help Mexican artisans learn how to utilize and benefit from the Etsy marketplace. We’re excited to meet you!
With over 90 million product listings, connecting buyers, sellers, and their handcrafted products are essential to our dynamic marketplace. Interested in learning how we do it? Join us at /dev/color's annual conference where we’ll provide a glimpse of the world of ontology – a set of concepts and categories that shows properties and the relations between them – and how it helps Etsy deliver highly personalized and curated recommendations in mere milliseconds. On July 15th, Ren Pope, Senior Staff Ontologist and Data Modeler, and Jerry A. Higgs, PhD , Senior Software and Systems Engineer will discuss how ontology is being applied to help manage e-commerce marketplaces, the challenges that sometimes come with maximizing the impact of its methods, and how we’re experimenting with innovative approaches to help provide our customers a better and more personalized shopping experience on our platform. Interested to learn more? This blog post includes insights into the upcoming talk.
We’re proud to have earned the #3 spot on LinkedIn's U.S. 2022 Top Companies list in Retail. This list highlights the best companies to grow a career by assessing factors contributing to career progressions such as skills growth, ability to advance, gender diversity, and company stability. At Etsy, people are the core of our business and we’re committed to providing the opportunities and resources to support and encourage our employees’ growth. Thank you to LinkedIn for this recognition.
Members of our employee resources groups recently enjoyed an in-person breakfast and networking event at our Brooklyn office. Our ERGs continuously aim to create a positive and inclusive workplace culture and this event further encouraged this goal by providing an opportunity for us to connect, share and celebrate across tangential ERGs. Additionally, our Black Resource & Identity Group at Etsy (BridgE) celebrated a monumental milestone: 100+ members! "Communities are important because they provide a sense of connection, a sense of purpose, and a sense of shared identity, all supporting perpetual growth. Belonging to a strong community also provides an environment where people with different views, experiences, or beliefs can learn from one another, helping each of us reach insights that we may not have reached on our own." shared BridgE Co-Chair, Jerry A. Higgs, PhD. This call to action for everyone to do their part in establishing a strong community – within and across ERGs – resonated with ERG leaders and members alike.
Curious how Etsy keeps nearly 100 million listings in sync, in real-time, with Offsite Ads across 12 countries and on 3 marketing platforms? With sellers frequently updating and ultimately selling a wide variation of listings, ensuring ads were always up to date presented a particularly unique challenge for our engineers to tackle. In our most recent Code as Craft post, Software Engineer Joe Torraca shares how we utilize real time streaming on Kafka pipelines to update listings with seller changes, currency conversion rates, and shipping prices from carriers, all while leveraging a few ML models.
For marketplaces, earning buyer and seller trust requires providing secure and reliable platform experiences. How do we do this at Etsy? Tomorrow at 17:30 IST, Etsy Director of Engineering Anthony Mazzarella will take to the Dublin Tech Summit Horizon Stage for a conversation about Marketplace Risk. He’ll share details around Etsy’s shift from operational reactivity to proactive product development, on empowering individuals when delivering on risk objectives, and an example of how these approaches were put into practice during a unique Etsy case study. Interested to learn more? This blog post includes insights into the upcoming talk. Hope to see you at #DTS22!
June is PrideMonth and supporting our LGBTQIA+ shop owners is one of the special ways we’re celebrating! Our Pride 2022: Editors’ Picks page provides a unique way to discover the work, and amplify the stories of our incredible sellers of this community. Follow along throughout the month because we’ll continue sharing a few additional ways we’re celebrating this notable occasion and our LGBTQIA+ colleagues.
“Now, at Etsy, 36% of our US-based software engineering team are women and marginalized genders…We’re a company that’s diverse in gender, culture, engineering experience, and much more, supporting a similarly vibrant community of buyers and sellers. [We] thought it was time for the public face of our engineering work to convey that fact, and our pride in it.” Najla Elmachtoub, Engineering Lead for Buyer ReEngagement, shares what exactly inspired a complete revamp of the Code As Craft Engineering blog, and how our enhanced page now better reflects Etsy’s distinct engineering culture.
During Fortune’s recent Brainstorm Design conference, our VP and Head of Product Design Christina Goldschmidt spoke to a topic particularly relevant for Mental Health Awareness Month: how openly identifying and sharing your personal values around care can help improve mental health in the workplace. The #FortuneDesign conference brought together leaders across #design to trade ideas and discuss the state of the industry and its future. Christina led a workshop on trauma-informed design and living your values. She spoke to how we prioritize mental health and vulnerability in leadership at Etsy – not just on our product design team but across the entire company. Interested to learn more? Check out the key takeaways in this Fortune article.
We’re proud to share that Kruti Patel Goyal, Etsy’s Chief Product Officer has earned a finalist spot on Amplitude’s Product 50 list: “the definitive ranking of the best and brightest in the product space.” From product managers to designers, the Product 50 honors visionary product leaders developing ground-breaking digital products, transforming legacy companies into product-led organizations, or advising the most successful teams on the modern way to build products. Thank you Kruti for leading Etsy’s product development efforts worldwide – empowering your teams to build exceptional shopping experiences while enabling our sellers to manage and scale their business globally.
