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How can we maintain culture, collaboration, and human connection when teams can’t all be in the same room? Our CEO, Josh Silverman discussed the development of the future of work with leaders from Google Workspace and Quartz at Collision Conf Conf last week. A key point that resonated with us is that the future of work needs to be developed with remote employees top of mind. How can we evolve our conference rooms to ensure that both people in the room and on screen have equal opportunity and encouragement to provide input? When should we avoid meetings altogether? How can we better involve, and incorporate opinions of, our employees whose tasks occur predominantly offline? Thank you to Collision Conference for providing a platform for this essential conversation!
How has Etsy been able to preserve a unique and thoughtful culture throughout the past year of remote work? Like most companies, we learned a lot as we went, and applied those learnings to bolster our tried-and-true approaches. Our Chief Operations, Strategy, and People Officer Raina Moskowitz recently shared what’s worked for our workforce with Business Insider. Our main tactics include: enabling flexibility, prioritizing open communication, equipping managers with ongoing training, and continuing our long-standing commitment to diversity. "People want to work for companies where they feel supported, and who have a meaningful mission," Raina said – and we think Etsy is just that type of place.
We’re proud to share that Etsy was recently named by JUST Capital as one of America’s top five companies leading the way for women in the workplace. We didn’t earn this award overnight: Gender diversity has been a long-term, and ongoing, goal for us. Women make up nearly half of our workforce, half of our board, more than half of our executive team, and over 30% of our Engineering team – about double most industry benchmarks. See all of the companies who made the JUST Capital list here!
Etsy Ads is an on-site advertising product that gives Etsy sellers the opportunity to promote their handmade or vintage goods to buyers across our website and mobile apps, and last year we redesigned that automatic bidding system altogether! Sellers who participate in the Etsy Ads program act as bidders in an automated, real-time auction that allows their listings to be highlighted alongside organic search results on Etsy, when the ad system judges that they’re relevant. We saw an opportunity that could enhance our sellers’ reach, and we moved from setting one bid price per listing per day to using a neural network to dynamically set prices on each request. This is just one more example of the interesting and impactful #engineering projects we work on. Interested to read more about how we did it? Check out our newest Code as Craft post written by our colleagues Erica Greene, Alaa Awad, and Congzhe Su.
We're proud to share that Etsy Trend Expert Dayna Isom Johnson has been included as one of the hashtag#PureWow100, recognizing women emerging.
We are at the Grace Hopper Conference in #Houston, this week! Come and see us at Booth #4834 and get to know our company, our Talent team and some of our #engineering team! #diversity #engineers #GraceHopper
We're excited to announce that Etsy was named a Top New York Employer in Hired’s second annual Brand Health Report. Which factors do tech workers care about and which companies are doing it best? See here for Hired's full #BrandHealthReport: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQkH5
Etsy and our very own, Sarah Tanguay, attended the MIT hackathon event this weekend at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to uncover the future's brightest for our Summer #2019 Internship Class. Join us next summer! http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQMZU
Etsy is at Lesbians Who Tech here in #NYC, today and tomorrow! Come to see the team, get to know our engineerings and talk about the fun work we do day-to-day.
Join us in Toronto on our Structured Data Team as an Engineer! hashtag#Toronto hashtag#engineering hashtag#machinelearning http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQQLe
