***This role is located in Boston, MA***

Wayfair is seeking a Senior People Analyst to join the Talent Acquisition Analytics team.  Hiring the right talent is the most fundamental issue in business. This job is your chance to create and implement the analytics framework that allows a growing Fortune 500 company to hire at scale around the world. You will tackle complex workforce challenges across the recruiting life cycle so Wayfair can recruit the best teams, faster.  

Data-driven decision making is core to Wayfair’s business culture, and the recruiting organization is no exception. Our nimble analytics team is composed of people of diverse skill sets, including investment banking, economics, industrial engineering, start-up software development, consulting, and recruiting. For those passionate about the labor market, Wayfair is a microcosm of the global economy and a data paradise. We employ everyone from truck drivers to AI imaging experts. At our scale, analytics that reduce barriers to hiring create value very quickly. You will have the opportunity to shape business strategy and interact with senior executives on topics that include:

• Identifying high-skilled job candidates wherever and whoever they are and accelerate their hiring 
• Designing trials or identifying natural experiments to boost recruiting effectiveness
• Building the analytics backbone for a workforce planning process that delivers thousands of hires annually

Successful candidates will have exceptional analytical skills, technical fluency, bias toward action, outstanding partnering and communication skills, and the know-how to balance getting the details right while still moving fast.

What You'll Do:

• Scope, develop and manage end-to-end analyses (gather requirements, establish key metrics, test hypotheses, apply advanced analytical methods) to address difficult business questions and improve the recruiter and candidate experience
• Serve as a subject matter expert who can select the appropriate data science methodologies to explore a hypothesis
• Synthesize actionable data-driven insights, and influence Talent Acquisition strategy through compelling narratives of business recommendations
• Own the reporting and process (from creation to standardization and automation) necessary to turn a good data-driven insight into an operational and financial reality. Cultivate relationships and collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities and learnings, and ensure our work results in scalable solutions
• Communicate clearly and effectively across teams, levels, and leadership

What You'll Need:

• Strong quantitative and qualitative skills and analytical expertise.
• Degree in a quantitative field like Business Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, or Statistics
• 2+ years of experience in an analytical role, in addition to any graduate education
• Experienced in applying data science techniques to analyze complex and ambiguous business problems
• Proficient with scripting languages used to facilitate data analysis and statistical modeling, for example, Python or R.
• Experienced in using SQL and capable of cleaning messy data
• A passion for communicating analytical insights graphically. Experience with visualization tools preferred.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment and balance priorities in the face of ambiguity
• Experience collaborating across multiple stakeholder groups, and communicating with diverse audiences
• Integrity, maturity, and respect to handle confidential and sensitive talent acquisition data
• Curiosity, a creative mindset, and the ability to quickly learn new technical tools