Who we are
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we're the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we've been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus-our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
What you'll do
Support product and engineering teams for CarGurus' online retail experience. Duties include: utilize SQL expertise, conduct exploratory empirical analyses that bridge disparate data sources to quantify product performance, user behavior, and/or market trends; distill unstructured "big data" into actionable insights; review A/B experimentation, advising engineers, and product managers on requisite data points to collect, required sample sizes, optimal metrics to examine, robustness of numerical findings, and the bottom-line success or failure of the tested changes; provide technical guidance on and ideas for improving A/B testing-related tools, algorithms, and automated processes; advocate for specific, data-driven product innovations that help further high-level company strategy, primarily in partnership with the Product/Engineering teams; participate in brainstorming and planning discussions across the organization to these ends; generate metrics to measure business success, condensing abstract or loosely-defined challenges down to concrete calculations; Build intuitive dashboards and other visual monitoring tools to guide daily decision-making by senior stakeholders and the company at large; communicate and present complex quantitative findings in easily digestible terms to company leadership, homing in on key takeaways; create new data assets and build automated transformations to bring them to fruition; and partner with Data Engineering teams to advance core data modeling/architecture (e.g. user clickstream logging), by optimizing, integrating, and distilling large raw datasets and metadata. Multiple positions.
Who You Are:
Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, Finance, or a related field and completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in each of the following: SQL; Statistical programming, including R, Stata, SAS or Python; core statistical concepts, including regression, significance testing, omitted variable bias, and independence/dependence; data visualization platforms, including PowerBI; and Data analytics, including data modeling and analysis of user behavior.
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Working at CarGurus
We reward our Gurus' curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential-starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That's why we hope you'll apply even if you don't check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid
