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.
If you already know that management is for you, when should you make the switch from Software Engineer to manager? Hint: it may have less to do with your interest in management than you'd think. In this Code as Craft post, Etsy Engineering Manager Ilana Sufrin offers her opinion on the ideal timeline for switching into management from hands-on coding. She explores the case for waiting, the case for switching quickly, and how to know when you’ve reached your time for change.
We reported our first quarter 2022 financial results on May 4, 2022. Our CEO, Josh Silverman, said: “Despite continued uncertainty and macroeconomic headwinds, Etsy continues to rise to the occasion to deliver solid results that show us maintaining most of the gains reported during the extremely strong year-ago period. We kicked off 2022 with product and marketing investments aligned with our ‘Right to Win,’ with a keen focus on delivering value to our sellers by attracting new buyers to Etsy and increasing buyer purchase frequency. In addition, we are particularly proud of our efforts to support our community in Ukraine through a combination of efforts in keeping with our core mission and fundamental values.”
