Manager of Data Science & Analytics, Trust and Safety

Brief Info About Vinted

Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.

The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:

Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.

Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.

Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.

Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.

Information About The Position

As the Manager of Data Science & Analytics, Trust & Safety - Detection, you will help shape the systems that protect millions of people using Vinted.

In this role, you will lead a Data Science & Analytics team working on some of our highest-impact trust and safety challenges: detecting malicious users, risky behaviour, and harmful content at scale. You’ll combine people leadership, product thinking, analytics, experimentation, and machine learning to help your team build reliable detection systems that make Vinted safer for our members.

You will co-lead a cross-functional area together with Product and Engineering, and partner closely with stakeholders across Trust & Safety. Together, you’ll define the strategy, metrics, and machine learning approach behind our detection capabilities: from discovery and experimentation to productionisation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Your team will own the development and performance of models and analytical systems that identify abuse, measure impact, and support better decisions. As a manager, you’ll create clarity, raise the quality bar, and help your team grow, enabling people to do their best work while delivering meaningful outcomes for Vinted and its members.

In this position, you’ll

• Lead a high-impact DSA team by setting clear direction, supporting individual growth, and creating an environment where people can do strong, autonomous work.
• Drive the Detection data science strategy across analytics, experimentation, and machine learning, ensuring our efforts focus on the most meaningful Trust & Safety problems.
• Build and improve detection systems that identify malicious users, risky behaviours, and harmful content at scale, helping keep Vinted safe and trustworthy.
• Own the team’s impact by defining success metrics, shaping the roadmap, and ensuring projects deliver measurable value for members and the business.
• Co-create with Product, Engineering, and domain leaders to make good decisions, align on priorities, and turn data into action.
• Raise the quality bar for data science work through strong problem definition, robust measurement, clear documentation, and high standards in modelling and analysis.
• Support your team beyond the roadmap when needed by helping navigate ambiguity, unblocking ad hoc issues, and stepping in where your leadership adds the most value.
  
  

About You

• You have experience leading and growing a team of data scientists working on high-impact machine learning problems.
• You have a strong applied background in machine learning (including some combination of classic machine learning, NLP, computer vision, and GenAI.
• You have experience building, deploying, and improving machine learning models in production.
• You’ve worked with detection, trust & safety, fraud, abuse, risk, or similarly adversarial problem spaces — or you’re excited to learn fast in one.
• You understand modern ML approaches, you know how to balance experimentation, modelling quality, delivery speed, and long-term maintainability.
• You bring strong product and business judgment, and can connect technical decisions to user impact and company goals.
• You communicate clearly and can explain complex ideas in a simple, pragmatic, and persuasive way.
• You’re hands-on enough to challenge assumptions, review work, and guide technical direction when needed.
• You have strong skills in Python and SQL, and you’re comfortable working with large, messy datasets in production environments.
• You’re fluent in English, both written and spoken.
  
  

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Frequent team-building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per working day
• Access to a discounted gym membership plan
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
• NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• A dog-friendly office
  
  

Working at Vinted

Individual Learning Budget

We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid Work

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

The salary range for this position is € 86,600 - € 117,200 gross per year.