Data Scientist

Data Scientist
Location: UK, (Remote)
Length: 6 months (potential for an extension)
Rate: Outside London From £45.19 p/h – Inside London From £50.00 p/h (Inside IR35)
Hours: 9am-6pm

Overview:

What are Shops Ads?
Shops Ads is a major Commerce effort throughout the company. Shop ads allow advertisers to optimise for purchases happening within our clients' apps. This creates a truly differentiated and relevant buyer experience as we can personalise the end-to-end buyer journey, from ad impression to the post-purchase experience.

What are Shops?
Shops are a mobile-first shopping experience where businesses can seamlessly create a customizable shop for their customers across the family of apps. This allows business owners to market their products directly to customers, enabling customers to browse and buy products all from within our apps rather than being redirected to a website.

This role:

• You'll be developing a deeper understanding of products to recommend and matching those to the user & their journey stage.
• Shops Ads is out of the 0 -> 1 stage, but still in a period of fast growth - we expect to >4x our revenue over the next 3 years.
• We are using ML to heavily personalise the onsite journey of buyers, and you can help accelerate this further, with heavy strategic input.
• This is a relatively new team with many 0->1 investment areas.

Top 3 must-have skills:

• SQL expertise
• A/B testing
• Python
• Dashboarding and visualization
• Summarising analytics to leadership

THE TEAM

• The team is responsible for ranking of products users may interact with on their e-commerce journey.
• The team’s current eng HC is 10.

THE IMPACT OPPORTUNITIES OR ACTIVITIES

• You will have the opportunity to apply your technical skill & passion to address critical business questions.
• You will perform analysis and input into strategic investment areas to help drive the team to deliver the most impact.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• We are looking for a strong Data Scientist with experience (or at least a strong interest) in both ads and eCommerce.
• An interest in ML & personalisation to help accomplish better performance of our surfaces.
• Ability to communicate clearly and drive alignment with stakeholders.
• 8-10 years’ experience ideally.