Company Description

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero

Job Description

We are on the look for a Staff Data Scientist to join our Customer Science domain inside our Consumer Insights & Marketing Tech tribe. Our domain enables personalization by transforming consumer data into actionable frameworks, predictive models and targeting capabilities, with the objective of increasing customer value and driving growth and incentive efficiency. Currently we have more than 300 models live globally at any time of the day.

You will be part of a cross-functional team of engineers and data scientists, in which you will innovate and guide the creation of data products from conceptualisation, architecture, implementation and delivery. You will be an integral part of understanding the business problems, translating them into technical requirements, designing the technical solutions, and support the implementation until production.

If you're a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

Your mission:

• Design and conceptualize end-to-end machine learning models that focus on optimizing the customer journey and improve our incentive efficiency

• Solve complex business problems by applying your knowledge and experience in statistics and advanced machine learning

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy ML services and models into production

• Create and deliver presentations to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Drive innovation and guide more junior Data Scientists within your circle of influence.

• Actively lead methodological decisions for the domain and advertise best Data Science practices across the tribe

• Be a role model for standardizing our existing ML stack in order to drive productivity and efficiency in the model development lifecycle

Qualifications

Your heroic skills:

• Proven track record of scientific work in your Bachelors, Masters or PhD in statistics, physics, economics, mathematics, data science or similar.

• Fluency and long-term experience in Python including high familiarity with its scientific stack such as Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, etc.

• You write efficient and readable queries in SQL to receive the required data while understanding the cost implications of data processing

• Extensive work experience in a company environment where you acquired a sound business understanding, ideally in a marketing-oriented environment

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• In-depth knowledge how to handle and apply statistical and machine learning models (supervised and unsupervised)

• Experience with cloud-based computing platforms, such as CGP, AWS or Azure as well as deep knowledge with MLOps best practices and tools (e.g. VertexAI)

• You love to learn, are a critical thinker and creative problem solver who strives for excellence 

• You are a team player who loves to collaborate and work with stakeholders from different backgrounds in an international environment 

• Excellent English communication skills are imperative

Additional Information

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

• Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank,  Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan

• Look up and go for it. We will support you in developing yourself and your career: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support

• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Online Canteen, Corporate Discounts

At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.