Job Description
Lead Data Scientist
Location: Midlands based HQ with weekly on-site presence
Salary: Up to £75,000 plus competitive bonus and benefits
A large UK consumer eCommerce business is scaling a new internal advertising and monetisation platform and is hiring a Lead Data Scientist to take technical ownership of its core algorithms.
This is a technical leadership role with end-to-end ownership of the algorithm roadmap. You will set direction, make architectural decisions, and lead delivery from experimentation through to production in a high-scale environment.
What you will do
* Own the technical and algorithm roadmap for a large-scale internal ads platform.
* Design, test and deploy advanced predictive and ranking models such as Two-Tower architectures, RNNs and learning-to-rank approaches.
* Lead architecture, model selection and production design decisions.
* Improve feedback loops to increase responsiveness to real-world events and outcomes.
* Set best practices for production ML, testing, monitoring and deployment.
* Act as the technical authority for data science across the ads domain.
* Work closely with engineering, product and commercial teams.
* Present outcomes and recommendations to senior stakeholders in clear business terms.
What you bring
1. Strong background in data ...