Data Scientist - Menu Tribe

Gousto ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Gousto are on a mission to become the UK's favourite way to eat dinner! Delicious recipes, precise ingredients & a dollop of adventure, delivered to your door. We have invested into our technology, data capability and our product to ensure the customer is at the heart of what we do. Every aspect of our business is powered by our passion. Whether it is innovation through our recipe development, building algorithms to optimise our recipe box journey or devising strategies to reduce plastic and food waste. All our teams play a part in our amazing growth in the UK. Our DREAM? To be the most-loved way to eat dinner, and for every meal to leave the planet better off. Gousto is changing how people shop, cook and eat food at home. Its an incredibly exciting time to join our team! Data Scientist - Menu & Market Tribe An exciting Data Science opportunity has become available in our Menu & Market tribe! Our tribe focuses on ensuring that we are providing our users with the best possible product, by helping them find the perfect recipes and add-ons. Data Science has a big role to play in achieving this, through providing relevant personalised recommendations and working with the rest of the tribe to determine the best ways for users to interact with their recommended recipes, as well as through a Menu Planning algorithm to help the Food team determine which recipes should appear on the menu. We also have many more interesting challenges such as, what makes a perfect menu? Can we build a predictive model to determine how any given menu will perform? Can we personalise the navigation experience based on our users behaviours? We tackle these opportunities alongside the rest of the tribe, made of Software Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers as well as colleagues from the Food, Analytics and Insights teams. If youre a natural problem solver and are passionate about data, youll fit right in. To be successful and more importantly enjoy being a Data Scientist at Gousto; you will be passionate about finding solutions for our customers. Join us and lets dream big and deliver bigger. Give it some Gousto! Who You Are * Adventurer in data science - As a member of the data-science team you will be using advanced machine-learning and optimisation techniques to build tools that will improve the business and make our service highly personalised. * End-to-end owner of data products - The problems we pursue are diverse and have a direct impact on the business. They range from optimising flows in our warehouse to algorithmically designing recipe menus based on customers' tastes. We believe that if you build something, you should run it too. Our data scientists take ownership over the entire process from ideation to deployment, as well as automation and maintenance. Knowing our data products inside-out allows us to keep learning and improving. * Passionate about impact - We have big plans for the future, hence we are looking for creative thinkers to help drive the business and disrupt the online grocery market by leveraging machine learning and optimisation. You will work with amazing colleagues and look forward to solving challenging problems that will have significant impact on the product and our customers. Requirements * MSc or PhD in STEM subjects would be great! But there are lots of ways to land in Data Science! Math, Stats, Computer Science or BSc paired with strong industry experience * Comfortable using SQL * Experience with managing productionisation of data products * Experience measuring and managing data product performance * Great communication skills being able to explain your work and the impact on the business to all types of business partners * High-energy self-starter with a passion for data, attention to detail, and a positive attitude Bonus Points For * Experience in Recommendation Systems * Experience in Deep Learning/CNN * Experience in Evolutionary Computation * Experience in deploying machine learning algorithms into production environments (AWS) * Experience with Airflow Whats it like working at Gousto? All of us are responsible for the success of Gousto. Our guiding values - dream, deliver and care - show our commitment to innovation, our ambition to hit goals at speed, and our deep respect for the people we work with. Our Values! Dream Be confident in your curiosity: think big, aim high and respectfully stand up for what you believe in. Deliver We look for effective answers that will have a real impact, take initiative to solve problems and have a healthy impatience for change. Care We care about our colleagues, customers and suppliers - they are key to our success - and about where our food comes from, the quality of our ingredients and our impact on the environment. Benefits At Gousto we are constantly looking to evolve our benefits for our people. Employees at Gousto are the key ingredient to our success and growth! Our offices are ergonomically tested for comfort, noise levels and ensuring we have dif