Head of Data Science

Would you like to be part of our family in a modern, growing, and international e-com company? Then Babyshop Group is the company for you!

At Babyshop Group we trust you to Own It; learn, develop and you will have an impact on the direction of the company. Also, we will never stop raising the goal of sustainable entrepreneurship. Lead Not Follow!

The Babyshop Group is a global premium and luxury retailer of children's clothing and products to the modern family. The unique retail concept was developed in 2006 when the Swedish entrepreneurial couple Linn and Marcus Tagesson set up the business. Today, the Babyshop Group is a leading player with a global footprint and +62 million website visitors annually and 1 million retail customers per year with customers across 170 countries.

The Group presides over an exclusive portfolio that consists of the e-commerce websites Babyshop.com, Alexandalexa.com, Lekmer.se, Oiidesign.se and Melijoe.com. Under this umbrella, the Group offers more than 500 prestige brands along with a number of proprietary brands like e.g. Kuling, STOY and a Happy Brand.

For further information see www.babyshop.com

ABOUT THE POSITION

We are looking for a Data Science Lead to join Babyshop in building a next-generation intelligent platform for online premium children's clothes. You will lead and work in a small team of Data Scientists to help build and optimize, through research and experimentation, our data-driven products. We also love innovative ideas!

Data Science plays a vital role in Babyshop’s organization, however we have a lot of interesting projects in our roadmap, hence giving you an opportunity to shape solutions and implementations at an interesting stage in our journey.

Our biggest focus area has been creating a personalized digital experience for our customers, such as real time recommendation engines and clustering of the customer base. Since then, we have added new data science areas such as developing an in-house ML based replenishment system and using ML to optimize our digital marketing through Customer Lifetime Value modelling.

In the role as Head of Data Science, you’ll be responsible for a team of three people and report directly to the CTO.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead, mentor and empower a team of Data Scientists
• Partner with Tech, Commercial and Operation teams to drive data efforts for all workstreams, using all the tools in our current Data Science toolkit – such as big data analytics, clustering, forecasting, CLV, personalization, recommendation algorithms and A/B testing
• Take projects from munging raw data, through exploratory analysis and prototyping, to a final, polished version in a short timeframe
• Design and engineer algorithms in primarily one of these domains: Ranking, Recommender systems, Computer vision and Time series forecasting
• Conduct practical research with a scientific mindset, and a focus on delivery
• Translate ML/Analytics capabilities for non-technical audiences, both operational employees and senior executives, to help the organization prioritize
• Ensure high standards of technical excellence for all Data Science efforts, adopting best practices from other organizations and vetting new technologies or frameworks when appropriate
• Help in the design of new features in the product, and innovation inside the company

WHO YOU ARE

• Data Science/Analytics experience, with experience or desire of leading a data team
  • Experience and/or desire to lead both machine learning and analytical Data Scientist and work streams - we have both on this team
  • Successful track record of working in an impactful data team
  • Highly empathetic, collaborative, prestige less approach to leadership
  • A fast learner with a collaborative disposition and have the ability to draw business insights to add real value to the business
  • Fluent in SQL, Python (which is our core language) and Data Science & ML packages (Pandas, scikit-learn, keras, TensorFlow)
  • You have a visionary mindset. Understanding how to improve business processes and find opportunities to apply data science techniques to real problems is as exciting to you as solving them
  • Good understanding of cloud technologies, we use GCP.
  • Experience working with Kubeflow and Kubernetes is a big plus
  • A strong English communicator (both written and spoken)
  • Be interested to keep up to date with scientific advancements
   
  Sound interesting? Please click on the “Apply” below to easily submit your application! The last day to submit is 2021-11-26. We review applications continuously but will stop once we found our perfect match - so don't wait too long!

 As a person you are without prestige and willing to roll up your sleeves when needed. Due to our fast growth, it is important that you are easily adaptable to changes and have flexibility to your workflow. Finally, we see that you are a person who loves solving problems and has a solution-oriented mindset to find even more effective working methods.

Start: Immediate

Extent: 40h/week, Permanent employment with six months’ probation period.

Location: HQ in Stockholm, Skeppargatan 65