(Senior) Data Scientist - Market Insights

As Zalando transforms from Europe's leading e-commerce company into The Starting Point for Fashion, this is an exciting time to join. As a (Senior) Applied Scientist in the Market Insights team, you will tackle challenging fashion problems using state-of-the-art AI methods, exploring and using large amounts of multi-modal data. Market Insight project involves i) crawl and scrape eventually > 500 web shops that compete with Zalando across 25 countries daily, ii) find exact product matches between the Zalando assortment and these web shops, and iii) enable actionable intelligence based on the data. You and your team will utilize innovative technology including machine learning at scale, e.g. i) to find exact product matches through text and image recognition algorithms ii) to classify product attributes which helps in building insights platform. You will create a tremendous impact on our 42+ million active customers by offering attractive offers in comparison to offers customers find at other shops, and over > 550 Zalando employees by providing insight dashboards that highlight what's happening in various European fashion shops. WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

• Bring in your strong scientific experience in researching and deploying machine learning and deep learning based solutions to help our millions of customers in their inspiration journey.
• Tackle challenging state-of-the-art fashion problems, such as competitor product matching against Zalando articles using Image or code based matching. Contribute to our scientific efforts with rigorous peer reviews and through publications in international conferences.
• Mentor junior and mid level applied scientists. Actively collaborate with other teams and share knowledge and expertise within our talented applied science community.
• Work closely with applied science leaders, product managers and other business stakeholders to bring our state of the art solutions to the customers and to discover and identify new opportunities.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• PhD or MSc (or comparative experience) in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics, with at least 4 years of industry experience in Machine Learning/Data Science/Deep Learning.
• Experience building and leading complete ML products; from the problem analysis and data selection to their production deployment.
• Great coding skills in Python and hands-on experience with ML libraries such as sklearn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch, as well as experience with Cloud Computing frameworks (e.g., AWS).
• Deep understanding of the theory behind the state-of-the-art methods in your domain as well as a broad overview of Machine Learning and Deep Learning methods and best practices in their application

PERKS AT WORK

• A workplace run on trust, empowerment and feedback; positive, inspiring working atmosphere
• Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
• Mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
• Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 34 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

Pricing Platform is at the core of our commercial operation. Our tools help to determine how much of each product to buy, to recommend the best prices for these products, and to ensure that we have the right level of logistics capacity to fulfill our customers' demand. The Pricing Platform engineering team uses cutting-edge technology, data science, and machine learning, to forecast demand and pricing with a focus on business and customer experience. Partnerships happen with all key engineering and product teams, business and customer experience teams.

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.