Data Scientist - Sales & Marketing Hybrid inLondon The company Fast, flexible finance empowers small businessesto manage their cash flow better and seize opportunities - makingtheir business and the economy stronger as a whole. At iwoca, we dojust that. We help businesses get the funds they need, when theyneed it, often within minutes. We’ve already made several billionin funding available to more than 100,000 businesses since welaunched in 2012, and positioned ourselves as a leading Fintech inEurope. Our mission is to finance one million businesses. We’ll getthere by continuing to make our finance ever more relevant andaccessible to more businesses by combining cutting-edge technology,data science, and a 5-star customer service. The team The Sales& Marketing (“Direct Acquisition”) team comprises ourMarketing, Sales and Acquitech teams. We are responsible forreaching small and advertising finance to UK small businesses ofall shapes and sizes. We do this through paid and organic marketingchannels as well as direct sales. We are an autonomous team withmarketing, sales, software development, product, design, and datascience team members. As a Data Scientist, you’ll work day to daywith team members in all functions. The role As a Data Scientist inour Direct Acquisition team, you will play a crucial role workingto set up and analyse tests, and to build statistical models. Thedata-driven insights you produce will help us develop strategies toimprove the efficiency and effectiveness of our sales andmarketing. Strategy and innovation: - Work closely with the Head ofDirect Acquisition, team and channel leads to ensure that your workaligns with business goals and achieves valuable commercialoutcomes. - Design experiments to compare the performance ofdifferent strategies and evaluate them to inform decisions. - Shareyour findings and modelling with the wider business to impact ourstrategy. Ownership and influence: - Independently build models tohelp solve our business problems, with responsibility for thesolution design. - Promote analytical rigour within the team,ensuring that our experimental designs are correctly defined andthat we evaluate tests without bias. - iwoca lives and breathesdata, so data scientists have a key role in decision-making.Development opportunities: - Join our community of analysts/datascientists/statisticians to ensure alignment in methodology acrossiwoca. You’ll be part of a peer group with whom you can discussbest practices or the latest advances so that you share and deepenyour technical expertise. - Build expertise in Acquisitionprocesses across the full range of marketing and sales activities.The projects Here are some examples of projects you might work on:- Setting up, monitoring and analysing split tests to helpunderstand the value of marketing and sales activities. This couldinclude determining the return on investment of different types ofmarketing strategies. - Building predictive models based on salesand marketing data, to determine whether certain activities lead toa positive return. - Building statistical models to enhance theability of sales teams to do accurate forecasting and capacityplanning. The requirements Essential: - Strong problem-solvingskills in probability and statistics. - Ability to dive deep intothe business context and translate data into actionable insights. -Capability to manage projects end-to-end and produce good outcomeswithout much supervision. - Proficiency with data manipulation andmodelling tools — e.g., pandas, statsmodels, R. - Experience withscientific computing and tooling — e.g., NumPy, SciPy, R, Matlab,Mathematica, BLAS. - Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics orequivalent. Bonus: - Experience implementing solutions in aproduction environment (e.g., continuous integration). - Experiencewith Python. (Note: we mostly work in Python.) - Experience withBayesian statistics. The salary We expect to pay from £70,000 -£90,000 for this role. But, we’re open-minded, so definitelyinclude your salary goals with your application. We routinelybenchmark salaries against market rates, and run quarterlyperformance and salary reviews. The culture At iwoca, we prioritisea culture of learning, growth, and support, and invest in theprofessional development of our team members. We value thought andskill diversity, and encourage you to explore new areas of interestto help us innovate and improve our products and services. Theoffices We put a lot of effort into making iwoca a great place towork: - Offices in London, Leeds, Frankfurt, and Berlin with plentyof drinks and snacks. - Events and clubs, like bingo, comedynights, yoga classes, football, etc. The benefits - Medicalinsurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership. - Aprivate GP service (separate from Vitality) for you, your partner,and your dependents. - 25 days’ holiday, an extra day off for yourbirthday, the option to buy or sell an additional five days ofannual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave. - A one-month, fully paidsabbatical after four years. - Instant access to externalcounselling and therapy sessions for team members that needemotional or mental health support. - 3% pension contributions ontotal earnings. - An employee equity incentive scheme. - Generousparental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you savemoney. - Electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme. - Twocompany retreats a year, we’ve been to France, Italy, Spain, andfurther afield. And to make sure we all keep learning, we offer: -A learning and development budget for everyone. - Company-widetalks with internal and external speakers. - Access to learningplatforms like Treehouse. #J-18808-Ljbffr
