Senior Data Scientist

A bit about the role.

We're looking for a talentedSenior Data Scientistto join our growing Data & BI team and help us transform the way we use data to optimise marketing and acquisition efforts.

In this pivotal role, you'll partner closely with senior stakeholders across marketing, brand, and acquisition teams to ensure our spend drives maximum impact, while uncovering new opportunities for growth.

We are looking for someone with experience in multi-touch attribution, geo-testing and marketing mix modelling, from model development to optimisation.

Examples of what you will work on include:

1. Design, implement and analyse incrementality tests to measure the true impact of our marketing activity
2. Optimise our mix-media marketing model and using the outputs to help define experimentation across marketing channels
3. Validate the use of predictive LTV as a signal to optimise paid marketing spend
4. Investigate potential sources of channel cannibalisation

A bit about you.

Requirements

1. A strong understanding and background in experimentation and causal inference techniques, including geo-testing.
2. 3-5 years of experience, including experience working with marketing teams to drive growth and optimise marketing channel spend
3. Experience with R and Python for data manipulation, visualisation and statistical model development.
4. Strong competency in SQL
5. Ability to create compelling stories with data to describe and communicate data insights.
6. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to haves

1. Experience building and optimising mix-media models
2. Experience in incorporating predictive LTV signals into paid marketing channels
3. Experience with DBT (data build tool)

A bit about us.

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That's why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.#LI-Hybrid

As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We've come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us.

A bit about what we offer.

1. 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
2. 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
3. £500 personal learning & development budget
4. Butternut Box employee discount
5. Enhanced parental leave
6. Co-working office space.
7. Flexible working hours and work from home options
8. Cycle to work scheme
9. Pension with NEST
10. Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
11. Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
12. Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
13. Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
14. Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
15. Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more....)

Our interview process:

1. Application review
2. Initial call (30 minutes): Quick introductory chat with our Recruiter.
3. Take home task: This will be sent to you via email and will be used to understand more about your technical skills.
4. Technical interview (60 minutes): Remote interview where you'll be asked to run through your task and discuss practical examples from your experience.
5. Final interviews (90 minutes): In-person in our office in West London where you'll get a chance to meet your peers and members of the Senior Leadership team.

Logistics:

1. This team works 3 days per week from our West London office (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) and 2 days from home. This is non negotiable, so please only apply if you're within a reasonable commute of London.
2. We reserve the right to close the position if we receive a lot of applications. We're a small recruitment team so do bear with us - we aim to respond to all applicants personally.
3. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
4. We are not looking for recruitment agency support for this role.

!A few things to note:

1. Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
2. As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance.
3. We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

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