Senior Data Scientist - Marketing FullTime London (ApplyNow) ...

Trainline plc
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About us: We are champions of rail, inspired to builda greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enablesmillions of travellers to find and book the best value ticketsacross carriers, fares, and journey options through our highlyrated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. Great journeysstart with Trainline Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app,with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annualticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies inover 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is assimple, seamless, and affordable as it should be. Today, we're aFTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris,Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth inthe UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on thishigh-speed journey. Introducing Data Science & Analytics atTrainline Data Science & Analytics (DSA) is central to how webuild products, delight our customers and grow our business. OurData Scientists are embedded alongside Data Analysts incross-functional teams which exist across product and marketing.Data Scientists have a high degree of autonomy and are empowered todrive the success of their teams, using all data and techniques attheir disposal. As a Data Scientist, you will be involved indriving insights and strategy for the product team, creating andmeasuring value through experimentation, creating focus throughmetrics and goals, and building deep learning about what is mostimpactful for each team. You will be able to determine theunderlying dynamics of our complex ecosystem and use this todeliver insights and strategic direction, but your main focus willbe a complete obsession with driving impact within the productteam, drawing on whatever analytical and statistical techniquesthat will unlock the most benefits. Data Science and Analytics atTrainline exists within the wider data organisation as part of thetech org, and is complemented by data engineering teams, dataplatform teams, and ML teams for when deep ML and AI techniques arerequired. Our autonomous model creates a huge opportunity forpersonal influence and impact – as the data scientist on the teamyou will be actively driving innovation on the team by contributingto strategy, execution and continuous learning. As a Senior DataScientist at Trainline, you will... As a Senior Data Scientist inour Marketing DSA team, you’ll be working in a fast-paced and agileenvironment, working with large marketing budgets to drive growthat Trainline. Furthering our understanding of return on investmentin a privacy first world whilst understanding how we perform in acomplex and competitive marketing landscape presents manyopportunities to develop and hone new methodology whilst having abig impact on the business. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will beresponsible for influencing product and business outcomes, have theautonomy to make things happen and must obsess about havingbusiness impact. More specifically you will: - Develop deepunderstanding of our product experiences and opportunities forgrowth. - Actively contribute to roadmap and goals for the productteam. - Drive regular cross functional team reviews to measureprogress toward goals. - Discover and articulate new productopportunities helping shape the team's direction. - Support productexperiments, launches, growth through data-driven decision makingwhile keeping the team accountable and impactful. - Define focusthrough metrics to enable a broad spectrum of learning fromexperimentation/release cycles. We'd love to hear from you if youhave... - 5+ years commercial experience using data science andanalytics to drive business decisions. - Ability to distil andcommunicate results of complex analysis clearly and effectively toall levels including senior management. - Experience of productengagement evaluation and measurement of success. For example,running A/B tests to evaluate product effectiveness or usingfront-end data to quantify the effectiveness of new features andhow it changes user engagement. - Ability to navigate data sets ofvarying complexity/ambiguity and conduct analysis to derive clearinsights and actionable results. - Strong PowerPoint andpresentation/communication skills. - Strong data visualisationskills using tools like Tableau, Spotfire, Power BI etc. -Expertise in predictive modelling, including both parametric (e.g.logit/probit) and non-parametric (e.g. random forest, neural net)techniques as well as wider ML techniques like clustering / randomforest (desirable). - Tech Stack: SQL, Python, R, Tableau, AWSAthena + More! More information: Enjoy fantastic perks like privatehealthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroadpolicy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, extra festive time off, andexcellent family-friendly benefits. We prioritise career growthwith clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learningbudgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and superchargeyour career from day one! Our values represent the things thatmatter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, ineverything we do: - Think Big - We're building the future of rail.- Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey. -Travel Together - We're one team. - Do Good - We make a positiveimpact. We know that having a diverse team makes us better andhelps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender,ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity ofthought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places towork, where everyone belongs and differences are valued andcelebrated. Interested in finding out more about what it's like towork at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram andGlassdoor! #J-18808-Ljbffr

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