Senior Data Scientist

Carwow

OUR MISSION To become the car-changing destination of choice. By combining technology, media and deep automotive expertise, we've turned how people buy, sell, advertise and lease cars on its head. What started as a simple reviews site is now one of the largest online car-changing destinations in Europe. Last year alone we grew over 50% with nearly £3bn worth of cars bought on site, while £1.8bn of cars were listed for sale through our Sell My Car service. In 2024 we went big and acquired Autovia - creators of AutoExpress and Evo magazines - doubling our audience overnight. Together we now have one of the biggest YouTube channels in the world with almost 10m subscribers and over 1.1 billion annual views, while we sell 1.2 million print copies of our magazines and have an annual web content reach over 350million. And we’re a long way from done! THE ROLE We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our award-winning Data Science team at a pivotal moment. Carwow operates a two-sided marketplace — connecting car buyers and sellers at scale — and data science sits at the heart of how we make that marketplace smarter, faster, and more valuable for everyone in it. In fact, we recently won GenAI initiative of the Year at the British Data Awards. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role working centrally across the business. You'll partner with teams spanning Commercial, Marketing, Product, Finance, Engineering and Operations — developing and deploying ML and AI solutions that drive outcomes across both sides of our marketplace. The problems you'll work on are genuinely varied: pricing models, propensity and demand signals that sharpen marketing spend, personalised recommendations for our web product and CRM, and LLM-powered solutions for operational challenges like document verification. You'll translate ambiguous business problems into structured, production-ready solutions — and you'll be expected to deliver them end-to-end, from first principles through to being deployment-ready and beyond.   WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING * End-to-End ML & AI Delivery: Lead data science initiatives from problem framing through to deployment, monitoring, and iteration — delivering the full production lifecycle. With no dedicated ML engineering function, you'll be responsible for ensuring your solutions are robust, scalable, and performing in the real world long after they ship. * GenAI & LLM Application: Design and build LLM-powered solutions where they create genuine business value — document processing, intelligent search, content understanding, and beyond. Apply them alongside classical ML with clear judgement about where each approach earns its place. * Commercial Impact: Connect your work directly to business outcomes. Whether you're building a model to improve marketing efficiency, a pricing signal to sharpen commercial decisions, or a recommendation engine to increase conversion — you understand the business lever you're pulling and design your solutions accordingly. * Prototyping & Experimentation: Move fast to test ideas before committing to full-scale development. Define rigorous success metrics upfront, validate honestly, and know when to double down and when to walk away. * Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with Commercial, Marketing, Product, Finance, Engineering and Operations stakeholders to understand problems deeply before reaching for a solution. Translate findings into clear, actionable narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences. * Standards & Craft: Contribute to shared best practices, documentation, and ways of working that raise the bar for the data science function — and help more junior team members grow alongside you. Drive continued adoption of AI capabilities to drive efficiencies, automation and constantly leverage new capabilities. WHAT YOU'LL NEED Please note: We know that no candidate will be the perfect match for all we've listed in this posting, so we’d encourage you to apply if you feel you're close to the brief but not an exact match. Ideally you’ll have * Commercial Mindset: You think about business impact first. You understand how your models connect to revenue, efficiency, or customer outcomes — and you use that to prioritise, scope, and communicate your work. * Stakeholder Partnership: Proven ability to work with commercial, marketing, and product stakeholders — translating business problems into well-scoped solutions and communicating technical solutions, challenges and outcomes clearly at all levels. * Sound Judgement: You navigate the tooling landscape with clear eyes — knowing when classical ML is right, when GenAI unlocks something new, and when a simpler solution is the more honest answer. Strong instincts for scalability, reliability, and explainability. * [Bonus] Marketplace or Two-Sided Platform Experience: Understanding of supply/demand dynamics and how data science creates leverage in a marketplace context. TEHCNICAL SKILLSET * Proven ML Experience: A strong track record of building, deploying, and maintaining ML models in Python in a production environment — not just notebooks. You've owned models after they ship and know how to keep them healthy. * Full-Lifecycle Delivery (MLOps): Comfortable delivering the end-to-end production lifecycle — model training, versioning, monitoring, and champion/challenger experimentation — without relying on a dedicated ML engineering team to carry that responsibility. * GenAI & LLM Expertise: Hands-on experience building LLM-powered solutions that deliver measurable business value. You understand how to apply, evaluate, and extend these tools — and you're honest about where they fall short. * Technical Depth: Solid experience in a cloud ML environment with software engineering principles — version control, code reviews, unit testing, and familiarity with containerisation. * Quantitative Rigour: Strong foundation in statistical evaluation and experiment design. You can define and defend success metrics, and you know when a model is degrading and what to do about it. * [Bonus] Experience with VertexAI TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES * Languages: Python, SQL * Data & Transformation: dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery * Visualisation & BI: Looker * Engineering & MLOps: Docker, GitHub * Workflow & Orchestration: Vertex AI Pipelines (GCP), Kubeflow * LLMs & GenAI: Gemini API, Claude API INTERVIEW PROCESS * Step 1: People Team Screening Call (30 min) * Step 2: Hiring Manager Call: Experience (45 min) * Step 3: Technical Task: covering both Modelling & Production with Presentation (60 min + Task) * Step 4: Values Interview (45 min) WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU * Hybrid working * Competitive salary to fund that dream holiday to Bali * Matched pension contributions for a peaceful retirement * Share options - when we thrive, so do you! * Vitality Private Healthcare, for peace of mind, plus eyecare vouchers * Life Assurance for (even more) peace of mind * Monthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner * Enhanced holiday package, plus Bank Holidays * 28 days annual leave * 1 day for your wedding * 1 day off when you move house - because moving is hard enough without work! * For your third year anniversary, get 30 days of annual leave per year * For your tenth year anniversary, get 35 days of annual leave per year * Option to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year * Work from abroad for a month * Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies * Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones * The latest tech (Macbook or Surface) to power your gif-sending talents * Up to £500/€550 home office allowance for that massage chair you’ve been talking about * Generous learning and development budget to help you master your craft * Regular social events: tech lunches, coffee with the exec sessions, lunch 8 learns, book clubs, social events/anything else you pester us for * Refer a friend, get paid. Repeat for infinite money Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally.

Faculty

WHY FACULTY? We established Faculty in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we’ve worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. You can read about our real-world impact here. We don’t chase hype cycles. We innovate, build and deploy responsible AI which moves the needle - and we know a thing or two about doing it well. We bring an unparalleled depth of technical, product and delivery expertise to our clients who span government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence. Our business, and reputation, is growing fast and we’re always on the lookout for individuals who share our intellectual curiosity and desire to build a positive legacy through technology. AI is an epoch-defining technology, join a company where you’ll be empowered to envision its most powerful applications, and to make them happen. ABOUT THE TEAM Our Public Services Business Unit is committed to leveraging AI for the benefit of individual citizens and the public good. From our work informing strategic government decisions, to optimising our NHS, through to reducing bureaucratic backlogs - we know that AI offers opportunities to drive improvements at every level of Government and we are proud to lead on some of the most impactful work happening in the sector. Because of the nature of the work we do with our Government clients, you may need to be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work on site with these clients from time to time. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead high-impact AI projects and shape the technical direction of bespoke solutions. This role requires hands-on technical excellence combined with crucial team leadership. You will define data science approaches, design robust software architectures, mentor junior colleagues, and ensure delivery rigour across projects all while building deep client relationships and solidifying our reputation as a leader in practical, measurable AI. #LI-PRIO WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: * Leading project teams that deliver bespoke algorithms and high-stakes AI solutions to clients across the sector. * Conceiving the core data science approach and designing the associated robust software architecture for new engagements. * Mentoring a small number of data scientists and supporting the professional growth of technical team members on projects. * Partnering with commercial teams to build client relationships and shape project scope for technical feasibility. * Contributing to Faculty’s thought leadership and reputation through delivering courses, public speaking, or open-source projects. * Ensuring best practices are followed throughout the project lifecycle to guarantee high-quality, impactful delivery. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR: * You possess senior experience in a professional data science position or a quantitative academic field. * You demonstrate strong programming skills, with the ability to be a fluent Python programmer, using core libraries (NumPy, Pandas) and a deep-learning framework (e.g., PyTorch). * You have a deep expertise in core data science paradigms (supervised/unsupervised, NLP, validation), demonstrating a proficiency across the standard data science toolkit, including the ability to develop new, innovative algorithms. * You bring a leadership mindset, focused on growing the technical capabilities of the team and nurturing a collaborative culture. * You exhibit commercial awareness, with experience in client-facing work and the ability to translate business problems into a rigorous mathematical framework. * You are skilled in project planning, assessing technical feasibility, estimating delivery timelines, and leading a team to deliver high-quality work on a strict schedule. OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS 1. Talent Team Screen (30 minutes) 2. Take Home Technical Assessment 3. Technical Interview (90 minutes) 4. Commercial Interview (60 minutes) OUR RECRUITMENT ETHOS We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one. We know that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth. And we know from experience that diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live. We’re united by a deep intellectual curiosity and desire to use our abilities for measurable positive impact. We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations. Some of our standout benefits: * Unlimited Annual Leave Policy * Private healthcare and dental * Enhanced parental leave * Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working * Sanctus Coaching * Hybrid Working If you don’t feel you meet all the requirements, but are excited by the role and know you bring some key strengths, please don't hesitate in applying as you might be right for this role, or other roles. We are open to conversations about part-time hours.

Genius Sports

By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalized than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com.   The Role  You will join a team of data scientists developing the next generation of Genius Sports’ market leading sports models. These models act as the sporting brain behind many of Genius’s customer facing products, calculating the probabilities of outcomes across a wide range of sports.   How will you work?  Join a specially formed, highly skilled team delivering an innovative & intelligent product! Forming part of a multi-disciplinary Agile team of Software Engineers, Data Scientists, QA Engineers and a Product Manager, you will look to work closely to the fundamental principles of continuous delivery and empowered, high-performing teams.     We operate in a squad model to allow focus on the business top priorities, allowing exposure across multiple products while still maintaining strong ownership of your team’s domain.  If you are looking to tackle hard problems, collaborate with high calibre engineers and deliver smart solutions with an autonomous & performance focused approach that supports success, delivery & quality, then this is for you.    As a Senior Data Scientist, you and your team will play a major role in developing and implementing predictive models across all major sporting codes. You will prototype, implement, evaluate and optimize algorithms to calculate the probabilities of sporting outcomes.  What skills do you have?  * A BSc, MSc or PhD in Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computational Statistics, Machine Learning or other STEM subject  * Expert understanding of probability and statistics fundamentals  * Proficiency with Python or other scripting/programming languages (R, Matlab, etc)  * Expertise in a broad range of data science / machine learning algorithms (Monte Carlo simulation, neural networks, logistic regression, random forest, etc.) with a proven track record of delivering solutions to complex problems.  * Ability to bring clarity to complex domains, rapidly developing a deep understanding and challenging unclear requirements. You lead conversations that drive alignment and uncover edge cases others might miss.  * Mentoring of other team members, helping them develop their skills and deliver effectively    It is advantageous for you to have knowledge of the following:    * Sports rules and strategies  * Sports betting  * Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) covering the full life cycle from model creation, deployment (Gitlab, AWS, Docker) and retraining  * Data engineering  * Rust, C++, other programming languages  * Real-time systems and/or high-performance computing  What we expect from our co-workers    * Curiosity and strong desire to learn and improve  * Social skills, being able to act as a facilitator, can balance enabling others with individual contributions.  * Time management and asynchronous communication skills relevant for a geographically diverse engineering organization  * Enthusiasm and ability to work collaboratively within a team  * Excellent spoken and written English  * Adherence to our core engineering principles of Aligned Autonomy, Psychological Safety and Continuous Improvement  We enjoy an ‘office-first’ culture and maximize opportunities to collaborate, connect and learn together. Our hybrid working models differ depending on your role and location. Occasional travel may be required.  As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career. Learn more about how rewarding life at Genius can be at Reward | Genius Sports. One team, being brave, driving change   We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference. Learn more about our values and culture at Culture | Genius Sports.   Let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.