Centre of Excellence Lead — Data Science & Machine Learning

Too Good To Go

At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. 40% of all food produced in the world is wasted. And that has a huge impact on the health of our planet, with 10% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from food waste.  We’re more than an app: we are a certified B Corporation with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste, so alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions - such as our Retail Technologies offering, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste. WE’RE GROWING FAST: OUR COMMUNITY OF 133 MILLION REGISTERED USERS AND 261,000 ACTIVE PARTNERS ACROSS 21 COUNTRIES, HAVE TOGETHER ALREADY PREVENTED 517+ MILLION MEALS FROM GOING TO WASTE - AVOIDING OVER 1.397.000 TONNES OF CO2E! Your mission We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Product Analytics and Center of Excellence team at Too Good To Go. In this role, you will help build and scale data science capabilities across product and business domains, enabling smarter, more automated, and more impactful decision-making. As a marketplace, many of our most critical challenges revolve around supply-demand dynamics, user behavior, and marketplace efficiency. You will work on problems such as personalisation, optimisation, and forecasting, helping us move from reactive analysis to proactive, model-driven systems. You will work as part of the Center of Excellence, partnering closely with Product, Analytics, and business teams through high-impact, project-based collaborations. Your role * Partner with Product and business leaders to identify high-impact opportunities where data science can drive step-change improvements * Develop and deploy machine learning models and statistical methods to solve problems such as: Personalisation and recommendation systems, Marketplace optimisation (e.g. ranking, matching, supply-demand balance) and Demand and supply forecasting. * Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable models, algorithms, and data products * Design and contribute to experimentation and measurement frameworks to evaluate impact * Collaborate closely with Product Analysts, ML Engineers, and stakeholders within the Product Analytics and Center of Excellence, working in an embedded, project-based model * Take end-to-end ownership, from problem framing to model development and impact evaluation * Contribute to building data science best practices, tools, and standards across the company  Requirements * Master’s degree or PhD in Data Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Econometrics, or a related field * Strong experience applying machine learning and statistical modeling to product or business problems * Experience in at least one of the following areas: Personalisation / recommendation systems, Marketplace or optimisation problems, Forecasting (time series or causal) * Strong programming skills in Python and solid proficiency in SQL * Experience with experimentation (A/B testing) and impact measurement * Ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and translate them into structured solutions * Strong communication skills — able to influence product and business stakeholders * High ownership and comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment * Fluent in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Our values * We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We believe in a #oneteam. * We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another. * We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple. * We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving.  * We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing. What We Have To Offer * An opportunity to work in a global social-impact company and certified B Corporation! where you can see a real and tangible impact in your role. * To be an integral part of our Data & Analytics team. We are eager for you to make an impact and contribute to the role of analytics across key decisions and our solution processes. Your insights are valuable, and we are here to listen. * Work-life balance is important to us! Focus on the job to be done, not the hours spent, there is no need for overtime. * We trust in our employees and encourage an autonomous environment that provides several opportunities for employees to contribute, develop and take ownership of their work in a way that works for them. * To be part of an international company, with over 1,300+ colleagues across 19 countries that are on the same important mission. * An informal environment, working alongside 170+ passionate people within Tech & Product * We celebrate our differences and our successes and have a strong values-driven team culture. * We work in a hybrid set-up and value in office work weekly. * We may be able to support you with a working visa in Copenhagen, please be prepared to discuss this topic further as your first stage interview. How to apply * We take recruitment very seriously, so please carefully read everything we have written above. Please also check our website and international media in order to get a good overview of Too Good To Go. * Submit your CV in English. * Please note that we only accept applications coming through our platform. No CV will be accepted by email or LinkedIn direct messaging. Job Ref: #LI-CT1 A Movement for Everyone We want to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. With that mission, it’s only natural that we want to build a diverse and inclusive team of highly capable individuals who are passionate about doing things in a better way. We strongly believe we all excel and are more creative when we’re allowed to be ourselves, and we’re committed to a culture where all of us belong. We are an equal opportunity employer and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Rippling Sweden AB

Job Title: Head of Design Reports to: Chief Strategy Officer Direct Reports: Design team (~10 direct reports), including Product Designers, UX Researchers, and Consumer Insights Lead Purpose of the Role The Head of Design is the most senior design leader within the organisation, responsible for setting and executing the design vision, strategy, and standards across all consumer-facing digital products and experiences. This is a strategic leadership role that extends well beyond traditional design management — the role holder operates as a key member of the senior leadership team, working directly with the CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, and other C-suite executives to shape company direction, product strategy, and growth initiatives. The Head of Design is accountable for building and leading a high-performing design organisation, driving innovation through AI-augmented design practices, and ensuring that design functions as a strategic capability that de-risks business decisions through rapid prototyping, consumer research, and evidence-based experimentation. Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership & Executive Partnership • Define and own the design vision and strategy for the organisation, ensuring design is embedded at the centre of product development, content strategy, and commercial decision-making. • Partner directly with the CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, and senior leadership team on company-direction initiatives, contributing design perspective to business strategy, market positioning, and growth planning. • Lead the transformation of the design function from a production-oriented service into a Research & Development capability, where every strategic bet is validated through design-led prototyping and consumer evidence before full investment. • Represent Design at executive forums, board presentations, and cross-functional leadership meetings, advocating for user-centred decision-making and design-led innovation. Design Organisation & Team Leadership • Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary design team of approximately 10 professionals spanning product design, UX research, and consumer insights. • Establish and maintain design hiring standards, career progression frameworks, and professional development programmes to attract and retain top design talent. • Foster a culture of design excellence, creative rigour, and continuous learning within the team and across the broader organisation. • Drive AI adoption and AI-augmented design workflows across the team, achieving high levels of productivity through modern tooling and automated processes. Product & Experience Design • Oversee the end-to-end design of the organisation's digital product portfolio, including financial comparison tools, recommendation engines, editorial content experiences, and emerging AI-powered advisory products. • Own the design system architecture and component library, ensuring consistency, accessibility, scalability, and brand coherence across all platforms and touchpoints. • Lead the design strategy for new product initiatives, including AI chat assistants, personalised financial wellness tools, and machine-learning-optimised content experiences. • Ensure all design output meets the highest standards of usability, accessibility (WCAG compliance), performance, and visual quality. Innovation & AI Integration • Pioneer the integration of AI and machine learning into the design workflow, including AI-first design systems that connect design components directly to AI coding tools to eliminate inconsistencies and accelerate development. • Lead the development of LLM-optimised content templates and information architectures that ensure content is structured for both human consumption and machine-readable citation by large language models. • Drive design innovation through rapid prototyping, consumer testing, and iterative experimentation, enabling the organisation to validate ideas at low cost before committing engineering resources. • Identify and evaluate emerging design technologies, tools, and methodologies that can provide competitive advantage. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence • Partner with Product, Engineering, Editorial, Growth, SEO, and Data Science teams to ensure design thinking is integrated across all workstreams and business decisions. • Collaborate with commercial and partnerships teams to design consumer experiences that drive revenue growth, lead generation, and partner engagement. • Establish and lead cross-functional design review processes, ensuring alignment between design direction and business objectives. • Act as the primary advocate for consumer needs within the organisation, embedding consumer insights and user research evidence into strategic planning and prioritisation. Required Skills & Qualifications • Proven track record of building and leading high-performing design teams within technology, media, or financial services organisations. • Demonstrated ability to operate at a strategic level, influencing business direction and product strategy alongside C-suite executives. • Deep expertise in design systems, component architectures, and scalable design practices for multi-product digital platforms. • Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies and their application to design workflows, content strategy, and product innovation. • Expert proficiency in Figma and modern design tooling, with working knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React/TypeScript) and data-informed design practices. • Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate design thinking into commercial value. • Experience with consumer financial services, comparison platforms, or content-led digital products is highly desirable.

Tide

ABOUT TIDE At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love. Tide facts: * Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs * Over 2 million members: 900,000 UK and 1,100,000 in India and growing rapidly * Over $300 million raised in funding * Over 2,800 Tideans globally * Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026 * We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg ABOUT THE TEAM: The Ongoing Monitoring team sits at the core of Tide’s trust and safety ecosystem, building the systems that power our fraud detection, financial risk, and regulatory compliance capabilities. As Tide continues to scale, the team is responsible for designing and evolving intelligent, resilient, and adaptive platforms that protect our members and keep the business safe. Working closely with Product, Data Science, Design, Compliance, and Operations, the team combines deep technical expertise with a strong focus on member experience, ensuring that our risk and monitoring capabilities are both effective and intuitive. This is a high-impact area at a pivotal stage of Tide’s growth, offering the opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven fraud and risk management at scale. ABOUT THE ROLE:  As Head of Machine Learning you will: * Define and execute a risk engineering strategy: develop plans that align with Tide’s long-term vision to ensure that our approach to risk supports rapid and compliant growth. * Lead a team of talented managers and engineers: foster a culture of excellence, innovation, user-centric design, and collaboration in our engineering team. * Build and scale risk infrastructure: architect and scale foundational risk systems to support real-time decision-making, effective data management, and advanced fraud prevention. * Develop self-service tools for internal teams: empower product, compliance, and risk operations teams with extensive and user-friendly risk tooling, enabling independent monitoring and management of risk processes and reducing dependencies for day-to-day operations. * Support compliance and regulatory standards: collaborate with legal and compliance experts to keep Tide a compliance leader in an evolving regulatory climate. * Champion data-driven risk management: lead initiatives to leverage data and machine learning in fraud detection and compliance, providing Tide with actionable insights and automated solutions that improve our resilience. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: * Proven leadership in engineering: 12+ years of engineering experience with at least 2 years in a senior leadership role (e.g., head, director, or senior manager), ideally within fintech or regulated technology environments. * Risk and compliance expertise: deep experience in fraud prevention and compliance (KYC/KYB, AML), ideally within the financial services industry. * Machine Learning: Strong experience in supervised and unsupervised models, decision trees, neural networks, and Large Language Models (LLMs). * Agent Frameworks: Hands-on experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen) used to build self-correcting compliance workflows. * Fintech Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of fraud vectors (e.g., mule accounts, account takeovers, synthetic identity fraud) and AML typologies. * Adversarial AI Security: Proven track record in detecting deepfakes, synthetic identities, and prompt injection attacks targeting financial systems. * Risk/Scale: Minimum 3+ years building and deploying production-grade, risk-scoring environments at scale. * Experience with fintech platforms -  risk/compliance tooling (AML, Fraud, Financial Risk, SARs, KYX, agentic AI detections ) * Excellent people leadership skills – you know how to grow and inspire teams. * Solid technical foundations: cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, and data platforms (AWS or GCP). WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN: Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans:  * Competitive Compensation -  competitive salary and share options * Time Off – Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays. * Parental Leave – Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support your family journey. * Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide. * Health Insurance – Private family insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options. * Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection. * Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops. * Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth. * Learning & Development – Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more. * WOO (Work Outside the Office) – Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually. * Home Office Setup – Contribution towards setting up your home office * Laptop Ownership – Keep your old laptop and get a new one when it’s time for a replacement. * Snacks & Meals – Office perks with snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch (location dependent). TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams.  While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives.  We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.   At Tide, we thrive on diversity, embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success, helping us build products that meet our members' diverse needs. We are One Team, committed to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard.   Disclaimer   It has come to our attention that individuals or agencies are falsely claiming to represent Tide and are reaching out to candidates regarding job opportunities. Please be aware that: * Tide does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. * All official Tide job opportunities are listed exclusively on our Careers Page and applications should be submitted through this channel. * Communication from Tide will only come from an official @tide.co email address. * Tide does not work with agencies or recruiters without prior formal engagement, and we do not authorize third parties to make job offers on our behalf. If you are contacted by anyone misrepresenting Tide or requesting payment, please treat it as fraudulent and report it to us immediately at talent@tide.co Your safety and trust are important to us, and we are committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process.   Tide leverages AI to enhance our hiring experience. You can read more about how we use AI in our recruitment process in our AI Policy. Your personal data will be processed by Tide for recruitment purposes and in accordance with Tide's Recruitment Privacy Notice.