Principal Data Scientist

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 17 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: GreenChef, EveryPlate, Chef's Plate, Factor, and Youfoodz.

**The role**:
As a Principal Data Scientist at HelloFresh, you will work with our global team of machine learning engineers and data scientists to support one of the fastest-growing e-commerce businesses. Data-driven decision making is at the core of our company culture and you will have a fundamental part in shaping our success extracting insights at petabyte-scale.

**What you'll do**:

- Provide solutions for complex business problems, enabling insights that can empower better decision-making
- Scale an AI and ML platform to support all of HelloFresh. Collaborate with teams across HelloFresh to build innovative AI/ML systems.
- Design and maintain statistical and machine learning models in order to drive critical decisions in multiple areas across the company.
- Explore and analyze customer behavior, digital metrics, and logistics data in order to detect growth and innovation opportunities for the HelloFresh product.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring for multiple teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers.
- Establish and evangelize best practices for Data Science across the organization
- Change the way people eat, forever.

**What you'll bring**:

- Phd / MSc in a scientific discipline with a strong focus on experimentation and causal inference (e.g., Econometrics, Epidemiology / Biostatistics, Neuroscience, Statistics, Political Science, Psychology, Physics)
- 8+ years' experience building machine learning / statistical models
- Ability to develop an in-depth understanding of HelloFresh's core product and architecture, and act as a thought leader for state of the art data science and industry best practices
- Strong, proven track record solving complex business problems with machine learning within a fast-paced business
- Solid grasp of advanced statistical concepts (e.g., Bayesian statistics; multilevel and generalized linear models; timeseries; bootstrapping)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Publications in well-recognized journals and conferences
- Ability to communicate complex analyses to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills

**What we offer**:

- Healthy discount on weekly HelloFresh boxes
- Annual learning and development budget to attend conferences or purchase educational resources plus access to the HelloFresh Academy
- Subsidised childcare with a professional nannying agency
- Free access to Headspace, biweekly in-house yoga classes (remote since March 2020)
- A diverse and vibrant international environment of 70+ different nationalities
- Additional perks include: Free crash course in German, compensation for advanced external German classes, discounts for our neighboring gym & Urban Sports Club, summer & winter parties, discount on our HelloFresh GO vending machines
- The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe in an exciting growth phase

**Are you up for the challenge?**:
For insight into our interview process take a look at our recent post here.

**About HelloFresh**:
We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers' homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work

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