Data Scientist, Operations Research

Stockholm, Sweden

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Wolt

Wolt delivers from the best restaurants and stores around you.

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About Wolt 

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to your home or office. Wolt is not just a delivery app – we’re a technology company building a commerce platform to seamlessly connect our millions of customers with thousands of merchant and courier partners, in real-time across 23 countries and 250+ cities. Our apps (iOS and Android) have the industry’s highest ratings, largely thanks to our customer-first-mindset, which shows in how we build products and run operations. In June 2022 we officially joined forces with DoorDash. Combined, we have a presence in 27 countries, 23 of which operate with the Wolt brand and app. Wolt and DoorDash continue largely independently, with Wolt’s name, brand, product, technology and team.

Working in Product Development at Wolt

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people. 

The behind the scenes of Wolt is run by an awesome bunch of over 400+ planners, builders, designers and data crunchers. We call ourselves Product+, as we’re the very core of Wolt’s products, tools and platforms. To build our products, we work in over 40 cross-functional, independent and autonomous teams. Teams are made up of a mix of talented individuals: engineers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and product leads. Each team takes ownership for solving customer problems in the best possible way.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together!

Job Description

Analytics at Wolt is a business-critical competence team that covers three different teams — data science, product data analytics and business intelligence. In 2022 we’re going to further scale our data science operations at Wolt.  We're now looking to double our current Data Science team and searching for Data Scientist, Operations Research to join our competence team of 40+ professionals working from Helsinki, Tallinn, Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm all united by our excitement to put Wolt’s valuable data assets into everyday use. 🥳

What you will be doing as a Data Scientist, Operations Research at Wolt

Logistics is one of the more complex parts of Wolt’s business and is a crucial building block of Wolt’s technology platform. Our logistics platform is responsible for courier task allocation, and generating delivery estimates that our customers, couriers, and merchants see. A more efficient logistics platform would benefit everyone in our ecosystem: our 130 000+ courier partners, our 60 000+ merchant partners, and our 18+ million customers. 

The logistics platform is being developed by a cross-functional team and by a mix of Data Scientists, Optimization Algorithm Developers, and Backend Engineers. It connects Courier Partners to tasks through our in-house route optimization service, which in turn relies on the delivery estimates that we generate for each step of the delivery process. All the different parts of the system come together to automatically manage customer expectations and delivery efficiency.

You would work as an embedded Data Scientist, Operations Research in the Logistics Optimization team, which owns the route optimizer, and the delivery estimates - your focus would be on the optimizer. You would have an impact on Wolt’s overall business as a key player in envisioning and finding new ways to increase our delivery efficiency while keeping our customers happy with accurate estimates, and keeping our couriers engaged with a steady stream of tasks. As an operations research expert, you would find where potential problems lie through data analysis and would work with the rest of the team to get proposed changes implemented. You’d then plan and implement the live logistics experiments needed to verify the hypotheses, and understand the business impact of the changes.

Qualifications

  • You have plenty of hands-on experience with production-level operations research projects. From identifying opportunities and developing hypotheses, to finding ways to validate and test them, ultimately driving their implementation and measuring the impact.
  • You’ve worked with experimentation before, designing, implementing and analyzing experiments (AB-testing and switchback experiments)
  • Demonstrated ability to improve highly complex systems/solutions working together with experts from other fields
  • You’ll have fluent programming skills in Python, which is our main language for data science projects, and experience with databases (SQL). And you’re comfortable with the rest of the tools of the trade.
  • You’re analytical and curious, we’re looking for a self-starter with a drive to get things done. Also as well a good communicator, willing to collaborate with people in- and outside of the team
  • Ideally, you’ll also have a degree in a field relevant to operations research or data science 
  • We value delivery logistics business understanding, preferably deep domain experience.

Additional Information

The position will be filled as soon as we find the right person, so make sure to apply as soon as you realise you really, really want to join us!

If you want to check up on your application or have any further questions about the position, you can turn to Talent Acquisition Partner / Analytics, Marco Ohde at any given time.

 

Our offering to you  

  • Small yet growing data science team around you so there will be plenty of opportunities for you to grow as a Data Scientist.
  • You can choose the location from our tech hubs Helsinki or Berlin, or you can work entirely remotely anywhere in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. You have the chance to decide the ways of working —· a hybrid, at the office, or remote within the location above. 💙 Read more about our remote setup
  • In addition to our country-specific benefits, our compensation package includes a monthly salary based on your expertise and stock options. . 🚀
  • At Wolt, you’ll get to work in a company culture where we take ownership beyond the obvious, do common things uncommonly well, we think big but stay humble, do right by people, we treat others kindly and justly, recognise that if we don’t learn, we won’t stay still but fall behind and keep in mind that Luke was Yoda’s greatest achievement. Read more about how we work. 🤩

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: Business Intelligence Data analysis Data Analytics Python Research SQL Testing

Perks/benefits: Equity Home office stipend

Region: Europe
Country: Sweden
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