Lead Data Scientist to Wolt’s Personalization team!

Company Description

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!

#LI-MARCO

Job Description

We're looking for an awesome someone to join Wolt in this brand new role as a Data Science Lead, Personalization in Finland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, or Estonia (your choice). We have a small yet growing team of Data Scientists in place working closely with their colleagues from engineering, product and analytics to have a visible impact on how our 18+ million customers experience Wolt by making sure we surface relevant content and recommendations. The personalization team develops methods and algorithms for selecting and presenting the most relevant content for our customers based on their preferences at any given time, at any given place.

This 👆 is where you come in. We're looking for someone to take the helm of the data science team lead role and the domain of Personalization Data Science. This is a cross-functional team where data scientists work together with engineers, designers, and product and analytics people owning this domain end to end. The engineers and other people have their own leads. Your focus is going to be on the data science side.

You know what it takes to scale data science as a function, take exceptional care of exceptional people, and above all, take our data science to the next level, meaning that you would also work hands-on owning machine learning use cases as part of that team. You'll also be a facilitator and an enabler for the team to do what they do best by making personal development plans, hosting regular 1on1s, and so forth. We’ll be looking for you to facilitate the future of data science at Wolt, whether that’s hiring new team members, levelling up data science across the company, or helping the organization to understand the possibilities of data science and machine learning.

Join us to build that future! 🚀

Qualifications

What we hope from you is that you first and foremost identify yourself as a data science enthusiast. Solving problems and making a business impact via data science is what makes you jump for joy!

• You have previous experience from building personalization and recommendation solutions with a measurable impact. You understand how to build data products, and deeply care about the end user experience.
• You also understand what it takes to build production-level ML solutions, and can help the team members with technical challenges.
• We would also like you to have strong experience in leading a technical data science team to make sure we keep on improving our data science best practices at Wolt while taking care of our people. 
• You have previous experience from making personal development plans, hosting regular 1on1s, and taking part in the recruitment.
• You have plenty of previous hands-on experience with production-level data science projects (from prototyping to maintaining and improving production-ready solutions) 
• Deep understanding and experience with machine learning and a solid understanding of statistics
• You’ll also need to be the representative of your function towards the rest of the organization, so strong communication and presentation skills are needed.
• Lastly, as this is a team effort you have to be a strong cultural leader that cares for the well-being and constant improvement of your team members and represents Wolt values as your daily work.

Our offering to you

• Company culture: You would get to work in a company culture where we take ownership beyond the obvious, do common things uncommonly well, think big but stay humble, do right by people, treat others kindly and justly, and recognize 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.
• Building Data Science direction at Wolt: Lots of room to build the direction of data science at Wolt. You will have a small yet growing data science team around you - we’re aiming to almost double the size of our current Data Science team in 2022, so there will be plenty of opportunities for you to grow as a people lead and as a Data Scientist.
• Choose your work format: Onsite at our main tech hubs in Helsinki or Berlin, onsite at our offices in Stockholm or Tallinn, fully remote within any of our five Product+ countries or a hybrid of working from the office and home - best of both worlds. 
• Relocation support: If you are not based in Finland, Germany, Denmark, Estonia or Sweden, we offer relocation support to move to Finland or Germany! 🌍
• Compensation and benefits: In addition to our country-specific benefits, the compensation is a combination of monthly pay and Doordash RSUs. The latter makes it exceptionally easy to be excited about our company growing and doing well, as you'll own a piece of the pie. 🙌

Additional Information

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 & Data Science Marco Ohde, at any given time. 👋