Hands-On Head of Data Science
Espoo
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Join us and create products with an analytical edge! You will be responsible for the overall analytics vision of our company and lead the development of A² Analytics Engine, a critical component of our architecture offering machine learning, forecasting and optimization capabilities to our entire product portfolio. Our primary application area is forecasting the impact and optimization of promotion, pricing and assortment decisions for retail.
You’ll create product concepts together with our Product Management and lead analytics development to make those concepts a reality. You’ll define & prioritize requirements for your team, managing the analytics backlog as an A² Analytics Engine Product Owner. You’ll participate in the development of new and existing analytical models.
This is a key position focusing on our new product line currently at the early pilot stage and targeted for the international market. Your goal is to create forecasting and optimization capabilities that give our solutions competitive advantage together with a competent analytics team already in place.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain analytics vision based on the needs of our Product Managers and the use cases their products solve
- Innovate to gain and maintain analytical edge of our product portfolio
- Plan analytics roadmaps, manage analytics backlog and prioritize it maximizing the value of work done by the analytics team
- Create and maintain mathematical data-driven models used in our solutions
- Oversee analytics development
- Improve and manage analytics processes from ideation to development and operations
- Participate in sales and customer success presenting our analytical edge, learning first-hand about the market need in meetings with prospects and customers
Requirements
You have 5+ years of experience creating analytical models from simple & pragmatic to sophisticated & pragmatic machine learning models.
- Motivation to dive deep in understanding of our customers’ pains, processes and day-to-day realities to envision solutions that work
- Hands-on skills in machine learning, especially predictive algorithms (e.g. factorization models, logistic regression and Gaussian processes), neural networks (Keras, Tensorflow) and GBRT
- Retail domain knowledge especially in the context of retail analytics is a plus
- People skills and excellent communication skills in English (Finnish is a plus), ability to present analytics to business
- Programming and scripting skills: Python (Numpy & Pandas) and SQL
- Ph.D. or post-graduate studies in machine learning is a bonus, but not a requirement
- Team player attitude – you are surrounded by industry experts and product professionals, you need to leverage all their insights
We offer you:
- A position in a growth company at the forefront of modern retail – an excellent chance to learn and grow professionally even for senior talent
- Enthusiastic and innovative analytics team
- Lots of data
- Competitive compensation with extensive health care
- An environment with teams that consider the people & spirit to be our best asset
- Modern premises at Leppävaara with great traffic connections and services
If you got excited about this position and believe that you are the right person, please send us your application and CV in English or Finnish with your salary request on our website 17th January 2021 at the latest.
For more information please contact Jussi Autere, Chief Product Officer, mobile 050-3314285.
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