Delivery Hero
Tech
PrincipalDataScientistVendorRecommendations&AI
“Principal Data Scientist - Vendor Recommendations & AI at Delivery Hero. Skills: Recommendation Systems, Time-Series Modeling, Causal Inference, Next Best Action Framework, Take Rate Optimization. Lead the design, build, and deployment of large-scale AI recommendation systems. Own the architecture and modeling for determining the optimal sequence and timing of actions”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver multi-million-euro business outcomes for the vendor vertical; Maximize vendor success metrics; Optimize key commercial metrics like take rate, vendor LTV, and churn prediction; Balance potentially conflicting vendor KPIs
Industry & Context.
Validate or debunk business hypotheses
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
SQL proficiency, Years of experience
Nice to Have
PhD preferred, GCP Professional Data Engineer certification, AWS Data Analytics certification, Databricks Certified certification, dbt Certified certification
What You'll Do.
and deployment of large-scale AI recommendation systems
Own the architecture and modeling for determining the optimal sequence and timing of actions
Lead all core initiatives in advanced time series modeling for demand prediction
and understanding long-term trends
Act as the technical authority for take rate optimisation
using statistical rigour and causal methods to measure the incrementality and efficiency of all vendor-facing pricing and adtech levers
Act as the primary technical partner for Product
and Commercial teams to validate or debunk business hypotheses and drive alignment on the recommendations strategy
Define a 2+ year technical roadmap for Vendor Recommendation Data Science
Translate complex ML/statistical findings into clear
actionable executive narratives
Mentor Staff and Senior Data Scientists
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-Functional Alignment; Primary technical partner for Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams; Influence the strategic direction of Product, Engineering, and Commercial leadership
Communication Scope
Translating complex ML/statistical findings into clear, actionable executive narratives
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