Applied Scientist - Fashion Recommendations
- Employer
- Zalando
- Location
- Berlin
- Closing date
- 6 Oct 2020
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- Function
- Technology
- Level
- Manager
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Job Details
As an Applied Scientist in the Fashion Recommendations Team, you will design, implement and deliver recommender systems that will create personal and engaging recommendations for our users.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Fashion Recommendations Team is at the core of Zalando's browsing experience and fashion discoverability. Our purpose is to play a key role in making Zalando the starting point of fashion by providing recommendations that meet our customers' fashion needs and wishes while understanding their unique style, preferences and interests.
In this role, you will: design ML solutions that serve our customers' needs; build data pipelines and models using, for example, AWS, Python and TensorFlow; define hypotheses and A/B test them to validate your use case; and deploy solutions into production to serve more than 33 millions of customers
You will be part of a talented cross-functional team made up of Applied Scientists, Data Engineers and Backend Engineers. You will also count with the support of Product Managers and Designers to create the customer experience that you will deliver.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Fashion Recommendations Team is at the core of Zalando's browsing experience and fashion discoverability. Our purpose is to play a key role in making Zalando the starting point of fashion by providing recommendations that meet our customers' fashion needs and wishes while understanding their unique style, preferences and interests.
In this role, you will: design ML solutions that serve our customers' needs; build data pipelines and models using, for example, AWS, Python and TensorFlow; define hypotheses and A/B test them to validate your use case; and deploy solutions into production to serve more than 33 millions of customers
You will be part of a talented cross-functional team made up of Applied Scientists, Data Engineers and Backend Engineers. You will also count with the support of Product Managers and Designers to create the customer experience that you will deliver.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- Apply your expertise to solve real-life ML use cases that impact millions of customers
- Design and implement models and data pipelines that scale up to serve thousands of requests per second during Black Friday
- Contribute to the team's roadmap by creating an incremental delivery plan for our use cases
- Work together with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver impactful solutions that change the way our customers buy fashion
- Keep up to date with the state of the art in recommender systems and contribute to the data science community both internally in Zalando and externally in meetups and conferences
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Ph.D. or, M.Sc. and 4 years of working experience
- Great coding skills in Python, Java and / or Scala, and hands on experience with TensorFlow and cloud computing frameworks
- Deep understanding of theory behind the state of the art methods in your domain (deep learning is a plus) as well as a broad overview of machine learning methods and best practices.
- Professional experience working with recommender systems is a plus
- Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties and events
- Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
- Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
- Relocation assistance for internationals, PME (Partner für Mitarbeiter-Effizienz) family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations)
Company
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.
Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.
Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.
- Fashion Store
Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
- Offprice
The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
- Zalando's Private Labels
Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
- Zalon
Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
- Zalando Marketing Services
The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
- Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
- Zalando Partner Services
Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.
With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.
Company info
- Website
- https://jobs.zalando.com/
- Telephone
- +49 (0)30 2759 4693
- Location
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Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany
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