Applied Science Manager - Outfit Inspiration - Machine learning and Deep Learning
- Employer
- Zalando
- Location
- Berlin
- Closing date
- 14 Feb 2022
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- Function
- Operations
- Level
- Manager
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Job Details
The Outfits teams create experiences which aim to redefine fashion inspiration by providing high quality, personalized, engaging and inspiring content for millions of customers and making Zalando be the go-to style companion everywhere in Europe.
As an Applied Science Manager, you will lead a team of exceptional scientists and engineers that develop algorithms and engineer cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning products that enhance the experience of our +42M customers. You will be responsible for ensuring successful design, development, testing, experimentation, and the operations of algorithms, datasets, and systems your team owns, delivering department-wide and cross-department projects in collaboration with several teams. You will work with other science and engineering leaders, product managers and other stakeholders to make sure that we are investing in the right opportunities. You are a strong people leader who will effectively coach a cross functional applied science science team and will help to develop, coach and grow our talented group of scientists.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
PERKS AT WORK
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
As an Applied Science Manager, you will lead a team of exceptional scientists and engineers that develop algorithms and engineer cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning products that enhance the experience of our +42M customers. You will be responsible for ensuring successful design, development, testing, experimentation, and the operations of algorithms, datasets, and systems your team owns, delivering department-wide and cross-department projects in collaboration with several teams. You will work with other science and engineering leaders, product managers and other stakeholders to make sure that we are investing in the right opportunities. You are a strong people leader who will effectively coach a cross functional applied science science team and will help to develop, coach and grow our talented group of scientists.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- Bring in your strong scientific and leading experience in managing teams to researching, deploying and architecting machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) based solutions in areas such as recommendations to help our millions of customers in their inspiration journey.
- Manage a healthy, high performing delivery team of scientists, providing direction and context on topics such as customer impact and business requirements, and overseeing all aspects of the delivery lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation, and testing. Coach the team to formulate long term research plans that create customer impact in challenging fashion problems, such as outfit generation, with state-of-the-art solutions.
- Empower the team to stay up-to-date with the latest research and how to apply it into our area. Contribute to our scientific efforts with rigorous peer reviews and through publications in international conferences.
- Scale up, manage and mentor other junior and senior scientists, reviewing and guiding their work and provide them with constructive and actionable feedback. Help us through hiring to keep on bringing talented scientists to the team.
- Work closely with other applied science leaders, product managers and other business stakeholders to bring our state-of-the-art solutions to the customers and to discover and identify new opportunities.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- PhD or MSc (or comparative experience) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or Physics, with extensive experience in research and industry, and leading teams to deliver large scale machine learning and deep learning projects in production.
- Experience developing and coaching teams to generate long term research roadmaps and applying the scientific method to tackle research problems. Strong drive and entrepreneurial spirit to partnering with product, science/engineering managers and principals to connect and solve business problems with scientific solutions.
- Outstanding technical skills and deep understanding of the theory behind the state-of-the-art methods in your domain as well as a broad overview of machine learning and deep learning methods and best practices in their application.
- In addition to technical depth, exceptional project management and communication skills, and experience in successfully leading and coaching scientists, as well as hiring.
PERKS AT WORK
- 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 & 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 family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in selected locations)
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
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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