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Data Science Manager - Content and Advertising Economics

Employer
Zalando
Location
Helsinki
Closing date
4 Jul 2022

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Function
Editorial & Media
Level
Manager
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Job Details

Content and Advertising economics is working on creating great customer experiences with advertising. We do so by building a fair and explainable marketplace, optimizing long-term value for customers and brands. We are running millions of ad auctions per day for each of our 45+ million customers and are building innovative, scalable and value-creating products on sound scientific foundations.Our real-time auction systems are blending content from best organic candidates with content from our fashion partners to create an engaging and economically optimized customer experience. Our algorithmic systems are designed to optimize for the whole customer lifetime rather than immediate interactions.

As a Data Science Manager, you will lead a team of Software and Data engineers and constantly collaborate with Data Scientists and Data Analysts to develop and deploy scalable auction, optimization and prediction algorithms. Our research problems are at the intersection of Optimization, Econometrics, Causal Inference, Auction theory and Machine Learning. You will provide a clear vision and strategy for Data Science engineering for your team. Your contributions are expected to help shape Zalando's overall Data Science community, consisting of more than 150 scientific experts.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Develop and execute mid- & long-term vision and architectural direction to create highly scalable solutions for our ad and content platform, leveraging insights in Optimization, ML and Econometrics..
  • Build customer-centric products in collaboration with Product Managers, Software Engineers, Applied Scientists and Designers to optimize and quantify the impact of algorithmic and human decisions at scale.
  • Lead solution design and development to challenging problems, such as improving the prediction of customer actions and real-time recommender systems, long-term lift estimation and unified auction design.
  • Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse talent to your team and transform the landscape of Zalando's Visibility Marketplace. Also, drive and build healthy inclusive teams promoting diversity.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • A solid background (MSc, PhD or comparative experience) in a quantitative scientific discipline with a strong understanding of statistics, machine learning and/or econometrics applied in a commercial context of end-to-end development lifecycle of data-driven products. Experience in Advertising/ECommerce and background in Economics is a plus.
  • Experience leading and developing cross-functional engineering and science teams. You have effective communication skills in English, with an ability to understand and translate business and user requirements across teams.
  • Experience with highly distributed, scalable and resilient software development with an understanding of an overlap between software engineering and applied science.
  • Experience with online learning, whole-page recommendation, contextual bandits, long-term lift estimation, causality or reinforcement learning is a plus.
  • Focus on people, maintaining trustful relationships with your team, leading them and setting a high standard as an example.

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
ABOUT ZALANDO
It's the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey, from being a pioneer in the world of e-commerce, to the starting point for fashion in Europe. We connect customers, brands, and partners across 23 markets.

Help us drive digital and sustainable solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 46 million active customers through a team of diverse skill-sets, cultural backgrounds, and interests.

Our values: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-founding-mindset

do.More - our sustainability strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/sustainability

Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/insidezalando

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.

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
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Telephone
+49 (0)30 2759 4693
Location
Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
 Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany
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