About us:
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline
Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.
Introducing Data Science & Analytics at Trainline
Data Science & Analytics is central to how we build products, delight our customers and grow our business. Our Data Scientists & Analysts are embedded in cross-functional teams which exist across product and marketing. Data Scientists & Analysts have a high degree of autonomy and are empowered to drive the success of their teams, using all data and techniques at their disposal.
We are looking for aData Science Managerto lead a team of embedded data scientists who partner closely with product, engineering, and machine learning teams to drive decision-making and shape the product roadmap. This is a strategic leadership role focused on enabling impact through others—not a hands-on technical position.
You’ll be responsible for setting direction, supporting prioritization, and fostering a strong test-and-learn culture across your teams. You’ll ensure data scientists and analysts are embedded effectively within product squads, are influencing roadmap decisions, and are building the right frameworks to define success, measure progress, and evaluate performance—including for ML/AI-powered features.
As a key member of the leadership group within your pillar, you’ll collaborate with peers in Product, Engineering, and Commercial to define the long-term vision and ensure data science is contributing to both short-term outcomes and long-term strategy. You’ll also work closely with Data Engineering, BI, and ML teams to align on priorities and advocate for the tools, infrastructure, and data quality needed to support scalable decision-making.
If you’re passionate about developing people, influencing product direction, and embedding data deeply into how teams work, this role is for you.
As a Data Science Manager at Trainline, you will...
Be responsible for influencing product, marketing and business outcomes, have the autonomy to make things happen and must obsess about having business impact. More specifically you will:
- Lead a team of Data Scientists / Analysts
- Drive a high standard of work and hold a high bar for impact within your org
- Mature how we achieve growth in a data driven way across your team
- Lead, with your cross functional counterparts, the strategy and delivery of the Product
- Think big, clearly setting out a strategy and ensuring data driven execution
Our tech stack
- SQL, Python, R, Tableau, Power BI, AWS Athena + more!
More information:
Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!
Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:
- Think Big- We're building the future of rail
- Own It- We focus on every customer, partner and journey
- Travel Together- We're one team
- Do Good- We make a positive impact
We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.
Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out onLinkedIn,InstagramandGlassdoor!
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