Data Scientist

DeepL
City of London
4 months ago
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About the Role

We are hiring a Data Scientist to join our Product Insights team, embedded in one of our Product tracks. Initial focus will be online funnel optimisation and B2C growth.

Your Responsibilities
  • Partner with Product teams to better understand customer journeys, behaviour, and the product problem space
  • Support product decision making and planning with insights and recommendations based on qualitative and quantitative data
  • Recommend, align and implement metrics for Product teams to measure product and business outcomes
  • Support the design and instrumentation of tracking during the product development lifecycle
  • Build and maintain product reporting to measure product adoption, engagement and usage
  • Design, implement and analyse experiments to test hypotheses and measure impact
  • Collaborate across product, marketing and the wider data community to improve your craft and cross pollinate insights from multiple teams
Qualities we look for
  • 3-5 years of experience as a data scientist or analyst, ideally in a product, marketing or growth team
  • Self starter with a preference for fast paced, autonomous teams
  • Good communication skills with the ability to tell compelling stories with data
  • Intermediate SQL – preferably using modern data transformation & orchestration tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow)
  • Experience with third‑party experimentation (eg: Optimizely, Statsig) or product/digital analytics platforms (eg: Mixpanel, Amplitude) would be a plus
  • Experience running A/B tests or experiments in a product team would be a plus
  • (Optional) Python skills for analysis and prototyping, preferably in notebook‑based workflows
  • (Optional) Experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., DataBricks, Snowflake, BigQuery)
What We Offer
  • Diverse and internationally distributed team – joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities
  • Open communication, regular feedback – we value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback
  • Hybrid work, flexible hours – we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week and flexible working hours
  • Virtual Shares – An ownership mindset in every role. Every employee receives Virtual Shares
  • Regular in‑person team events – local team and business unit gatherings, new‑joiner onboardings, company‑wide events
  • Monthly full‑day hacking sessions – Hack Fridays, dive into a project you’re passionate about
  • 30 days of annual leave – 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources
  • Competitive benefits – tailored to align with your unique location
We are an equal opportunity employer

You are welcome at DeepL for who you are – we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward. So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.


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