Data Scientist, Marketing FullTime London

Trainline plc
London
3 weeks ago
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About us: We are champions of rail, inspired to builda greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enablesmillions of travellers to find and book the best value ticketsacross carriers, fares, and journey options through our highlyrated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. Great journeysstart with Trainline Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app,with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annualticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies inover 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is assimple, seamless, and affordable as it should be. Today, we're aFTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris,Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth inthe UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on thishigh-speed journey. Data Scientist London (Hybrid, 40% in office)Introducing Data Science & Analytics at Trainline Data Science& Analytics (DSA) is central to how we build products, delightour customers and grow our business. Our Data Scientists areembedded alongside Data Analysts in cross-functional teams whichexist across product and marketing. Data Scientists have a highdegree of autonomy and are empowered to drive the success of theirteams, using all data and techniques at their disposal. As a DataScientist, you will be involved in driving insights and strategyfor the product team, creating and measuring value throughexperimentation, creating focus through metrics and goals, andbuilding deep learning about what is most impactful for each team.You will be able to determine the underlying dynamics of ourcomplex ecosystem and use this to deliver insights and strategicdirection, but your main focus will be a complete obsession withdriving impact within the product team, drawing on whateveranalytical and statistical techniques that will unlock the mostbenefits. Data Science and Analytics at Trainline exists within thewider data organisation as part of the tech org, and iscomplemented by data engineering teams, data platform teams, and MLteams for when deep ML and AI techniques are required. Ourautonomous model creates a huge opportunity for personal influenceand impact – as the data scientist on the team you will be activelydriving innovation on the team by contributing to strategy,execution and continuous learning. As a Data Scientist atTrainline, you will... As a Data Scientist in our Marketing DSAteam, you’ll be working in a fast-paced and agile environment,working with large marketing budgets to drive growth at Trainline.Furthering our understanding of return on investment in aprivacy-first world whilst understanding how we perform in acomplex and competitive marketing landscape presents manyopportunities to develop and hone new methodology whilst having abig impact on the business. As a Data Scientist, you will beresponsible for influencing product and business outcomes, have theautonomy to make things happen and must obsess about havingbusiness impact. More specifically you will: - Develop deepunderstanding of our product experiences and opportunities forgrowth. - Actively contribute to roadmap and goals for the productteam. - Drive regular cross-functional team reviews to measureprogress toward goals. - Discover and articulate new productopportunities helping shape the team's direction. - Support productexperiments, launches, growth through data-driven decision makingwhile keeping the team accountable and impactful. - Define focusthrough metrics to enable a broad spectrum of learning fromexperimentation/release cycles. We'd love to hear from you if youhave... - 2+ years commercial experience using data science andanalytics to drive business decisions. - Ability to distil andcommunicate results of complex analysis clearly and effectively toall levels including senior management. - Experience of productengagement evaluation and measurement of success. For example,running A/B tests to evaluate product effectiveness or usingfront-end data to quantify the effectiveness of new features andhow it changes user engagement. - Ability to navigate data sets ofvarying complexity/ambiguity and conduct analysis to derive clearinsights and actionable results. - Strong PowerPoint andpresentation/communication skills. - Strong data visualisationskills using tools like Tableau, Spotfire, Power BI etc. -Expertise in predictive modelling, including both parametric (e.g.logit/probit) and non-parametric (e.g. random forest, neural net)techniques as well as wider ML techniques like clustering / randomforest (desirable). - Tech Stack: SQL, Python, R, Tableau, AWSAthena + More! More information: Enjoy fantastic perks like privatehealthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroadpolicy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, extra festive time off, andexcellent family-friendly benefits. We prioritise career growthwith clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learningbudgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and superchargeyour career from day one! Our values represent the things thatmatter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, ineverything 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 positiveimpact. We know that having a diverse team makes us better andhelps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender,ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity ofthought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places towork, where everyone belongs and differences are valued andcelebrated. Interested in finding out more about what it's like towork at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram andGlassdoor! #J-18808-Ljbffr

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