Zalando

Senior Applied Scientist - Entertainment and Inspiration Team at Zalando

103k - 115k EUR and stock options

4+ years of experience

🇬🇧 Job is in English
🇩🇪 German is not required
Berlin, DE
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Relocation support

Job Description

Our Entertainment and Inspiration Team will set out to solve major customer challenges around inspiration & entertainment in fashion & lifestyle e-commerce as well as helping our customers navigate the challenge of overwhelming choice in our ecosystem!

What you'll do

  • Build systems which steer content visibility on Zalando; shape and manage what Zalando end customers will see; directly increase engagement and retention.
  • Advance the machine learning algorithms that personalize the content selection.
  • Further develop our fair and healthy content selection capabilities that drive long term customer value.
  • Building and running a large scale real-time machine learning system.
  • Generate actionable insights from the data of 51+M customers.
  • Participating in pivotal company project with high impact opportunity.
  • Understand and design an ML product that solves real customer needs.
  • Work with large range of technologies and methods with great opportunities to grow.

What we expect from you

  • Experience with real-world machine learning, recommender and ranking systems
  • In-depth understanding of ML, strong expertise in at least one ML approach area, e.g. linear models, deep learning, recommender systems.
  • Strong theoretical background of machine learning and statistics methods
  • Strong skills in Python & SQL, hands-on experience with Git, working with cloud services (e.g. S3, sagemaker, dynamodb etc.).
  • Experience of building solutions in production together with engineers.
  • Curious about learning new technologies.

What we offer

Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

  • Employee shares program
  • 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners
  • 2 paid volunteering days a year
  • Hybrid working model with 60% (or more) remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration
  • Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
  • 27 days of vacation a year (for Zalando SE)
  • Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
  • Family services, including counselling and support
  • Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
  • Mental health support and coaching available

Technological stack

Python
SQL
AWS
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About Zalando

Industry
Online fashion retail
Employees
1000+

Zalando is a European online fashion platform with a vast range of fashion products for men, women, and children, serving millions of customers across 15 countries with over 1,500 brands and 150,000 product choices. It has rapidly become Europe's top online fashion retailer by continuously improving its processes and leveraging e-commerce expertise, aiming to deliver the world's best online fashion experience. Zalando SE in Berlin, the company's hub, focuses on core product development, international operations, and business growth, spanning management, marketing, administration, and technology functions.