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Head of Data Science (They/She/He) in Barcelona

Glovo

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Job Description

We’re a Barcelona-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Africa, and Western Asia. With food at the core of the business, Glovo delivers any product within your city at any time of day.

At Glovo, you’ll have the job of your life while working together towards our shared vision to give everyone easy access to anything in their city. We welcome top performers that will bring new ideas, diverse perspectives, and provide you the opportunities and freedom to grow and make a real impact on millions of lives… all while having fun!

We believe that diversity adds incredible value to our teams, our products, and our culture. We know that the best ideas and solutions come by bringing together people from all over the world and by fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone feels heard and has the chance to make a real impact. It's because of this that we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example: she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

YOUR WORK-LIFE OPPORTUNITY:

Glovo’s vision is to give everyone easy access to anything in your city. Most of this vision is enabled by data, from providing customers with the right content (recommendations, ranking and personalization in general) to optimizing the assignments of orders to couriers (forecasting, routing, matching) through automatically offering the best service (customer compensation, gamification of couriers job).

Glovo has been heavily investing in Data Science for the last few years, now having a community of over 60 Data Scientists and more than 50 models in production. Not only that, we have our own Machine Learning Platform and feature store, all developed in house.

We are looking for a Head of Data Science to continue evolving the Data Science craft at Glovo, setting the vision for AI & ML and guiding the community towards high impact projects that give Glovo unfair advantages over their competitors. You will own the vision and strategy for Data Science and organize our talent to meet Glovo’s vision.

BE A PART OF A TEAM WHERE YOU WILL:

  • Actively collaborate with your colleagues and learn from each other in a supportive environment that allows you to grow, develop and make a difference
  • Create strategic plans to define the evolution of Data Science, in which areas to invest, and where not to invest.
  • Guide and develop the senior team within the area and help build solid teams across the company.
  • Upskill, enable and incubate talent within the company
  • Build and develop the Data Science community
  • Develop, test and productionize predictive algorithms by using state of the art machine learning algorithms and statistical model
  • Lead and manage a team of data scientists at multiple levels
  • Act as a strategic and operative part of Glovo's Data Science recruitment process
  • Disseminate outcomes through talks as well as papers and posters in conferences

YOU HAVE:

  • Experience in leading a data team of 15+ people in international companies
  • Experience in leading all kinds of data science related projects
  • Experience in a start-up and/or R&D environment
  • Ability to distill cross-organization business acumen into high impact AI/ML solutions
  • Ability to build key relationships and having the ability to communicate and present complex ideas to very senior stakeholders and get buy-in
  • Significant experience working with large data sets
  • Expert in Python
  • Significant experience with big data (e.g. Scala and Spark) and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Get stuff done attitude: you have a can-do attitude, are comfortable working with limited resources under tight deadlines, thrive in an unknown environment and are not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty
  • Proficiency in English is a must

We are always looking for the best candidates, so if you think you would be a good fit even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements we would love to hear from you!

EXPERIENCE OUR GLOVO LIFE BENEFITS:

  • Enticing equity plan
  • Top-notch private health insurance
  • Monthly Glovo credit to spend on our restaurant products and zero delivery fee on all Glovo orders!
  • Cobee discounts on kindergarten, transportation, and food
  • Discounted gym memberships
  • Flexible time off (take the time you need) and hybrid working model (own your time)
  • Enhanced parental leave including nursery support!
  • Online therapy and wellbeing benefit
  • External learning budget

WHAT YOU’LL FIND WHEN WORKING AT GLOVO:

  • Gas: Driven to deliver quality results quickly
  • Care: Uplift people and the planet
  • Good Vibes: Bring positivity and communicate openly
  • Stay Humble: Self-aware and open to learning
  • Glownership: Act as proud owners
  • High Bar: Focus on Top Performance

If you believe you match these values, we look forward to meeting you!

 

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