Data Scientist
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Job Summary
Help us use data and machine learning to help people cook better eat smarter and waste less from the comfort of your home in Portugal with the option to join us in our Lisbon office for collaboration days.
About Marley Spoon
Were Marley Spoon a food-tech company on a mission to make home cooking easy joyful and more sustainable. Since 2014 weve grown into a global meal kit platform delivering flexible personalised recipes to customers across six countries.
Behind every box is a network of intelligent systems built by lean cross-functional teams who care deeply about customer experience sustainability and quality. Our Data Tribe plays a key role in making that happenone model one insight one experiment at a time.
About the Role
As a Data Scientist in our Data Tribe youll work at the intersection of machine learning and practical business impact. Youll collaborate with Product Marketing Engineering and Operations to build models and tools that power how we personalise plan and continuously improve our customer experience.
This is a hands-on role with room to learn experiment and grow. Youll have real ownership across the lifecycle of your workfrom framing the problem to building and validating models to deploying and monitoring them in collaboration with our engineering and product teams.
In your first 612 months success might look like:
Improving the way we recommend meals and content to our customers.
Helping teams make better decisions through robust forecasting and experimentation.
Delivering models that are used in production and demonstrably support core business outcomes.
What Youll Do
Design build and improve personalisation and recommendation models that tailor meal kits recipes and content to each customers tastes and behaviours.
Develop and maintain forecasting and planning models that help us predict demand optimise logistics and reduce food waste.
Support retention and marketing initiatives with churn prediction CLV modelling and campaign optimisation.
Explore and apply newer technologies (e.g. LLMs generative AI) where they add real value in close partnership with product and engineering.
Help design and analyse A/B tests and experiments ensuring decisions are backed by solid evidence.
Work end-to-end on your models: from data exploration and feature engineering through validation deployment (with our engineering partners) and performance monitoring.
Collaborate closely with other Data Tribe members to share knowledge review work and evolve our data science practices.
About You
You enjoy making models that are useful not just elegant and youre curious about the why behind every problem. Youre collaborative thoughtful and comfortable working in an international environment.
Must-haves
Around 3 years of experience in applied data science or a similar role.
Solid knowledge of machine learning statistics and time-series modelling; experience with recommender systems is a plus.
Proficiency in Python and SQL and hands-on experience with common ML libraries (e.g. scikit-learn PyTorch XGBoost).
Experience working with modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake Looker Airflow or similar tools).
A sense of ownership: you care about the quality reliability and impact of the solutions you deliver.
Ability to explain complex ideas in simple clear language to non-technical stakeholders.
Nice-to-haves
Experience in subscription e-commerce or consumer products businesses.
Previous work on personalisation recommendations or customer lifecycle topics.
Exposure to LLMs or generative AI in real product use cases.
Experience working in Agile cross-functional product teams.
If you dont meet every single point but feel you could grow into this role wed still like to hear from you.
How We Work Location Remote & Collaboration
This role is remote within Portugal.
Youre welcome (but not required) to join us in our Lisbon office for collaboration days workshops and social activities.
We work mainly during standard CET business hours with flexibility to balance focused work meetings and life outside of work.
We value outcomes over hours and trust people to manage their time responsibly.
Whats In It for You
The chance to work on meaningful problems that connect directly to how people cook and reduce food waste.
A supportive cross-functional environment where data product and engineering work closely together.
Opportunities for learning and growth through feedback experimentation and exposure to different business areas.
A culture that values impact collaboration and sustainable ways of working.
Benefits:
Hybrid work policy (remote office).
22 annual leave days 2 days extra days for every year of tenure (up to 6).
5 training days per year.
Private health insurance provided by Tranquilidade.
Food allowance of 7.62/worked day under by Coverflex.
24/7 confidential employee assistance program.
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Immunoassays
- Machine Learning
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Research Experience
- Spectroscopy
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Data Analysis Skills
About Company
In 2014 Marley Spoon launched as a meal kit delivery service featuring fresh high quality ingredients and easy-to-follow recipes. Each box is personalized to a customers unique taste with the ability to customize recipes with upgrades protein swaps gluten-free options and so much more ... View more
