Senior Data Scientist (mfd) Remote (based in Romania)

Next Lotto GmbH

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profile Job Location:

Bucharest - Romania

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 15 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

A small piece of paper with numbers that have the power to change a life forever! Okay... lets replace the paper with an app and one person with 500000 monthly users. This is our business!

Your Mission

As Senior Data Scientist (m/f/d) - Build decisioning and optimization models that measurably improve how we allocate budgets choose placements prioritize experiments and personalize user communication - while meeting production-grade engineering standards (reliable pipelines monitoring and safe deployment). This role exists to turn data into automated or semi-automated actions across marketing and adjacent business functions.

Your Tasks & Responsibilities

  • Build prediction models (e.g. conversion/CPA forecasts propensity/LTV churn risk creative or placement performance signals) with strong validation and calibration.

  • Build decision policies: rules constrained optimization (and bandits where appropriate) for allocation placements pacing creative rotation and personalization.

  • Design and analyze experiments/incrementality tests to validate models and policies (not just offline metrics).

  • Productionize with MLE-quality: reproducible pipelines versioning monitoring alerting and safe rollback; partner closely with Engineering/Data.

  • Translate outputs into decision-ready guidance and clear trade-offs (expected impact uncertainty constraints).

  • Maintain concise documentation of models/policies data dependencies and decision logic.


Your Goals in This Role

  • Within 1 month: Deliver a first working Decisioning MVP (one high-impact optimization use case) that produces actionable recommendations on a weekly cadence with documented assumptions and evaluation.

  • Within 2 months: Have 2 decision models/rule systems running in production-like operation (scheduled monitored versioned) influencing real decisions (budget/placement/creative/personalization).

  • Within 34 months: Launch a personalization or allocation model that is validated via experimentation (holdout/A-B) and shows measurable lift vs. baseline policy.

  • Within 6 months: Operate a repeatable pipeline for continuous learning (re-training/refresh monitoring guardrails) and ship at least 4 high-impact decisioning/optimization improvements used by teams.

Your Key Competencies

Must-have
  • Strong applied ML statistics (modeling evaluation calibration leakage prevention uncertainty-aware thinking).

  • Experience building decisioning/optimization (constraints policies experimentation-driven iteration; bandits a plus).

  • Solid engineering fundamentals: clean code testing mindset reproducible pipelines monitoring/alerting and secure handling of data/secrets.

  • Strong data skills: SQL Python feature engineering data QA and working with warehouses/lakes.

  • Ability to run end-to-end delivery: problem framing model/policy validation rollout measurement.

Nice-to-have
  • Ads/marketing domain (DSPs/walled gardens attribution/MMP concepts) and/or personalization (CRM/push).

  • Causal inference / uplift modeling experience.

Your Soft Skills

  • High ownership: ships measures iteratesdoesnt stop at analysis done.

  • Strong stakeholder communication: explains trade-offs uncertainty and rollout risks clearly.

  • Pragmatic prioritization under ambiguity; focuses on highest ROI levers first.

  • Calm structured execution (production-quality over clever hacks).

  • Collaborative mindset with Engineering/Data/Marketing/Finance.

Your Impact in This Role

  • Higher ROI and fewer wrong moves through evidence-based allocation and optimization.

  • Faster learning cycles via experimentation-backed model iteration.

  • Reduced manual decision work through reliable decisioning systems and guardrails.

  • A scalable foundation for personalization and automation beyond marketing.

Your Background Education & Experience

  • Masters Degree in Computer Science Data Science Statistics Mathematics Econometrics or Business Informatics (or equivalent proven skill).

  • 510 years experience in Data Science / Applied ML with at least one example of models/policies used in production.

  • Proven experience working with engineers on production constraints (monitoring reliability safe deployment).

What we offer you:

Remuneration & work-life balance:
  • Competitive salary and trust-based working hours.

  • Private health insurance.

  • Generous training budget.

  • 2 extraordinary team events (4 days) per year.

  • Meal benefit.

Communication & trust:
  • Open honest and direct communication. Your ideas are welcome!

  • A feedback meeting every quarter to help us grow together.

  • We encourage innovation and are open to new ideas that push the boundaries.

Modern working:
  • Everything you need for your daily work: MacBook monitor headphones and more.

Individual training:
  • One training day per month and a generous training budget for your personal development.

Buddy program:
  • An experienced team member will support you from day one to help you get started.

The team
  • We are a colorful bunch from different nations and backgrounds. We dont distinguish by religion gender age marital status... For us the focus is on what you can do!

Our values:

MAKE IT HAPPEN
  • Drive results - Own the problem the goal and the outcome through self-organization and decisions backed by data

  • Speak up with courage - Challenge ideas and raise issues directly when it matters

  • Getting things done - Be pragmatic keep momentum and bring the energy

  • Deliver quality impact - Ship solutions that move our mission and strategic goals forward

WIN TOGETHER
  • Communicate openly and respectfully - Be transparent assume positive intent and set aside own ego when interacting with others

  • Help others win - Proactively share knowledge time and strengths in an interdisciplinary set-up

  • Work across cultures - Learn from others perspectives and actively refine own style for trust-based collaboration in a diverse team

  • Bring team spirit - Create moments of joy and belonging that fuel big outcomes together

SHAPE THE FUTURE
  • Experiment to learn - Run tests measure outcomes treat mistakes as an invitation to learn and adapt insights into action

  • Spot opportunities - Stay close to customers and market trends to identify whats next

  • Build user-first innovation - Deliver trustworthy data-driven solutions and services that set the bar

  • Grow yourself - Challenge and reflect on the way you work seek feedback and keep developing your skills


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