Senior Data Scientist, loveholidays
Tue-Thurs in the office
3 days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
Holiday booking service
Be an early applicant
Holiday booking service
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Tue-Thurs in the office
3 days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Loveholiday's mission is to create the ultimate online travel experience.
Role
Who you are
- We're on the hunt for a driven individual who employs a scientific approach to data, where the following qualities are paramount:
- Excellent problem-solving skills: Tackle a wide array of challenges through independent work and collaboration
- Innovation and curiosity: Work across the business to understand challenges and develop practical solutions
- Self-starter: Identify issues and opportunities independently, constantly seeking to learn and innovate
- Team player: Collaborate effectively, accept feedback, and provide mentorship
- Communication skills: Influence stakeholders and articulate data science concepts to non-technical audiences
- Designing experiments and modelling to generate actionable insights and enhance business performance
- Proficient in machine learning and statistical methods for predictive modelling and forecasting
- Experience deploying ML models to production at scale
- Solid understanding of SQL
- Proficiency in unit testing, CI/CD, model management and experiment tracking
- Leading E2E projects, from inception, planning/prioritisation to delivery including monitoring and alerting
Desirable
- Experience with Deep Learning, Generative AI and Reinforcement Learning
- Experience with Time Series Forecasting and Recommender Systems
- Previous experience working in e-commerce, retail, or the travel industry
- Conducted and analysed large scale A/B experiments
- Experience with technologies such as:
- Google Cloud Platform, particularly Vertex AI
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience mentoring team members
What the job involves
- Our Data Science team comprises seven members, including two Senior Data Scientists, four Data Scientists, and the Head of Data Science
- We specialise in various areas such as Recommender Systems, Time Series Forecasting, Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning, fostering a collaborative learning environment
- Our focus is on modelling and problem-solving, leveraging advanced machine learning techniques to create solutions to challenging business problems
- We prioritise clean, well-tested code with a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing. Our tech stack includes GCP, Python, GitHub, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and XGBoost
- With mature infrastructure and dedicated teams for Data Engineering, Analytics, and Platform Engineering, our Data Scientists enjoy high autonomy. We tackle interesting datasets, set up large-scale experiments, and implement growth strategies with NO red tape
- Quarterly OKR planning ensures that priorities are clearly defined and teams are aligned on objectives
- Reporting to the Head of Data Science, the Senior Data Scientist will play a pivotal role in propelling loveholidays forward. Positioned within a team of passionate data enthusiasts, you'll be instrumental in shaping our data-driven strategies and outcomes
- Researching and developing new models and techniques to tackle key business challenges
- Overseeing the production and maintenance of systems
- Conducting code reviews and collaborating on various projects across teams
- Providing mentorship and coaching, facilitating career growth within the team
- Engaging in project rotation for a fresh perspective and sustained engagement
- Proposing new initiatives and collaborating in team OKR crafting
- Participating in morning stand-ups and weekly prioritisation meetings
Application process
- TA screening - 30 mins
- 1st stage with Hiring Manager - 45 mins
- Take-home exercise presentation - 1 hour
- Final stage with key stakeholder/s including a task to present, in office - 1 hour
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Travel, both domestic and overseas, has been a huge part of the British economy since the late 20th century. In 2019, UK residents spent £43 billion on foreign holidays - almost double the amount spent a decade before.
Despite travel companies suffering considerable reputation damage back in 2020, as they struggled to refund customers whose booked holidays were suddenly cancelled, the appeal of companies like loveholidays to holidaymakers will undoubtedly endure seeing as they make the process of booking holidays much easier.
In the nearest future, loveholidays will need to focus on maintaining its reputation, especially given the wide array of direct competitors who could steal market share. At present, however, loveholidays is still one of the fastest growing online travel agents. If it can keep up the practices which have brought it success over the past 10 years, loveholidays is still in a good position to keep its growth strong for few years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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44% female employees
39% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"The company has made a deliberate decision to invest in great engineers and give us the autonomy and accountability to pick the best tool for the..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2016
$3.8m
EARLY VC
May 2011
$2.6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $6.4m
Company benefits
- Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Company pension contributions at 5%
- Individual training budget for courses, seminars and memberships to professional bodies
- High degree of autonomy in a strong collaborative environment
- Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers
- Hybrid working with 3 days working in our office (London) and 2 days WFH per week
- Sustainably sourced fruit baskets in the office kitchen
- Increased annual leave for long service
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- Enhanced maternity pay = 6 weeks of full pay and 20 weeks at 50% pay
- Enhanced paternity pay = 4 weeks of full pay
Company values
- We are entrepreneurs - We’re proudly commercial, we do more with less, we own the decisions we make and the actions we take
- Everything is written in pencil - As we grow, we think smaller, act quicker and continuously evolve the way we organise our work
- We organise for speed - A flat structure with small teams, allows us to move quickly
- We believe in Team - We’re all in it together
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jonny Marsh
(Non Executive Director)An engineering graduate from the University of Bath, Jonny is also the founder and ex-CEO of nmqa Ltd and co-founder of travelmatch. He served as Loveholiday's COO until 2019.
Alex Francis
(Non Executive Director)Founded travelmatch in 2007 and then loveholidays in 2012, quickly becoming the fastest growing business in the UK by 2019. Now acting as a non-exec for the business since stepping down as CEO in 2020.
People progressing
Joined as UX/Design Manager in 2011, promoted 3 times in 10 years to current position of Lead User Researcher, having previously worked as Senior Product Designer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at loveholidays
Clodagh Beatty (Head of Talent Management, Learning & DE&I)
- We recently hired a Head of L&D, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to support us in our ongoing commitments to creating an inclusive environment, as well as providing growth opportunities for all our employees
- We want all applicants to feel they can belong at loveholidays
- We have employees from all walks of life and we are only interested in assessing your skills, attitude and talent!
- We support Employee Resource Groups - recently launched our Women's Network at loveholidays
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