Staff Data Scientist, Veho
Route Building
Next-day package delivery
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Next-day package delivery
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Veho's mission is to reinvent shipping and returns.
Role
Who you are
- Master or PhD in data science, (applied) mathematics, operations research or similar field, plus 5+ years developing and deploying optimization, predictive, and machine learning models
- Strong knowledge of statistical modeling, ML and DS techniques to solve business problems
- Strong practical knowledge of supply chain optimization and forecasting in the logistics or last mile delivery space, implementing large-scale solutions to drive business impact
- Proven experience in leading cross-functional projects with Product, Ops, and Engineering partners
- Software development experience deploying Operations Research and Data Science solutions into production
- Knowledge in operations research concepts such as mixed-integer programming (MIP), network optimization, and simulation
- Expert SQL and Python skills
- Familiarity with the gig economy space (preferred)
What the job involves
- As a Staff Data Scientist - Route Building, you’ll be the senior data scientist responsible for defining, building, and operating sophisticated models to answer hard questions centered around improving our logistics network and user experiences.
- You’ll partner with product managers to understand high-value business problems, build systems that inform daily operations. You’ll work closely with software engineers to operationalize the models you build in the production systems that drive Veho
- Lead projects on our Core Route Building Data Science team, driving projects from a data science methodology and implementation perspective
- Develop and implement models to solve complex problems using operations research, statistics, and machine learning technologies
- Lead our collaboration with functional areas (last mile, middle mile, ground operations, network planning) to develop and optimize our network across the board
- Drive the understanding of our current processes via exploratory data analysis, surfacing high-impact project ideas
- Deep dive into current data science solutions to develop insights and provide recommendations
- Implement improvement initiatives that impact metrics and streamline network operations
- Communicate with technical and business-oriented audiences
Our take
Over 2 million online merchant ship over 165 billion packages to doorsteps across the United States every year. Every one of those deliveries represents a potential difference between happy customers willing to purchase again and refer friends, and a WISMO ("where is my order?!") catastrophe.
Veho is seeking to turn those deliveries from a risk into an opportunity for online brands. The next-day delivery platform leverages a gig economy workforce and its modern communication platform to create a greatly improved last-mile logistics experience for brands and their customers.
Now that the company has been able to build out an impressive technology platform - think optimized routes and driver-customer communication channels - it is now seeking major geographic expansion.
The company is facing competition from both traditional delivery companies like FedEx as well as newer venture-backed attempts to disrupt the space like Deliverr. However, its already impressive economies of scale and customer experience means it is well positioned to dominate the market in the coming years.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$170m
SERIES B
Dec 2021
$125m
SERIES A
Total funding: $303.4m
Company benefits
- Equity in a super fast-growing start-up
- Full Suite of Benefits - Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- Unlimited PTO
- Team meetups, and much more!
Company values
- Ownership
- Candor
- Team Success
- Human
Company HQ
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Leadership
Itamar Zur
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Sales & Customer Success Manager at Monday.com. Before that, worked as a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble. MBA graduate from Harvard Business School.
Fred Cook
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously VP Marketing of P4P Marketing. Before that Co-Founded and was CEO of Gondola. Prior to that, co-founded and was CEO of OneMove, a deliver and transportation company.
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