Senior Data Scientist, TheFork
3+ days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation platform
Posted today
Online restaurant reservation platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's favourite restaurants and the broadest community of loyal diners.
Role
Who you are
- You are working in an autonomous, proactive and accountable way: you don’t wait to be told what to do
- You demonstrate an obsession towards excellence: you systematically consider that good is not enough and constantly consider how to improve and reach the next level of quality, performance and impact
- You play agile and fast: delivering in a fast-paced environment is an easy business for you. You are comfortable to manage several topics in parallel, with different stakeholders involved
- You bring the outside in: seeking excellence, you have developed habits to benchmark and consider how other companies are doing, what best practices could be source of inspiration and systematically consider how they can apply in your specific business context
- You act as a team player, communicating efficiently and thinking collectively rather than individually (you can see the value brought by these collective concerns)
- You have a Master’s Degree of an Engineering School with a specialization in mathematics, computer science or Data Science / a PhD in mathematics, physics or computer science
- You have at least 6 years of experience as a Data Scientist (at least 3 years for a PhD)
- You have a strong experience related to integration of Machine Learning in a B2C/B2B product used by millions of customers (like marketplaces)
- You have excellent analytical skills, involving data analysis and modeling, you are able to modelize complex problems, find the best insights in large datasets and summarize findings in a clear and actionable way
- You have a deep knowledge and industry experience in Deep Learning and at least one of the following topics : Computer Vision, Ranking, NLP, Search, Recommendation
- You have an excellent coding skills in Python and SQL in order to develop POCs then work on their industrialization and integration in the product with Product & Engineering teams
- Strong knowledge about Data Science industrialization (ML Engineering) and MLops best practices
- Experience with AWS is a nice to have
- Your English is professional
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be part of the Data Enlightenment team (including Data Scientist, Software Engineers and Product Managers) having the mission to “empower TheFork with a strong data foundation and culture, leveraging Data Science and AI, leading to disruptive marketplace innovations”
- You will report to the Data Science Manager and be part of a team of 3 other Data scientists
- As a key player of the Data Science team, you will be onboarded within one product team to help them accelerate their strategy and related projects thanks to Data Science/ML/IA
- You will have the opportunity to work on TheFork B2C (website/app) and B2B (TheFork Manager) products.
- You will develop a deep understanding of TheFork value proposition for B2C/B2B customers in order to deliver best in class data products involving ML/IA and integrated within our Product
- Build recommendations algorithms to be integrated on our app / website
- Improve the way restaurants are ranked in our search engine
- Build an agentic system to answer diner questions
- Leverage GenAI to generate restaurant description from reviews
- Generate text descriptions from images to improve our restaurant knowledge
- High business value for projects deployed in production
- Build with your product team impactful projects around personalization, search, product content, forecasting, GenAI… to be delivered in production
- You’ll work closely with product managers, software engineers, ops and other data stakeholders in order to deliver well shaped, monitored and actionable projects for B2C/B2B end users
- Scalable and performant assets
- All the assets produced to deliver these projects should be scalable, performant and cost efficient. Anyone in the team could be onboarded quickly and maintenance costs should be low
- Bring the Data Science team to the next level
- Data Enlightenment team upskilled around Deep Learning and at least one of the following application fields : Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Ranking, NLP, Search, Recommendation…
- ML technical stack improved in order to support the team growth and new projects requirements
Our take
TheFork's platform plays a significant role in the digitisation of the hospitality industry by offering users a seamless way to select restaurants based on their preferences, read user reviews, check real-time availability, and make instant online reservations.
In addition to serving customers, TheFork also partners with restaurants by providing them with TheFork Manager, a software solution designed to optimise reservation management and streamline operations, This software helps restaurants improve their service and boost revenues by making their operations more efficient and responsive to customer demands.
A TripAdvisor company, TheFork has made significant contributions ot the global dining industry, partnering with 60,000 restaurants, achieving 30M app downloads, and attracting over 400M users. Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2022, the company has cemented itself as a top player in the space, with future projects including a product for small and family-run restaurants, to support them as the industry becomes more competitive and complex.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A permanent contract (that can be useful in life)
- Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week + up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to wrok fully remotely)
- Lunch vouchers available 3 working days per week
- Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc
- Continuous learning and development programs
- Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey
- Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)
- Health insurance
- Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee
- Attractive pension plans
- Amazing offices with dining, a coffee point on each floor, and leisure area
- Team building events
Company HQ
Saint-Merri, Paris, France
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Leadership
Almir Ambeskovic
(CEO, not founder)Prior to being appointed as CEO, they were Vice President of Sales and Marketing for TheFork. They have also directly led several countries as General Manager at TheFork since 2015.
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