Data Scientist, Vinted
Second-hand fashion marketplace
Job no longer available
Second-hand fashion marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make second-hand fashion the number one choice worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- A proven track record of machine learning project development and deployment in production
- BSc or MSc in a quantitative discipline (statistics, econometrics, mathematics, empirical economics, physics, etc.) and 3+ years of experience in the industry
- Strong interest in the current developments of machine learning applications in the industry, deep learning methods and online experimentation
- Advanced knowledge of Python, extensive experience in PyTorch and/or Tensorflow
- Fluency with SQL and experience with dashboarding tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, etc.)
- Able to effortlessly communicate complex technical and statistical information to business stakeholders
- Bonus: Experience with complex computer vision projects in production
What the job involves
- Contribute to the existing computer vision projects and own the discovery and implementation of new machine learning opportunities
- Improve our data retrieval processes (e.g. explore active learning, training on noisy labels, semi-supervised learning), train and deploy models
- Together with backend engineers, you will ensure high performance and scalability of our deployed models
- Improve the monitoring of our models’ predictions
- Write and own clean and understandable code, make sure it is re-usable where relevant
- Mentor and support data scientists, share knowledge in the Science and Analytics Guild
- Contribute to a culture of curiosity and experimentation
Our take
For many years, the online fashion resale market was dominated by eBay. Vinted, first set up as a local website, has challenged the incumbent market leader by shifting focus towards sustainability.
Vinted has managed to compete successfully with other eCommerce platforms by providing more creative and personalized ways to shop, and focusing solely on fashion. With 75 million users it outstrips other fashion-focused competitors in this space, such as Depop which has roughly half the user base, but it sees its real competition in retailers that sell new clothing.
Vinted has raised significant funding which it has invested into rapid expansion, growing its presence in European markets and scaling up its US operations. While in the short term this has caused its profitability to drop, this expanded market reach is likely to yield dividends in the very near future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2021
$292m
SERIES F
Nov 2019
$149.5m
SERIES E
Total funding: $560.8m
Company benefits
- Opportunity to join our share options programme
- Learning budget (10% from net yearly salary)
- 30 working days of holiday
- Mental and emotional health support from Mindletic
- Frequent team-building events
- A personal budget for shopping on Vinted
- A daily allowance for ordering lunch
- Work anywhere in the EU for 90 days out of the year
- Dog-friendly office
- Home office support (IT workstation equipment provided and a personal budget for home workplace furniture)
Company HQ
Naujamiestis, Vilnius, Vilnius County
Leadership
Justas Janauskas
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously worked as Chief ERP Software Architect at Alna Business Solutions, and served as CEO of HumansApp.
Milda Mitkutė
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as PR and Communication Project Manager at Pro Consulto, and served as Vinted's Head of Performance Marketing.
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