Data Scientist, Depop
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1 day a week in office (Cheapside, London)
The community-driven fashion marketplace
Job no longer available
The community-driven fashion marketplace
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1 day a week in office (Cheapside, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. Our team is dedicated to enhancing and developing the Depop experience to serve the needs of our global community.
Role
Who you are
- A degree in a quantitative subject such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or related disciplines or a track-record of relevant industry experience
- Proficient in Python with the ability to write production-grade code
- Solid understanding of machine learning and data science concepts, familiar working with common frameworks such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
- Proven ability to design machine learning solutions to solve business problems using best practices (e.g. data cleaning, model development)
- Collaborative and humble team player with an ability to work with cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Passion for learning new skills and staying up-to-date with ML algorithms
Desirable
- Experience with Databricks and PySpark
- Experience working with AWS or another cloud platform (GCP/Azure)
- Experience working within recommendations, personalisation or search
- Experience with experiment design and conducting A/B tests
What the job involves
- Depop is looking for a talented Data Scientist to join our Recommendations team in the UK
- As part of the Recommendations team you will work alongside a Product Manager, Backend Engineers and other Data Scientists playing a key role in building state-of-the-art recommendation systems
- Research, design and deliver machine learning solutions to tackle problems within the personalisation and recommendations space
- Optimise and maintain existing solutions to improve performance metrics and increase business impact
- Understand requirements from relevant stakeholders across the business, translating business problems into machine learning solutions
- Set up and conduct large scale experiments to test hypotheses and drive product development
- Keep up to date with state of the art research with the opportunity to apply this within the product
- Participate in team ceremonies (follow the agile cadence, technical whiteboarding sessions, product roadmapping, etc)
- Report and present technical findings to technical and non-technical audiences
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The re-sale market across everyday clothing, collectables and luxury is growing. One driving force of this is that people care more about sustainability and are therefore buying second-hand goods. This has resulted in a fast growing market with plenty of opportunity.
The experience on Depop is what you'd expect from platforms such as Instagram. The focus on social, creators and influencers has created a very high level of engagement.
Depop was quick to realise the value in power users and has focused efforts there (where people are generating up to $100,000 in annual income for themselves by selling items). The popularity of social platforms making individuals into entrepreneurs will likely attract interest from Instagram and Pinterest. This may pose a challenge for Depop as these competitors will be in a strong position to leverage their networks.
The company has been acquired by Etsy and is now focusing on strategic partnerships in several industries to keep market share flowing in.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2019
$62m
SERIES C
Jan 2018
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.8m
Company benefits
- MyMode is our hybrid-working model, designed to empower our employees to choose a working mode that works for them. MyMode is composed of 3 working modes: Flex, Office Based and Remote
- Flex: we'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week
- Office: Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk
- Remote: depending on your role you can request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year
- Our parental leave policies aim to support and enable parents to play equal roles in nurturing their families, in a way that is flexible and truly gender-neutral
- Our full-time regular employees are eligible for 18 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of their child. We also offer IVF leave, shared parental leave and paid emergency parent/carer leave
- Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
- Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you with the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
- Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7
- Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting
- 25 days annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
- 1 company-wide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress
- We offer budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions and more. We also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us
- We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working
- Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
- Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Simon Beckerman
(Founder)Founded a magazine in Italy before Depop. No longer holds an operational role
Kruti Patel Goyal
(CEO, non founder)Previously CPO at Etsy, Kruti joined Depop as new CEO in September of 2022.
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