Senior Full-Stack Data Scientists, Stitchfix
Client Experience Algorithms - Styling and Growth
$123-205k
+ Equity and annual bonus
Online personal styling
Open for applications
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$123-205k
+ Equity and annual bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change the way people find clothes they love by combining technology with the personal touch of seasoned style experts.
Role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of real-world experience in leveraging Data Science to develop customer-oriented solutions with a recent focus on Recommendation Systems and Search
- You understand the nuances of A/B testing and can balance algorithmic metrics with business metrics
- You are fluent in SQL and have experience handling large-scale datasets
- You are proficient in building and deploying apps using the Python data ecosystem
- You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field
- You have strong communication skills with business partners
- You are a team player who sees your growth and success intertwined with the growth and success of your peers
- You are inspired to take on new challenges and do not shy away from failure
What the job involves
- The Client Experience Algorithms team builds the tools that power personal style, combining best-in-class models with expert human judgment
- We foster a culture of ownership where Data Scientists manage the full lifecycle of their work, from research to model deployment
- You’ll use multidisciplinary tools to solve complex problems in a data-rich environment, directly influencing how millions of clients discover what they love
- The Styling Algorithms team sits directly at the interface between our technology and models, and our team of over 1500 stylists
- We build the recommendations systems and AI assists which help our front-line employees do the right tasks, surface the right merchandise, and communicate effectively with our customers
- Our systems make use of frontier AI models, as well as our own industry-leading machine learning models, to serve an experienced and highly-engaged stylist community; which in turn serves over two million active clients
- This role is primarily focused on the recommendation and search engines that power our styling interface
- You will be a key contributor to the system that surfaces inventory to our stylists
- While you will collaborate closely with the Foundational Models team (who build our base embeddings), you will own the ranking logic, business logic layers, and the deployment of these models into production
- You will also prototype and deploy agentic AI workflows to assist stylists in real-time
- This role has a direct impact on the business’s bottom line, and throughout the company's history has been a key source of our innovation and competitive differentiation
- You will be a primary technical owner of our human-in-the-loop augmented recommendations
- You will work in a team that embraces both LLMs and traditional ML
- You will manage experiments to test new features, including communication of results to stakeholders and leadership
- You will solve problems related to recommendation ranking, hyperparameter optimization, and assortment generation
- You can leverage a decade's worth of rich and unique data about our clients, our merchandise, and their interactions
- You will work with our product, product design, and engineering teams to create roadmaps for developing new client products, user features, and infrastructure
Our take
Shopping online for clothes is not always a fun experience. Finding clothes you like is only half the battle. Sizing guides and return policies seem to have been designed to be challenging to understand, and can also vary wildly from company to company.
Stitchfix sets out to change this by making online clothes shopping personalized and hassle-free. Customers take a survey on their personal tastes, and pay a one-off fee for a stylist, to receive a box of 5 personalized items. Then, they simply pay for any items they keep, or return what they don't want free of charge.
Stitchfix's unique blend of technology and human touch allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale. Unfortunately, this once exciting brand has been hit hard by economic trends, cutting back staff and shutting down UK operations entirely. Only time will tell if it can bounce back and find success again in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2014
$30m
SERIES C
Oct 2013
$12m
SERIES B
Total funding: $47.6m
Company benefits
- Leadership, managing people program, career journey & other training opportunities
- Company equity for eligible roles
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited vacation for qualified roles
- Competitive parental leave
- Enjoy 40% off of Fixes plus access to quarterly sample sales
- Collaborative workspaces - Open floor plan with standing desks & living room seating throughout
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Katrina Lake
(Founder & Executive Chair)BA in Economics from Stanford. MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously 2 years as an Associate at The Parthenon Group and 2 years as an Associate at Leader Ventures.
Matt Baer
(CEO)Board Member at La-Z-Boy Incorporated. Former Chief Customer and Digital Officer at Macy's, VP at Walmart eCommerce. Founded and was COO at Bezar.
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