Senior Data Scientist, Revenue (FTC)

Key Skills

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data science techniques, Employee life cycle, Looker, Machine learning techniques, MLOps tools, Python Programming, SQL, Tableau

Job Description

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.

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Bumble Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead our efforts in developing sophisticated Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) models tailored specifically for our unique ecosystem. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced MLE/DS who enjoys the fast-paced environment of a growing company, has experience in tech analytics and has a passion to contribute to helping the Bumble Inc. mission to foster kind connections.

You would ideally have a background in data science at either a dating, social, gaming or other relevant tech company, with proven experience in driving commercial impact through applying analytics to critical business problems.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to harness the power of data and analytics in unlocking key insights into customer behavior and revenue generation. Your primary focus will be on developing advanced CLV models that account for the intricacies of our two-sided marketplace, enabling us to optimize customer acquisition, retention, and monetization strategies.

You bring experience of working with complex sources of revenue, payments and behavioural data and use that knowledge to partner with stakeholders and senior leaders, taking a holistic approach to find answers. You are comfortable challenging priorities and clearly communicating analytical roadmaps. You’re able to effectively balance demands for both tactical and strategic work and also have experience managing projects across analytics engineering, data science and MLOps.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Lead the development of advanced CLV models tailored to the unique dynamics of our two-sided marketplace, leveraging complex sources of revenue, payments, and behavioral data.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders and senior leaders to identify key business problems, challenge priorities, and provide actionable insights derived from CLV modeling.
• Guide others on techniques and ways of working and help build a culture of critical thinking, commercial acumen and disciplined execution in alignment with senior management.
• Drive data science roadmaps by efficiently producing insights that inform decision-making, supporting an extensive experimentation program, and advocating for continual improvement within the team.
• Take an integrated perspective to analytics, considering all potential drivers to a problem, reviewing existing knowledge, and leveraging expertise from other teams to enhance the effectiveness of CLV modeling efforts.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Preference for a graduate degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Information Sciences, Economics, Finance, or STEM. PhD and Masters welcome.
• Preference for experience working in similar dating/social/gaming tech product industries or else financial services/high-data-volume industries.
• Proven experience in building and deploying ML and statistical models for demand forecasting, segmentation, and CLV estimation.
• 3+ years of experience with python/SQL, machine learning/data science tooling such as Kubeflow/Streamlit and visualisation tooling such as Looker/Tableau.
• You have strong understanding of machine learning applications development life cycle processes and tools: CI/CD, version control (git), testing frameworks, MLOps, agile methodologies, monitoring and alertingYou have experience working with complex data infrastructures and have experience partnering and guiding the work of data engineering to help facilitate ingestion, warehousing, and optimisation of databases.
• Strong experience with data engineering and data modelling requirements needed to automate reporting and measurement.

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, Fruitz and Official. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through kind connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date), friendship (Bumble BFF) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors. Official is an app for couples that promotes open and honest communication between partners and was founded in 2020.