Director of Data Science, Flink
Office located in Brunnenstraße, Berlin
Grocery delivery service
Job no longer available
Grocery delivery service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Brunnenstraße, Berlin
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver organic fresh fruit, vegetables, and other groceries directly to the homes of customers, within 10 minutes, at supermarket prices.
Role
Who you are
- You possess Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Machine learning or any other related field
- 5+ years of professional experience managing multiple teams through the implementation of new data science models, tools, and techniques as a Director, or a Head of
- Are hands-on in analysing and manipulating large, complex, high-dimensional data from numerous sources and communicating the results to a wider org, leading to business-wide improvement of data management, informed decision-making, and ultimate improvement in performance
- You are pragmatic and understand what is needed to get things done collaboratively across a large organisation
- Have worked with MLOps to define the architecture and integrations between Product & Engineering and Data Science models
- You can demonstrate how you achieved this success: processes, goals, KPI’s, hiring, firing, management skills, alignment, budgeting etc
- A passionate leader who can lead and inspire others
- Excellent communication in English
What the job involves
- In your role as a Director of Data Science (m/f/d), you will lead the department’s engagement with business stakeholders and executives and partner with these stakeholders and executives in enhancing the existing data management methodologies and developing new approaches and methodologies
- Additionally, you will manage the data science team, ensuring the proper execution of functions within the department
- Ideally you would also be able to do some hands on work and aligning on technical implementation and strategies to be used by other Data Scientists
- Responsible for developing team culture, training and competencies development, mentoring and motivating the team members; setting the data science vision and capabilities that contribute to the business's overall targets and objectives
- Leverage data enabling him to uncover insights, trends, and patterns that are useful in making informed decisions
- Responsible for evaluating technologies used within the business and communicating the findings to the key stakeholders
- Partner with senior executives and key stakeholders across the business on developing the data science roadmap that is in line with the overall business strategy and is contributing to business performance
- Take initiative and stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices and incorporate them in the business
- Discover, implement and advocate usage of various tools and processes that make Data Science a real multiplier for the business, but also our Tech teams
- Proactively do R&D on most critical aspects of our business to identify opportunities and gaps in both operational and product where Data Scientist can work on improving operational efficiencies and customer facing products
Our take
Online grocery delivery services in Europe range from early supermarket-specific services to the more recent success of mobile food-ordering applications. However despite thier proliferation grocery delivery services still face long waiting lists and logistic bottlenecks, with faster solutions coming with a compromise on the range and quality of products.
Flink provides an online website and mobile application for the delivery of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other organic-quality groceries to European homes. The company provides its services to 100 different European cities across Germany, the Netherlands and France, and claims that its grocery deliveries are provided at supermarket prices within 10 minutes of ordering.
Flink is one of the few remaining independent grocery delivery startups in Europe, with most of the others either having been acquired or shut down. German rival Gorillas for instance ate through its initial investments and was taken over in 2022. Flink has been playing a more conservative strategy, aiming for more steady growth, but had to receive a fresh investment round of 100 million euros in 2024 to help it outlast competitors. Rumors of a potential merger with competitor companies indicate the lengths that Flink is going to maintain its dominance in a market that, at present, is suffering from lower demand and higher costs.
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back within 2 weeks
346% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2024
$111m
LATE VC
May 2023
$166.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- A good salary and fringe benefits
- A start-up environment with growth opportunities
- An environment where you have a lot of impact, and where your ideas immediately become reality
- A young and dynamic team
- A flexible employer
- 20% discount on your own Flink groceries
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
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Founders
Oliver Merkel
(MD)Partner at Bain & Company. Co-founded Flink in December 2020.
Julian Dames
(MD)Consultant at Bain & Company before founding foodora, where they served as MD and Global CMO. Also served as CMO at Rappi.
Christoph Cordes
(MD)Began career at Adidas before becoming Manager Director at fashion4home GmbH.
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