Lead Data Scientist

We're partnering with one of the UK's largest digital consumer platforms to hire a Lead Data Scientist into a newly formed Data Science capability.

This is a genuine greenfield opportunity to help shape how machine learning influences customer engagement, subscriptions, retention and revenue growth across a business processing hundreds of thousands of events per second and managing petabytes of behavioural data.

You’ll be joining at a pivotal stage as the organisation continues its transformation towards a subscription‑led model, with Data Science becoming a critical part of future growth.

• Subscription propensity modelling
• Churn prediction and retention analytics
• Customer segmentation and personalisation
• Dynamic pricing and offer optimisation
• Uplift modelling and causal inference
• Experimentation frameworks and A/B testing
• Model monitoring and performance optimisation

You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Editorial and Commercial teams to translate customer behaviour into actionable insight and measurable business outcomes.

• 5+ years in Data Science or Machine Learning
• Strong Python and SQL
• Experience deploying production ML models
• Strong grounding in statistics, probability and machine learning theory
• Experience working with large‑scale customer data sets
• Background in subscription, consumer, media, gaming, e‑commerce, fintech or similar environments

Experience with recommendation systems, propensity modelling, retention, personalisation or monetisation challenges would be particularly valuable.

• Founding hire into a growing Data Science capability
• Huge influence over future direction and tooling
• Opportunity to help build a future team
• One of the UK's largest consumer data sets
• Highly visible role with direct business impact
• Modern data environment including Click House, Iceberg and Python‑based ML tooling

Location: London (Hybrid)

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