Senior Data Scientist

The position is based in Paris, Milan, Turin or Barcelona.

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! 💚

At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table, and we are on a mission to connect the world’s favorite restaurants and the broadest community of loyal diners. 

Finding the best dining experience for our Diners community or boosting restaurant performance for our Restaurateurs Partners has never been easier thanks to our signature products: 

📱TheFork App: our free restaurant discovery & booking app that helps you find your next table with ease.

💻TheFork Manager: our innovative software tool that digitizes restaurant operations, empowering our Restaurateurs to manage bookings efficiently and boost their revenue.

💳TheFork PAY and TheFork Gift Card: quick and easy ways to pay directly from TheFork app

At TheFork, we also believe that people truly make the difference. None of this would be possible without our vibrant Forkies community. Our strong core values—Better Together, Ownership, Respect, and Growth—are the guiding principles of everything we do, shaping our behaviors: “Come as you are,” “Dig in,” and “Make it Memorable”.  

TheFork leads the restaurant booking market in Europe and operates in 11 countries. Our offices boast a fully international team working together in a flexible, multicultural, and constructive environment that provides everyone with space to grow, both professionally and personally.

To learn more about TheFork and our Forkies, explore our official site: https://www.careers.thefork.com

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be part of the Data Enlightenment team (including Data Scientist, Software Engineers and Product Managers) having the mission to “empower TheFork with a strong data foundation and culture, leveraging Data Science and AI, leading to disruptive marketplace innovations”.

You will report to the Data Science Manager and be part of a team of 3 other Data scientists.

What you will do:

As a key player of the Data Science team, you will be onboarded within one product team to help them accelerate their strategy and related projects thanks to Data Science/ML/IA. 

You will have the opportunity to work on TheFork B2C (website/app) and B2B (TheFork Manager) products. You will develop a deep understanding of TheFork value proposition for B2C/B2B customers in order to deliver best in class data products involving ML/IA and integrated within our Product.

Example of projects you could be involved in : 

• Build recommendations algorithms to be integrated on our app / website
• Improve the way restaurants are ranked in our search engine
• Build an agentic system to answer diner questions
• Leverage GenAI to generate restaurant description from reviews
• Generate text descriptions from images to improve our restaurant knowledge

The expected outcomes of your role are:

• High business value for projects deployed in production
• Build with your product team impactful projects around personalization, search, product content, forecasting, GenAI… to be delivered in production
• You’ll work closely with product managers, software engineers, ops and other data stakeholders  in order to deliver well shaped, monitored and actionable projects for B2C/B2B end users.

• Scalable and performant assets

All the assets produced to deliver these projects should be scalable, performant and cost efficient. Anyone in the team could be onboarded quickly and maintenance costs should be low

• Bring the Data Science team to the next level
• Data Enlightenment team upskilled around Deep Learning and at least one of the following application fields : Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Ranking, NLP, Search, Recommendation…
• ML technical stack improved in order to support the team growth and new projects requirements

Your Profile

• You are working in an autonomous, proactive and accountable way: you don’t wait to be told what to do.
• You demonstrate an obsession towards excellence: you systematically consider that good is not enough and constantly consider how to improve and reach the next level of quality, performance and impact
• You play agile and fast: delivering in a fast-paced environment is an easy business for you. You are comfortable to manage several topics in parallel, with different stakeholders involved.
• You bring the outside in: seeking excellence, you have developed habits to benchmark and consider how other companies are doing, what best practices could be source of inspiration and systematically consider how they can apply in your specific business context 
• You act as a team player, communicating efficiently and thinking collectively rather than individually (you can see the value brought by these collective concerns)
• You have a Master’s Degree of an Engineering School with a specialization in mathematics, computer science or Data Science / a PhD in mathematics, physics or computer science

• You have at least 6 years of experience as a Data Scientist (at least 3 years for a PhD)
• You have a strong experience related to integration of Machine Learning in a B2C/B2B product used by millions of customers (like marketplaces) 
• You have excellent analytical skills, involving data analysis and modeling, you are able to modelize complex problems, find the best insights in large datasets and summarize findings in a clear and actionable way
• You have a deep knowledge and industry experience in Deep Learning and at least one of the following topics : Computer Vision, Ranking, NLP, Search, Recommendation
• You have an excellent coding skills in Python and SQL in order to develop POCs then work on their industrialization and integration in the product with Product & Engineering teams
• Strong knowledge about Data Science industrialization (ML Engineering) and  MLops best practices 
• Experience with AWS is a nice to have
• Your English is professional

What we offer you  

😄 An awesome team (not everybody like our jokes, but we try our best) 

🏠 A Permanent contract (that can be useful in life) 

⚖️ Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week) 

💸 Competitive fixed salary, bonus and equity (yes, equity!) 

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)  

🌎 International teams - More than 30 nationalities and 16 offices worldwide 

🏳️‍🌈 Highly inclusive working environment 

🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse physical, leisure activities, family support, travel etc 

🎓Continuous learning and development programs

😌 Free access to the Calm app  

🏥 Health insurance fully covered by the company 

👩‍🦽 Life Insurance and Disability at no cost to the employee  

💗 Welfare allowance school costs, elderly care, babysitting costs, transportation, travel leisure 

🍴 Amazing offices with dining, coffee point on each floor, and leisure area    

🎤 Team building events (we love karaoke. A lot. A lot.)

If you are the right person and you are thrilled to join TheFork don’t miss this chance and apply.. we are waiting for you!

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure  that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under  applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application,  interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly

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