Senior Product Data Scientist

Deliveroo's analytics group guides choices across product, commercial and operations teams using experiments and causal inference. This London vacancy is one of several senior data scientist openings in the group and is listed under product data science. Rather than tying a hire to one fixed team, the business reviews each candidate's skills and aspirations during interviews and then assigns the best-fitting scope.

Data scientists come from many training backgrounds, including formal data science degrees and self-taught routes. The community stays active through guest talks, study circles, mentoring schemes and rigorous peer review of technical work. Senior practitioners can advance along an expert track or a management track. The listing describes hybrid working with three office days each week.

The questions this group tackles include where to launch the next city, how to nudge riders toward good conduct, what exclusive restaurant contracts actually deliver, how pricing should differ by distance and region, which restaurant mix serves an area best, and how changes to the consumer app shape the experience for grocery shoppers. Many of these require weighing expansion against margin and recommending a clear course of action.

Candidates should bring substantial data science experience and a record of designing and leading experiments of varying difficulty. They need to unpack findings so leaders can act, and to explain results to audiences ranging from engineers to executives through speech, writing and code. Skill with ambiguous problems and in turning stakeholder needs into analytical questions matters. Working knowledge of R or Python, plus SQL, is required, while familiarity with Cursor and other AI tools is an advantage.