Data Scientist

We are a VC-funded company based in Marseille and focusing on the travel market

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will be responsible for refining, defining and developing the specifications of our travel artificial intelligence engine.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to excite and delight our customers while providing very robust profile and account management, and integration with our partners

In addition to working closely with world class UX designers and a vibrant marketing team, this is a senior level position and the successful candidate will be responsible for helping lead and build a team within an agile and results oriented Engineering department.

The successful candidate will have a strong technical background but still enjoys using soft-skills and plays well with others. You can learn a lot on how to launch and grow a startup.

Qualifications

Ph.D. or Master’s Degree in operations research, applied statistics, data mining, machine learning, physics or a related quantitative discipline. You have a deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms.
With 5 of experience delivering world-class data science outcomes, you solve complex analytical problems using quantitative approaches with your unique blend of analytical, mathematical and technical skills.
You’re passionate about asking and answering questions in large datasets, and you are able to communicate that passion to product managers and engineers. You have a keen desire to solve business problems, and live to find patterns and insights within structured and unstructured data. You propose analytics strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of everyone around you.
You are expert in analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional datasets with a variety of tools. You are accomplished in the use of statistical analysis environments. You have experience with BI tools. You’re as comfortable with relational databases as you are with Hadoop-based data mining frameworks. You are familiar with SQL, Python, Java and C/C++.
You desire a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative engineering environment. You love learning, data, scale and agility. You excel at making complex concepts simple and easy to understand by those around you. You’re driven to show the world the power of applied analytics.