Senior Data Scientist

Overview

As a Senior Data Scientist at Carwow, you will lead end-to-end ML and AI projects that fuel a large two-sided car marketplace. You’ll partner with commercial, product, marketing, and operations teams to translate business problems into production-ready models and AI solutions. Your work will span pricing, demand signals, personalised recommendations, and LLM-powered operations support, delivering measurable business impact. This role offers high ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to shape data science standards and AI adoption at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Competitive salary
• Matched pension contributions
• Share options
• Vitality Private Healthcare
• Learning and development budget

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end ML/AI projects from framing to deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Design and deploy GenAI/LLM solutions alongside classical ML with clear value judgments
• Drive commercial impact through models that improve marketing efficiency, pricing, or recommendations
• Prototype and run rapid experiments with clear success metrics to decide on scale
• Collaborate with Commercial, Marketing, Product, Finance, Engineering, and Operations to understand problems and translate findings
• Contribute to shared best practices, documentation, and ways of working to raise DS standards and promote AI adoption

Key requirements

• Commercial mindset and ability to tie models to revenue, efficiency, or customer outcomes
• Strong stakeholder partnership with cross-functional teams
• Sound judgement on tooling choices and when to apply GenAI vs classical ML
• Bonus: marketplace or two-sided platform experience
• Proven ML experience in Python in production, owning models post-deployment

• Cross-functional communication
• Strategic problem framing
• Rigorous experimentation and metric-focused thinking
• Python
• SQL
• MLOps and end-to-end model lifecycle

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