About the Role
As the leading delivery company in the region, talabat has a significant responsibility and opportunity to impact millions of customers, restaurant partners, and riders. This role involves advancing the platform to become more intelligent in understanding and serving users. As a data scientist supporting the QC Hub, your mission is to improve decision quality across product and business via relevant, reliable, and actionable data. You will own a specific domain across product and business, collaborating with product and business managers within a talented team of data scientists and data engineers. This role encompasses the entire data value chain, including logging, data modeling, analysis, reporting, and experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Leverage ambiguous business problems to drive objective criteria using data.
- Develop a deep understanding of product experiences and business processes in your focus area.
- Become familiar with source data and generating systems through documentation, engineering team interaction, and systematic data profiling.
- Contribute heavily to the design and maintenance of data models to measure and comprehend performance drivers.
- Work closely with product and business teams to identify important data-answerable questions.
- Deliver well-formed, relevant, reliable, and actionable insights and recommendations through deep analysis and automated reports.
- Design, plan, and analyze experiments (A/B and multivariate tests).
- Support product and business managers with KPI design and goal setting.
Requirements
- Strong command over the entire data analysis lifecycle: problem formulation, data auditing, rigorous analysis, interpretation, recommendations, and presentation.
- Deep understanding of various experiment design and analysis workflows and corresponding statistical techniques.
- Familiarity with product data (impressions, events) and product health measurement (conversion, engagement, retention).
- Experience doing data science in an online consumer product setting is a plus.
Skills
- Excellent SQL.
- Competence with reproducible data analysis using Python or R.
- Familiarity with data modeling and dimensional design.
- Familiarity with different types of analysis: descriptive, exploratory, inferential, causal, and predictive analysis.
- Familiarity with BigQuery and the Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
- Data engineering and data pipeline development experience (e.g., via Airflow) is a plus.
- Experience with classical ML frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM) is a plus.
Experience Level
- 3+ years of overall experience working in data science and machine learning.
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, technology, or similar fields.
- A postgraduate degree is a plus but not required.
About the Company
- talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, launched in Kuwait in 2004.
- Offers convenience and reliability to customers in eight countries across the region.
- Harnesses innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for customers, optimize operations for restaurants and local shops, and provide riders with reliable earning opportunities.
- Building a high-performance culture through an engaged workforce and growing talent density.
- 6,000+ talabaty are on a mission to spread positive vibes.
- Proud to be a multi great place to work award winner.
