Machine Learning Data Scientist - Styling

About the Team

At Stitch Fix, our data science team combines machine learning with expert human judgment to generate innovative recommendations and insights that transform how our clients discover what they love. We believe in a curiosity-driven culture where members have the autonomy to deliver impact through end-to-end, full-stack product development and ownership. The diversity of the problems that we work on and the data-rich environment of our business make it possible, even essential, to bring the tools of multiple disciplines to bear on our hardest problems. 

The Styling Algos team uses personalization algorithms to achieve two main goals:
1. Enhance the client experience by making it feel uniquely tailored to each individual.
2. Develop systems that empower our talented stylists to provide exceptional service to our clients.

These experiences are crafted by combining elements of style, diversity, and our capacity to understand and cater to client requests and preferences.

About the Role

In this position, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of personalized apparel shopping. Your responsibilities will involve skillfully blending algorithms with the expertise of our exceptional stylists. This synergy between algorithms and stylists ensures that we consistently deliver one-of-a-kind content to our clients, tailored to their specific preferences and where they currently stand in their style evolution. Stitch Fix's "fix" offering provides a highly personalized collection of items tailored to each client's unique aesthetic, size, fit, and price preferences.

One of our primary objectives is to consistently enhance the quality of these assortments across aspects such as seasonality, diversity, and freshness. The Styling Algos team is dedicated to not only providing personalized recommendations to our clients but also optimizing our stylists' effectiveness in their roles. This position plays a pivotal role in directly influencing our business's overall success, offering a distinctive opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Strategy, Product, Merchandising, Marketing, and Engineering stakeholders.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of business-critical real-time systems. Conduct system audits, identify performance bottlenecks, improve observability and implement improvements.
• Collaborate with data scientists in developing and deploying new ML features. Assist in refining existing models for better accuracy and efficiency.
• Help ensure code quality and maintainability of our systems by engaging in code and system reviews and mentoring data scientists. Develop tools and best practices for model development and feature integration into production systems. Stay up to date with ML and architecture industry trends.
• Collaborate with our highly supportive data platform team, particularly for real-time applications.
• Work with our product, product design, and engineering teams to create roadmaps for developing new client products, user features, data flywheels, and infrastructure

We’re excited about you because…

• You have a solid understanding of recommender systems
• You have led end-to-end machine learning and/or research projects
• You have a strong proficiency in Python for tasks related to data science and analytics.
• You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or a related field.
• You have solid cross-functional, communication skills that help simplify and move complex problems forward with business partners 
• You are a compassionate team player, and you see your growth and success entangled with the growth and success of your peers
• You are innovative and inspired to take on new challenges, and you do not shy away from potential failure
• You think about ethics in AI and the impact of machine learning on society and want to bring that to bear in our work here 

Why you'll love working at Stitch Fix...

• We are a group of bright, kind people who are motivated by challenge. We value integrity, innovation and trust. You’ll bring these characteristics to life in everything you do at Stitch Fix.
• We cultivate a community of diverse perspectives— all voices are heard and valued.
• We are an innovative company and leverage our strengths in fashion and tech to disrupt the future of retail. 
• We win as a team, commit to our work, and celebrate grit together because we value strong relationships.
• We boldly create the future while keeping equity and sustainability at the center of all that we do. 
• We are the owners of our work and are energized by solving problems through a growth mindset lens. We think broadly and creatively through every situation to create meaningful impact.
• We offer comprehensive compensation packages and inclusive health and wellness benefits.

About Stitch Fix

We're changing the industry and bringing personal styling to every body. We believe in a service and a workplace where you can show up as your best, most authentic self. The Stitch Fix experience is not merely curated—it’s truly personalized to each client we style. We are changing the way people find what they love. We’re disrupting the future of retail with the precision of data science by combining it with human instinct to find pieces that fit our client’s unique style. This novel juxtaposition attracts a highly diverse group of talented people who are both thinkers and doers. This results in a simple, yet powerful offering to our customers and a successful, growing business serving millions of men, women and kids throughout the US and UK. We believe we are only scratching the surface and are looking for incredible people like you to help us boldly create our future.