Staff Data Scientist (m/f/d)

Explore a new world of possibilities:

At HomeToGo, we’re on a mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible for everyone. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. We are actively hiring candidates from all around the world, including sponsoring visas for Germany. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!

Your future contribution:

Which destinations or categories of rental homes should we recommend to customers when they browse our website or receive our newsletter? How can we provide the most relevant list of results in our vacation rental search? How can we account for market trends, inventory quality and customer behavior to dynamically improve our products?

HomeToGo’s Data Science team is responsible for supercharging our products, particularly in areas such as search, recommendations, marketing, overall integration of NLP/LLMs functionality like Entity and Topic extraction, as well as supporting planning with forecasting. Leveraging our extensive demand, product, and supply data, we aim to deliver engagement and revenue-driving intelligence using sophisticated ML models. We are seeking to bolster our Data Science team to elevate these efforts to the next level and expand into new use cases.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will collaborate with our talented team of Data Scientists and partner with colleagues in various departments, including Search, Marketing, Analytics, and Engineering, to enhance and expand our AI-powered marketplace. This presents an exciting opportunity to join a team that significantly impacts HomeToGo's overall performance. You will tackle challenging problems and drive measurable business impact through our online A/B testing platform.

How you’ll add value:

• Help in shaping our long-term Data Science strategy; from use cases to capabilities like Semantic Search or Search/e-mail personalisation, topic and entity extraction for our sourcing/product/customer service teams or building core abilities around imagery handling or forecasting 
• Design quantitative models and improve existing models by designing new features (offline and online) to drive customer engagement, booking conversions and other key metrics, e.g. revenue per user, booking in last X days for our ranking
• Ensure proper selection of model offline quality metrics and maintain an adequate level of model explainability to support operation teams
• Ensure efficient and cohesive workflows in our Data Science efforts to maximize business impact, while acting as a valuable sparring partner and facilitator for other Data Scientists
• Serve as a consultative and creative partner for business and product stakeholders – understanding their needs and translating them into modeling problems

You’ll be successful in this role if you:

• Have a proven track record as a Data Scientist in e-commerce or other modern digital services; Having experience in areas of Ranking, Recommender Systems or similar is a plus
• Hold an MSc or PhD, with a strong academic record, ideally in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Economics, or another quantitative field
• Have extensive hands-on experience in product analytics and A/B testing,, advanced modeling and ML, with a high comfort level using Python and SQL
• Be able to blend into a technical environment using git, Docker, CI/CD and co. 
• Are familiar with modern large-scale data warehousing solutions (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery) and/or data processing engines (e.g. Spark, Presto) – ideally in the context of distributed cloud computing (e.g. AWS, GCP). 
• Have experience driving Data Science projects end to end, from the ideation to the proof-of-concept to the productionalization
• Have the ability to thrive in a cross-functional setting: strong communication skills, ability to synthesize takeaways for non-technical partners, and a desire to influence business decisions
• Bring intellectual curiosity, a desire for continuous learning, outcome orientation and a collaborative team-player attitude

Why HomeToGo?

Your journey with HomeToGo is a two way street - we’ve got you covered! We offer a diverse variety of benefits to enable your career development and make HomeToGo a great place to work, including:

• The essentials: Competitive compensation package, visa sponsorship & relocation assistance*, full IT support & equipment, corporate benefits, modern offices, 27 paid vacation days a year (+ one additional day per year of employment until 32)
• Career growth: 360° feedback, open feedback culture, buddy and mentorship programs from an international team of passionate industry experts 
• Personal development: German & Lithuanian language courses, internal and external workshops & trainings, company & team events, Gympass, clubs & sports (e.g. volleyball, running, yoga classes), psychological support
• Startup spirit: Driven by our Leadership Principles: We are fast, nimble, and results-driven - embodying a startup mentality even as a global, public company. We encourage ownership and enable each other to succeed
• Flexible work approach: Office-led and remote friendly approach; employees are offered remote work flexibility for up to 50% of the year, including work from abroad benefits. Plus, access to a  Travel Industry Card 
• Climate action: Committed to being a pioneer in green travel: We’ve achieved an industry-leading “Low Risk” ESG Rating (16), awarded by Morningstar Sustainalytics, and are a proud member of Leaders for Climate Action
• And so much more…

*Certain conditions apply