Senior Data Scientist

Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their Discovery team. The role focuses on improving product discovery through personalization, relevance ranking, and multi-modal search. This is a high-responsibility position involving leading projects from data exploration to experimentation and collaboration with various teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in applied data science, preferably in search, recommendations or user modeling
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with deep experience in data exploration, feature engineering and model evaluation
• Proven experience applying and comparing models for structured prediction, ranking, retrieval or recommendation
• Strong understanding of offline evaluation techniques and trade-offs
• Ability to communicate clearly across disciplines
• Experience planning and delivering projects end-to-end
• Familiarity with AB testing design and analysis
• Experience working with embeddings (e.g. image, text, product), vector search, LLMs or hybrid models

Benefits

• Competitive Family Leave Package
• Clothing Benefit
• Private Healthcare
• Training Allowance
• Pension Scheme
• Eye Tests and Vouchers
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme
• Transport Season Ticket Loan
• Social Events