Principal Data Scientist - Search and Recommendation | Principal Data Scientist - Search and Recommendation (all genders)

Job Summary

As a Principal Data Scientist in Search & Recommendation, you will be instrumental in enhancing customer discovery on Zalando by developing advanced machine learning models for relevance, ranking, and personalized recommendations. Your daily tasks will involve tackling complex challenges such as understanding customer intent and real-time user behavior, ensuring algorithms effectively surface relevant items. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to define the scientific roadmap, guide experimentation strategies, and introduce scalable analysis approaches. This role requires a hands-on expert who can foster a culture of research and innovation, leveraging graph theory, sequence modeling, and advanced statistical techniques to analyze customer journeys and provide data-driven insights for business impact. You'll also be responsible for communicating findings to diverse stakeholders.