About The Job
As a Data Scientist on the analysis track at talabat, your mission will be to enhance the quality of decision-making across products and business units through accurate, relevant, and actionable data. You will take ownership of a specific domain and collaborate closely with product and business managers as part of a skilled team of data scientists and engineers. Your responsibilities will encompass the entire data value chain, which includes logging, data modeling, analysis, reporting, and experimentation.
What’s On Your Plate?
- Transform ambiguous business challenges into opportunities using objective data criteria.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of product experiences and business processes related to your focus area.
- Become familiar with source data and its generating systems through documentation and interactions with engineering teams.
- Contribute significantly to the design and maintenance of data models that measure performance and identify performance drivers for your area.
- Collaborate with product and business teams to identify critical questions that can be addressed effectively with data.
- Deliver clear, actionable insights and recommendations to foster data-driven decision-making via in-depth analysis and automated reports.
- Design, plan, and analyze experiments (including A/B and multivariate tests).
- Support product and business managers in setting KPIs and goals.
- Mentor other data scientists in their professional development.
- Contribute to refining workflows, tools, and internal training programs.
What You Need to Be Successful
Technical Experience:
- Excellent SQL proficiency.
- Competence in reproducible data analysis using Python or R.
- Familiarity with data modeling and dimensional design.
- Strong understanding of the entire data analysis lifecycle: problem formulation, data auditing, analysis, interpretation, recommendations, and presentation.
- Knowledge of various types of analysis, including descriptive, exploratory, inferential, causal, and predictive.
- Deep understanding of experiment design and statistical techniques.
- Familiarity with product data (impressions, events) and product health metrics (conversion, engagement, retention).
- Experience with BigQuery and the Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
- Data engineering and pipeline development experience (e.g., via Airflow) is advantageous.
- Experience with classical machine learning frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM) is a plus.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, technology, or a related field (a postgraduate degree is a plus but not required).
- 5+ years of experience in data science and machine learning.
- Experience in an online consumer product setting is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, growth-oriented mindset.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- A “keep it simple” mentality to drive results.
About Us
talabat is the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app in the MENA region, with a commitment to delivering convenience and reliability to our customers. Founded in Kuwait in 2004 and part of the Delivery Hero Group since 2015, we leverage innovative technology to meet the diverse needs of our communities across eight countries. With over 4,500 employees and extensive partnerships with numerous brands, talabat is dedicated to creating a positive impact through our platform and services.
