Lead Data Scientist

Marley Spoon

Lead Data Scientist developing and deploying data science solutions at Marley Spoon. Collaborate across teams to create and innovate culinary product features with data-driven insights.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇵🇹 PortugalSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, deploy, and scale data science solutions across the organization.
Support best practices across the team.
Work closely with Digital and Marketing teams, converting ideas into experiments and models into shipped product features.
Lead technical discussions and drive engineering best practices across the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years in Data Science / ML, including 3+ years in a lead role delivering production ML.
Strong depth in at least one: recommender systems, experimentation platforms, growth analytics, or retention/churn modeling.
Proficiency in Python , SQL , and common ML tooling (scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, or similar).
Evidence you’ve tied models to outcomes (retention lift, conversion uplift, marketing ROI, operational efficiency, etc.).
Familiarity with modern data stacks (cloud warehouse like Snowflake or similar, BI tools like Looker, ML orchestration/deployment tooling).
Confidence communicating trade-offs, uncertainty, and results to both technical and non-technical partners.
A practical, collaborative mindset—optimizing for what works, scales, and gets adopted.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid work policy (remote + office).
22 annual leave days +2 days extra days for every year of tenure (up to 6).
5 training days per year.
Private health insurance provided by Tranquilidade.
Food allowance of 7.62€/worked day under by Coverflex.
24/7 confidential employee assistance program.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data ScienceMachine LearningPythonSQLscikit-learnXGBoostPyTorchrecommender systemsexperimentation platformsgrowth analytics

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingtechnical discussion facilitationbest practices advocacymindset optimization