Senior Data Scientist – Search & Recommendations

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Senior Data Scientist analyzing e-commerce search, ranking, and recommendation performance at Accesa. Building metrics and evaluating experiments to improve AI-powered product discovery.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze large-scale e-commerce search data to identify trends and improvement opportunities across search, ranking, recommendations, and personalization
  • Investigate search behavior, including zero results, query reformulation, abandonment, position bias, CTR, and relevance versus business trade-offs
  • Define and interpret search KPIs
  • Rigorously evaluate online experiments across ranking, personalization, recommendations, and hybrid or vector search
  • Build end-to-end metrics layers using event-level data and server-side search logs
  • Transform raw tracking data into clear datasets and visualizations
  • Lead analytical initiatives
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, MLOps, and ML/Search Engineering teams to improve product and business outcomes

Requirements:

  • Strong hands-on skills in SQL and Python, particularly Pandas
  • Solid statistical knowledge
  • Ability to create clear data visualizations
  • Familiarity with the e-commerce search funnel
  • Hands-on experience with query and ranking analysis, including zero results, reformulation, abandonment, position bias, CTR by position, and relevance versus business trade-offs
  • Experience defining, tracking, and interpreting CTR, PDP view rate, add-to-cart, conversion, revenue, and zero-results rate
  • Experience designing and statistically evaluating ML/search experiments across ranking, personalization, and recommendations
  • Proficiency with event-level data and server-side search logs
  • Experience building multidimensional metrics layers and end-to-end analytical solutions at large e-commerce scale
  • Ability to collaborate with Product Owners, Data Scientists, MLOps, and ML/Search Engineers
  • Ability to lead senior-level initiatives and deliver measurable product and business impact
  • Proactive and curious approach to complex problems
  • Genuine enthusiasm for search, recommendations, ranking, personalization, and AI-powered product discovery
  • Regular use of AI tools to improve productivity, automate or reduce repetitive work, support decision-making, and deliver higher-quality outcomes
  • Ability to use AI tools responsibly by structuring effective prompts, critically validating outputs, understanding limitations, and taking ownership of the final result
  • Nice to have: Experience with GCP, distributed data systems, and analytical databases
  • Nice to have: Familiarity with NDCG, Recall@K, MRR, and MAP
  • Nice to have: Knowledge of information retrieval, recommender systems, or ranking models

Benefits:

  • Medical benefits
  • Gym support
  • Personalised fitness options
  • Team events
  • Healthy Habits Club
  • Flexible work-life dynamic
  • Mental wellbeing support
  • Social wellbeing initiatives
  • Hybrid-environment community and connection activities