Senior Data Science Leader, Dark Stores Intelligence

Talabat Holding; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

talabat is seeking a Senior Manager Data Science for the Global QC Hub to lead a talented ML team. You will own the end-to-end ML workflow, from opportunity identification to production deployment, focusing on price optimization and operational efficiency.

You will mentor engineers and data scientists, collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, product, and business partners across Talabat and Delivery Hero, and drive high-impact ML initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in ML/ DL with production systems.
• Experience with deployments at scale.
• Experience in recommender/personalization/logistics.
• Strong statistical analysis and experiment design.
• Causal inference and uplift modelling experience.
• Hands-on in A/B/multivariate experiments.
• Experience with switchback and geo testing.
• Knowledge of data platforms and data ecosystem.
• Ability to lead ML engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and guide ML workflow from problem formulation to production deployment.
• Lead experimentation and causal inference practices (A/B, multivariate, geo tests).
• Collaborate with data engineers, product and business partners across Talabat and Delivery Hero.
• Define team roadmap, priorities, and success criteria.
• Mentor ML engineers and data scientists; build scalable ML platform.

Skills

ML & DL

ML frameworks

Data structures

Production ML

Recommendation

Experiment design

Causal inference

A/B testing

MMM & matching

Data pipelines

Education

BS in CS/Engineering/Tech

MS/PhD a plus

Tools

ML frameworks

Data pipelines

Job description

talabat is seeking a Senior Manager Data Science for the Global QC Hub to lead a talented ML team. You will own the end-to-end ML workflow, from opportunity identification to production deployment, focusing on price optimization and operational efficiency.

You will mentor engineers and data scientists, collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, product, and business partners across Talabat and Delivery Hero, and drive high-impact ML initiatives.