Senior Data Science Manager - Pricing & Ops Intelligence

Delivery Hero; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

talabat, part of Delivery Hero, is seeking a Senior Manager Data Science to lead the Global QC Hub ML team and drive price optimization, experimentation, and operational efficiency across product and business lines.

You will own the complete ML workflow, collaborate with engineers and product managers, and mentor a team of ML engineers and data scientists to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.

Qualifications

• Expert in both classical machine learning and deep learning.
• Strong experience with classical ML frameworks.
• Strong experience with deep learning frameworks.
• Familiarity with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience deploying and managing production ML systems at scale.
• Experience in recommendation, personalization, search, or logistics problems.
• Strong background in experiment design and statistical analysis, incl. A/B and multivariate tests.
• Strong causal thinking and uplift modelling.
• Experience with advanced experimentation and causal methods (switchback, geo testing, MMM, PSM).
• Experience with data pipelines, data modeling, and data reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the ML team to improve price optimization and operational efficiency.
• Own the complete ML workflow from problem formulation to production deployment.
• Set the team's roadmap, priorities, and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Oversee experimentation and causal inference practices to measure impact.
• Own data analytics, engineering, modeling, and reporting functions.
• Develop and maintain the ML platform for online and batch inference.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business managers throughout ML lifecycle.
• Mentor ML engineers and data scientists.

Skills

ML leadership

Experiment design

Causal inference

A/B testing

Strategic roadmap

Cross-functional collaboration

Team mentoring

Recruitment

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering / CS / technology

Postgraduate degree a plus

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

MLflow

Spark

SQL

Job description

talabat, part of Delivery Hero, is seeking a Senior Manager Data Science to lead the Global QC Hub ML team and drive price optimization, experimentation, and operational efficiency across product and business lines.

You will own the complete ML workflow, collaborate with engineers and product managers, and mentor a team of ML engineers and data scientists to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.