Lead Data Scientist

Voodoo; Paris; Hybride; EUR 100 000 - 125 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading gaming company is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their BI/Prediction Team in Paris. This hybrid position involves taking ownership of modeling pipelines, mentoring a team, and driving impactful machine learning systems within the mobile gaming industry. Candidates should have extensive experience with Python, SQL, and machine learning systems. Competitive salary and various benefits are offered, including unlimited vacation and wellness activities.

Prestations

Competitive salary

Comprehensive relocation package

Premium healthcare

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib membership

Wellness activities

Unlimited vacation policy

Remote days

Child daycare facilities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building machine learning systems.
• Experience in a tech startup/scaleup is a plus.
• Strong achievements on Kaggle will be valued.

Responsabilités

• Take ownership of our products modeling pipelines.
• Contribute to high modeling performance through innovative ideas.
• Build and deploy scalable ML systems.
• Mentor and guide a team of data scientists.

Connaissances

Machine Learning systems

Python

SQL

MLOps best practices

Cloud experience (AWS preferred)

Excellent communication in English

Excellent communication in French

Outils

Airflow

DBT

Description du poste

About Voodoo

Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.

Team

The Engineering & Data team builds innovative tech products and platforms to support the impressive growth of their gaming and consumer apps which allow Voodoo to stay at the forefront of the mobile gaming industry.

Within the Data team, you’ll join the BI/Prediction Team which is an autonomous squad of around 10 people. The team is composed of top-tier product managers, software & data engineers, data scientists and data analysts.

Role

The objective of this team is to accelerate the growth of the company by serving as the on-demand prediction provider for all Voodoo BUs. This involves addressing critical needs such as predicting campaign LTV for User Acquisition optimization, determining optimal monetization offers for millions of players or constructing confidence intervals for time series data prediction.

We want to onboard a passionate senior data scientist with significant experience in a similar environment to allow us to go one step further. This is an opportunity to have a strategic and critical impact on Voodoo’s success.

This position is hybrid and requires 3 days per week in the office based in Paris.

• Take ownership of our products modeling pipelines

• Contribute to high modeling performance through insightful ideas and initiatives.

• Build and deploy quickly scalable ML systems.

• Engage with colleagues across the company to leverage new ideas and perspectives and demonstrate excellent communication to efficiently cooperate with product managers, teammates and stakeholders.

• Deep dive into data to discover relevant insights.

• Build a rich understanding of the mobile gaming industry, the company strategy, our products and their fit within the company’s daily operations.

• Mentor and guide a team of data scientists, fostering technical excellence and autonomy.

• Establish and enforce best practices in ML engineering, experimentation, and reproducibility across projects.

• Champion a culture of impact-driven research, ensuring models not only perform well technically but also create tangible business value.

• Proactively identify risks in modeling approaches, data quality, scalability, business alignment and design mitigation strategies.

Profile

• Extensive experience building machine learning systems

• Extensive experience with Python, SQL and MLOps best practices

• Cloud experience needed (ideally AWS but could be another cloud provider)

• Airflow and DBT experience is a nice to have

• Excellent Communication in English and French mandatory

• You enjoy working in a team, learning new things, sharing knowledge

• Experience in a tech startup/scaleup is a plus

• Strong achievements on Kaggle will be valued

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive relocation package (including visa support)

• Premium healthcare (SideCare) for you and your family 100% borne by Voodoo

• Swile Lunch voucher

• Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)

• Wellness activities in our Paris office

• Unlimited vacation policy

• Remote days

• Child daycare facilities (Les Petits Chaperons rouges)