Global Director, Real-Time ML & Operations Research

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Director of Data Science & Machine Learning in a hybrid, London-focused role. You will lead a global team of data scientists, OR scientists, ML engineers and MLOps engineers to optimize the delivery network and push the frontier of AI in a high-scale marketplace.

Responsibilities include setting the DS/OR/ML agenda, designing low-latency real-time systems, and shaping incentive-based pay and pricing strategies.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in large data/ML organizations.
• Experience taking models from research to low-latency production at scale.
• Strong grounding in experimentation and causal inference in network effects.

Responsibilities

• Own the DS/OR/ML agenda for real-time decision systems at marketplace scale.
• Lead strategy for demand forecasting, supply balancing, and dynamic pricing.
• Shape courier behavior through incentive design and causal modelling.
• Define validation frameworks, backtesting and simulation for production models.
• Build and govern the ML platform, pipelines, CI/CD and monitoring.

Skills

Leadership

Real-time ML

Operations Research

Causal inference

Stakeholder management

Education

Advanced degree in quantitative field

Tools

Python

TensorFlow

SQL

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Director of Data Science & Machine Learning in a hybrid, London-focused role. You will lead a global team of data scientists, OR scientists, ML engineers and MLOps engineers to optimize the delivery network and push the frontier of AI in a high-scale marketplace.

Responsibilities include setting the DS/OR/ML agenda, designing low-latency real-time systems, and shaping incentive-based pay and pricing strategies.