THE ROLE & THE TEAM

One of the main drivers for conversion in online retail is the delivery promise, informing fashion customers about when they can expect their shipment to arrive. Our team owns the forecasting of processing times for all the paths in the complex fulfillment network on which this delivery promise is based. Improving the precision of these predictions has a huge impact on customer satisfaction, allows better fulfillment planning, and enables the business to make better-informed tradeoff decisions.

Our team is composed of applied scientists and software engineers. As an applied scientist, you’ll design, train, extend, and continuously improve forecasting models based on features extracted from diverse datasets produced by high-throughput systems. You’ll do so in close collaboration with the software engineers in your team, who are responsible for building best in class services and infrastructure for experimentation and applying these models in production. A significant part of your role will be to research new opportunities and work closely with stakeholders to understand the underlying business processes and model them in the best possible way to feed into our models.

If you have a passion for creating forecasting models at scale and solving complex problems, we want to hear from you. This is a unique opportunity to make a real impact and help drive the success of our business.  

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit. 

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process. 

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy

Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Contribute to modeling, solving, and implementing forecasting models within our research-driven software framework to cater for the increasing scale and load and novel use cases. Constantly question the model and the algorithms we use and seek for a constant improvement.

• Act as a technical lead and mentor for mid-level Applied Scientists, providing guidance on experimental design, code quality, and scientific excellence.