Senior Data Scientist

Tilt
London
7 months ago
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About Tilt

We’re building the next century of shopping—making it feel human, communal, and alive again. E-commerce has spent decades optimizing for clicks, stripping away the trust, joy, and connection that once made shopping meaningful.

About Tilt

We’re building the next century of shopping—making it feel human, communal, and alive again. E-commerce has spent decades optimizing for clicks, stripping away the trust, joy, and connection that once made shopping meaningful.

We’ve recently raised an $18M Series A from the world’s best investors to build the next era of commerce. Now, we’re hiring elite builders to make it happen.

About The Role

As a Growth Data Scientist, you’ll own the quantitative engine behind user acquisition, engagement, and seller activation. You’ll design experiments, build models, and drive data-informed decisions across product and growth initiatives. You’ll work within our cross-functional Growth team, collaborating closely with marketing, product, design, and engineering.

In this role, you will:

0–3 Months

  • Ship business-critical analyses on usage, retention and activation. Spot key signals to shape product direction
  • Get curious, dive deep into our data to improve our foundational metrics
  • Audit & improve data infrastructure, document data sources and build pipelines
  • Own core company dashboards and refine them to make insights accessible to the full team.
  • Create a shared vocabulary across products and operations (e.g., “active user,” “successful transaction,” etc.).

3+ Months

  • Scale our analytics culture through education, process, and documentation. You’ll turn yourself into a multiplier
  • Work closely with product and ops on growth experiments, operational bottlenecks, and behavioural insights
  • Own continuous improvements to data quality, modelling, and warehouse efficiency
  • Collaborate closely with leadership on strategic questions—customer segmentation, pricing experiments, expansion bets

Location:

This is a hybrid role, and we ask that you work from our Canary Wharf office 3 days per week.

Who You Are

You’re a data-driven storyteller who cares about impact.

  • 3+ years in data science, analytics, or experimentation—ideally in high-growth startups or scale-ups
  • Strong quantitative skills—A/B testing, causal inference, regression, forecasting
  • ML/modeling experience (e.g. churn, LTV, propensity models)
  • Proficient in SQL, Python/R; experience with event instrumentation and analytics tools
  • Experience building dashboards and tracking metric health
  • Excellent communicator—can explain insights clearly to engineers, designers, marketers, and leaders
  • Entrepreneurial mindset—comfortable in ambiguity and fast iteration
  • Based in London, able to be in Canary Wharf 3 days/week

Bonus points for:

  • Familiarity with growth analytics tools (Amplitude, Mixpanel, DBT)
  • Prior experience in e‑commerce, marketplaces, or live video environments

Our Stack

  • Data & Infrastructure: Snowflake, S3, OpenSearch, AWS Lambda & Batch, Dagster, dbt
  • Analytics & Experimentation: Amplitude, Appsflyer, Metabase
  • Orchestration & Modelling: Dagster for pipelines, dbt for transformations, and a strong experimentation layer across tools.

Why Tilt

  • You’ll be joining a mission-driven team backed by world-class investors (TechCrunch)
  • You’ll own meaningful systems from day one, with real scope and autonomy
  • You’ll work alongside curious, kind, and wickedly smart teammates
  • You’ll help redefine how millions of people shop online

Curious what it’s like to work at Tilt? Start here.

Or just download the app on the UK App Store and see for yourself.

Perks & Benefits

  • 29 days PTO in addition to UK Bank Holidays
  • Canary Wharf office
  • Gym membership
  • MacBook and office budget
  • Matched pension contributions
  • 3 days a week in the office incl. Monday and Thursday
  • Free dinner for late workers

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and we’re committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse workplace.

If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job description, please don’t be put off from applying. We value potential and a willingness to learn over ticking every box — your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.

Let us know if you need any adjustments during the application process — we’re happy to help.

Compensation Range: £100K - £150K

Seniority level

  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment typeFull-time

Job function

  • Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
  • IndustriesTechnology, Information and Internet

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