Your tasks:
* Lead and develop a team of data scientists, fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and impact
* Design and implement new data products to support content personalization, audience segmentation, and churn prediction
* Oversee end-to-end model lifecycle - from ideation and experimentation to deployment and monitoring
* Collaborate closely with Product, Editorial and Marketing teams to translate business objectives into data-driven solutions
* Carrying out more complex analyses including preparation and presentation of the results
* Promote best practices in data science, including code quality, experimentation, and reproducibility
* Contribute to the broader data strategy, helping shape the evolution of NZZ's data and AI capabilities
Your profile:
* Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, etc.)
* 5+ years of experience in data science, with at least 2 years in a leadership or mentoring role
* Strong theoretical and practical know-how in statistics, machine learning and natural language processing
* Excellent understanding of experimental design, A/B testing, and data-driven decision-making
* Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Vertex AI
* Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
* Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Must have: very good knowledge of English, nice to have: knowledge of German
We offer:
* Challenging and diverse activities in an interdisciplinary task field with a high level of autonomy and the possibility to contribute to the digital transformation of one of the best-known media brands in the German speaking area.
* Premium working environment: central location with offices «at Bellevue» in the heart of Zurich – with a view to the opera house and the lake - with a large selection of shopping opportunities and restaurants in walking distance.
* Flexible working hours and home office is part of our culture.
Isabelle Liechti, HR Business Partner
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