Data Scientist

About the role

Marley Spoon is seeking a Data Scientist to transform data into practical machine-learning solutions that drive personalization, forecasting and decision-making across its food-delivery business. This hybrid position is based in Portugal, with regular collaboration from the Lisbon office and flexible remote work.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy recommendation and personalization models that tailor meals, recipes and content to individual customer preferences.
• Build and maintain time-series forecasting and planning models to improve demand prediction, logistics decisions and food-waste reduction.
• Support retention and marketing initiatives through churn prediction, customer-lifetime-value modelling and campaign optimisation.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing and operations teams, taking ownership from problem definition through experimentation, production deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear explanations for non-technical stakeholders.

Required profile

• At least 3 years of experience in applied data science or a closely related role.
• Strong foundation in machine learning, statistics and time-series modelling; experience with recommender systems is a plus.
• Hands-on experience taking models from prototype to reliable, maintainable production.
• Ability to work in agile, cross-functional product teams and focus on measurable business impact.
• Experience in subscription, e-commerce or consumer-product environments is desirable.

Required skills

• Python
• SQL
• scikit-learn
• PyTorch
• XGBoost
• Snowflake
• Looker
• Airflow