Powering Great Work
We started as the place to find a trusted trade. Now, as we shape the future of home improvement, we're building the tech to transform that landscape for everyone - better products, smarter data, AI where it actually helps - so trades can spend less time on admin and consumers can find someone they trust, first time. That's Powering Great Work, and it's why every team here exists:
🔧 Trades spend less time on admin and more on winning work and growing their business
🏠 Homeowners get a trusted trade, first time, every time
🚀 We get to build products that change homes and lives across the country
As our next Applied Scientist, you'll help build the UK's go-to home improvement marketplace by making sure the numbers behind it are right. AI is doing more of the heavy lifting on analysis, and you'll be the human layer above it. You'll own the direction of your work, partner with data scientists on models and systems with real impact, and work closely with the C-suite on making the business more data-driven.
The job, unfiltered:
Own metric integrity: define and govern what our numbers actually mean, so nobody makes a call off a flawed definition or a dodgy query.
Act as the quality gate on AI-generated analysis, checking the logic and validating the output so errors are caught before they reach a stakeholder.
Design and interpret A/B tests: set the success metrics, size the sample properly and call it when a result is underpowered rather than running with it.
Diagnose what's driving commercial performance, such as why revenue is moving, where leads drop out of the funnel and which segments are underperforming, and turn that into a structured investigation with real hypotheses.
Turn analysis into action: size the commercial impact, lay out the trade-offs, help the business decide what to do differently, then track whether it worked.
Build interactive dashboards and self-serve tools that keep stakeholders oriented day to day, without an analyst needing to be in the loop every time.
The fit:
A track record across diagnosing, analysing and acting: not just producing analysis, but finding the cause and driving the change that moved the outcome.
Fluency with SQL, Python and core data concepts, so you can tell when an output is wrong before anyone else spots it.
Experience designing experiments and turning statistical findings into commercial recommendations that hold up under scrutiny.
A knack for explaining complex findings to non-technical audiences in a way that moves a decision.
Experience in a marketplace, subscription or lead-generation business is a bonus.
Experience with tools like Tableau or Looker is a bonus too.
(Don't self-select out because you don't tick every box. We'd rather meet you.)
What you get
💰 Competitive salary, annual bonus & equity scheme
🩺 Health, wellbeing and learning support
🚲 Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme, Cycle Scheme
🎂 Birthday/special day leave, buy & sell holiday scheme
❤️ 1 week's paid charity leave, and more
How this goes
Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
1st stage: interview with the hiring manager
2nd stage: interview made up of two speed rounds with stakeholders
Final stage: panel interview, including a short analysis case study
Not this one? Stay close anyway. Join the Talent Community and we'll ping you the second something better fits.
About us
We’re Checkatrade – the UK’s leading platform for finding a tradesperson. With more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews, we help homeowners get jobs done right and help tradespeople grow their business.
We’re growing fast, with big plans to become the go-to brand for home improvements. If you care about great work, take pride in the details, and want to make an impact, you’ll fit right in.
Skills Required
- Proven track record across analysis, diagnosing causes, and driving actions that changed outcomes.
- Fluency with SQL and core data concepts to sense-check outputs.
- Experience designing, sizing, and interpreting A/B tests and experiments.
- Ability to translate statistical findings into commercial recommendations and explain to non-technical audiences.
- Experience building interactive dashboards and self-serve analytics tools for stakeholders.
- Experience with Python, Tableau, Looker, or marketplace/subscription/lead-generation businesses (bonus).
What We Do
Checkatrade is one of the UK’s top online marketplaces for home improvements and repairs. Our mission is to be the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy – because we believe safe and happy homes improve lives, support livelihoods, and build communities. From our humble beginnings in 1998 to becoming a national household name, we’re on an exciting journey. For more than 25 years Checkatrade has stood for reputation and raising standards – whether that is for our trade members, consumers, or our colleagues. We think big and are passionate about changing the face of home improvements and repairs. Today, we are a modern online marketplace and a force for good. We strive every day to support people to improve their homes and we don’t settle for the status quo – we are evolving, innovating, and growing. With generous investment from private equity partners Brookfield, we have an ambitious growth plan and a robust roadmap to get there. Led by our values – Be All In, Always Customer Obsessed, Get It Done, Be Bold, and Do The Right Thing – we are 500 high-performing individuals working across the UK, with high-spec offices in London and Portsmouth. We are here to be the best and inspire others to do the same, and to get there we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people – so if that sounds like you, you couldn’t join at a better time!
