About Us
Cookpad's mission is to "Make everyday cooking fun." We believe solving everyday cooking challenges worldwide will encourage more people to enjoy cooking, ultimately addressing larger societal issues. Cookpad operates three key services: the globally recognised recipe-sharing platform "Cookpad," the e-commerce service "Cookpad Mart" for easy access to fresh ingredients, and the coaching service "Moment" which helps users cook like professionals.
We’re looking for an experienced, innovative data scientist to join the CEO and Founder’s Office team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working in a fast growing digital product organisation, a high level of agency and courage to express ideas and opinions backed with data/evidence. You will work in close partnership with the CEO – who is also the founder of the company– to ensure data is at the heart of decision in product development.
You will be comfortable embracing the fast paced and sometimes scrappy world of startups, be focused on creating user value, and have demonstrated success in building and developing a data-driven organisation. You will demonstrate a high level of initiative and your ability to work independently with minimal guidance.
Requirements
Responsibilities
- Leverage data to perform intensive analysis across all areas of our business to drive product development
- Collaborate with CEO, Products, and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
- Build partnerships with senior stakeholders across the business and actively contribute to the product's strategic direction
- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our core products
- Generate ideas for exploratory analysis and drive a culture of testing to shape future projects and provide recommendations for actions
- Evangelise data best practices across the organisation
What we are looking for
- BS/MS qualifications in Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science or similar fields
- Hands-on experience with at least one scripting language e.g. Python, R, MATLAB and relevant statistical packages.
- Hands-on experience with complex SQL
- Expert knowledge of Tableau
- Extensive experience in senior data roles where data plays a key comparative advantage or is essential to the bottom line of the business
- Experience building testing platforms at scale (A/B, multivariate, randomised and stratified controlled testing, predictive analytics etc)
- Experience in delivering long term outcomes in a fast changing environment.
- Strong desire to take initiative; thrive on change and comfortable with ambiguity
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexibility re relocation - this role is based in Tokyo
Why you are a great fit
- You are passionate about data being at the heart of decision making
- You thrive in uncertain environments, continuously planning from the desired state and finding excitement in completing tasks on schedule.
- You excel in collaborating effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- You balance technical constraints and user needs and find optimal solutions.
What we offer
- The position is full-time employment, subject to a probation period.
- A competitive salary
- The chance to work in a fast-paced, highly ambitious team
- Fully stocked large cooking spaces where we cook and eat together
Top Skills
What We Do
Cookpad is a tech company working to make everyday cooking fun because we believe that cooking is the key to a happier and healthier life for people, communities and the planet. The choices we make shape our world. And when we cook, the choices we make have an impact on ourselves, the people we cook for, the growers and producers we buy from and the wider environment.
From our global HQ in Bristol, UK, our team of more than 100 product managers, designers and engineers are working with our community teams around the world to develop a recipe sharing platform and cooking community that connects home cooks all over the world and empowers them to help each other to cook by sharing recipes, tips and experiences.
We're a team of exceptional people, deeply committed to what we do, do what it takes, and have a lot of fun doing it. With over 40 nationalities across our product and community teams, we deeply respect and cherish the difference of each culture, and view it as one of our core strengths.
As our founder Aki often says, "Life is a scarce resource." We want our team members to have the biggest possible impact in the world, period. We believe that only passionate and purposeful people create a lasting positive change. Not all our people are passionate about cooking to begin with, but they are passionate about the problems they want to solve - be they technical, societal or environmental. We believe that only those who can find an expression of their own passion and purpose in the context of Cookpad’s mission will have the boldness and resilience required to generate the kind of impact we aspire to.
If you're someone who's ready to think big, act boldly and execute with urgency, we want to hear from you. Find out what it's like to work at Cookpad and view our latest opportunities at careers.cookpad.com
