Staff Data Scientist

Hej, Truecaller is calling you from Stockholm, Sweden! Ready to pick up?

Our goal is to make communication smarter, safer, and more efficient, all while building trust everywhere. We’re all about bringing you smart services with a big social impact, keeping you safe from fraud, harassment, scam calls or messages, so you can focus on the conversations that matter.

• Top 20 most downloaded apps globally, and world’s #1 caller ID and spam-blocking service for Android and iOS, with extensive AI capabilities, with more than 400 million active users per month. 
• Founded in 2009, listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm and is categorized as a Large Cap. Our focus on innovation, operational excellence, sustainable growth, and collaboration has resulted in consistently high profitability and strong EBITDA margins.
• A team of 400 people from ~35 different nationalities spread across our headquarters in Stockholm and offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Tel Aviv with high ambitions. 

We, at the Data Science and Analytics Products team build centralized data products that serve the business and our customers. We collaborate across all of Truecaller, delivering products that require centralized ownership or where the competence to build the products is not present in the wider product organization.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be the right hand of the VP of Data Science and Analytics, you will take fuzzy business goals and transform them into data science products that can deliver value iteratively. Leading the data science work in the team, you will be responsible for structuring the work and ensuring that the outcomes match the business objectives. A significant part of this leadership will be coaching and mentoring other data scientists to guide and speed their development, unblocking them and finding ways to make the team as happy and productive as possible.

Collaboration is a central requirement for this role, both when working with stakeholders, but also within the team to deliver results that cannot be delivered by one person on their own

The impact you will create:

• Exploring the problem space and finding data science solutions that provide step increases in customer experience
• Planning data science work for the team, with an emphasis on collaboration to achieve common goals
• Gathering, collating, and understanding the data necessary to create data science products that delight the customers
• Collaborating with stakeholders throughout Truecaller to find and build data science products that solve business and customer problems at scale.
• Coaching and mentoring junior to senior data scientists to improve their technical skills and productivity

What you bring in: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in using data science and machine learning to solve real-world problems
• A track record leading data science projects in a team, collaborating in planning, coding, and communication
• Excellent programming skills in Python and SQL
• Solid understanding and experience with the tooling for Python – IDEs, unit testing frameworks, and static code checks
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present complex data and insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving skills and a results-oriented mindset
• Customer obsession
• Able to own and drive projects and products to production and iteratively improve them over time

It would be great if you also have: 

• Understanding how to query very large data efficiently (we use BigQuery)
• Experience collaborating with C-suite executives
• Experience with data from mobile applications
• Experience with data visualization and reporting tools, such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI (we use Looker)
• A solid understanding of the engineering requirements necessary to put machine learning solutions into production and scale them to hundreds of millions of customers

Life at Truecaller – Behind the code:  https://www.instagram.com/lifeattruecaller/

Sounds like your dream job?

We will fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate, so please send your application as soon as possible. As part of the recruitment process, we will conduct a background check.

 This position is based in Stockholm, Sweden. 

We only accept applications in English. 

What we offer: 

• A smart, talented, and agile team: An international team where  ~35 nationalities are working together in several locations and time zones with a learning, sharing, and fun environment. 
• A great compensation package: Competitive salary, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible working hours, private health insurance, parental leave top-up, pension contribution, Udemy membership to keep learning and improving, and free gym membership. 
• Great tech tools: Pick the computer and phone you most fancy within our budget ranges. 
• Do it your way: We work in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays with flexibility on the other days. 
• Office life: Enjoy your days with a wide range of yummy snacks and beverages, and have fun in our playroom! As well as in our exciting company parties and team activities such as Lab days, Running team, and Geek lunch!

Come as you are:
Truecaller is diverse, equal, and inclusive. We need a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences to keep building our great products. No matter where you are based, which language you speak, your accent, race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, etc. All those things make you who you are, and that’s why we would love to meet you