Senior Data Scientist, Central Data Products

Team mission

At the Central Data Products team, our mission is to build, operate, and drive adoption of horizontal data products that empower multiple clusters across GetYourGuide.

We are a horizontal team within central services, and our products are pivotal to the entire flywheel: Consumer, Growth, and Supply. We own the systems that decide how our marketplace is understood and organized: location and travel category tagging that powers landing pages, the landing page eligibility framework that unlocks marketing efficiency at scale, destination maps and travel-relevance models that steer supply acquisition into untapped markets, and the Customer Lifetime Value model that shifts the company from short-term revenue optimization to long-term customer value. Many of these systems are LLM-based and running in production today.

As the Senior Data Science Manager of Central Data Products, you will lead the vision, strategy, and execution of a portfolio of data and ML products used across the company. Your team is senior and cross-functional (Data Scientists, MLOps Engineers, and a Product Manager), and its output is measured in company-level business impact, not in models shipped.

Your mission:

• Develop innovative data products that not only enable suppliers to delight our customers but also drive the success of our company.

• Take full ownership of projects, guiding them from the initial business challenge to the deployment of production code. This includes:

  • Analyzing large datasets to uncover meaningful insights

  • Building and maintaining robust data pipelines

  • Establishing rigorous evaluation and monitoring strategies, as well as in-production guardrails. Monitoring and optimizing data products after deployment

• Contribute to the development of our machine learning infrastructure and help establish best practices that will shape our future.

• Work closely with cross-functional technology and business teams, leveraging your unique perspective to solve complex and exciting problems.

• Support the continuous improvement and growth of our team, including participating in recruiting efforts to bring in new talent.

Your toolkit:

• Machine Learning.  You have 5+ years of experience deploying ML models in production coupled with a solid understanding of ML techniques and their practical applications. Experience deploying and maintaining ML models in production is a must.

• Analytics. Ability to turn data into actionable insights for business stakeholders. Experience with hypothesis testing and proficiency in analytics tools (e.g., pandas/polars) and SQL/Spark.

• Experience with LLMs and Agentic AI. You have experience working in production with prompt design, tool use, orchestration (e.g., LangChain), retrieval/RAG, evaluator design, guardrails, and tracing/observability is a plus.

• Software Engineering Proficiency in Python. Knowledge of distributed machine learning and computing frameworks (e.g., Spark) is beneficial.

• Business Acumen. You have experience in a fast-paced business environment, demonstrating result-driven work.

• Communication. Strong skills in explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• An advanced degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.

How we’ll make your career journey extraordinary

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development

• Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year

• A hybrid working approach with three days of in office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thur) and two days of optional at home focus time.

• Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events

• Monthly transportation and fitness budget

• Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities

• Language reimbursement program

• Health and wellness benefits