Principal Data Scientist

You've probably heard of Autotrader, but do you know what we're all about?

We're the most trusted, most visited automotive marketplace in the UK. A heritage brand and a tech innovator. We bring together vehicle buyers and sellers to give them real choices. Cars may be what we're best known for but we’re also the place for pretty much everything else on wheels, from e-bikes to caravans.

In the automotive world, change is a constant, that’s why we take our job of untangling the complex car-buying journey very seriously.

Enjoy being an accountable leader of cross-functional teams 
Think strategically about the commercial impact of products, making the right decisions and unlocking business value with Data Science 
Comfortable taking a holistic responsibility for delivery, bridging the interleaving dependencies of Data Science projects across organisational boundaries 
Care deeply about the rigour and quality of our scientific outputs, balancing complexity with practicality and are confident challenging processes 
Highly dependable leader and source of advice, yet are humble, inviting the challenge of their ideas 
Love spotting and solving unique problems that require them to pioneer novel approaches. As astute researcher, you are able to proactively identify opportunities, efficiently size them up and make compelling cases to Senior stakeholders 
Analytical generalists, comfortable leading projects with ambiguous requirements and complex constraints, requiring them to draw upon expertise with a wide range of Data Science topics 
Exemplars of our data lifecycle, tech estate and tooling, including Python, Spark, SQL and MLflow 
Passionate about leading people and elevating the technical capability of the whole discipline 

If that sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application! 
During our application process, you will be asked two questions to help us learn more about you and how you align with our values. These will be used as part of our selection criteria, to determine if we progress your application further.