About the Team
Our Data Science team is the Avengers to Meesho’s S.H.I.E.L.D 🛡️. And why not? We are the ones who assemble during the toughest challenges and devise creative solutions, building intelligent systems for millions of our users looking at a thousand different categories of products. We’ve barely scratched the surface, and have amazing challenges in charting the future of commerce for Bharat.
Our typical day involves dealing with fraud detection, inventory optimisation, and platform vernacularisation.
As Data Scientist, you will navigate uncharted territories with us, discovering new paths to creating solutions for our users.🔍 You will be at the forefront of interesting challenges and solve unique customer problems in an untapped market.
But wait – there’s more to us. Our team is huge on having a well-rounded personal and professional life. When we aren't nose-deep in data, you will most likely find us belting “Summer of 69” at the nearest Karaoke bar, or debating who the best Spider-Man is: Maguire, Garfield, or Holland? You tell us ☺️
About the Role
Love deep data? Love discussing solutions instead of problems? Then you could be our next Data Scientist.
In a nutshell, your primary responsibility will be enhancing the productivity and utilisation of the generated data. Other things you will do include working closely with the business stakeholders, transforming scattered pieces of information into valuable data and sharing and presenting your valuable insights with peers.
What you will do
- Develop models and run experiments to infer insights from hard data
- Improve our product usability and identify new growth opportunities
- Understand reseller preferences to provide them with the most relevant products
- Designing discount programs to help our resellers sell more
- Help resellers better recognise end-customer preferences to improve their revenue
- Use data to identify bottlenecks that will help our suppliers meet their SLA requirements
- Model seasonal demand to predict key organisational metrics
- Mentor junior data scientists in the team
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science (or similar degrees)
- 1-2 years of experience as a Data Scientist in a fast-paced organization, preferably B2C
- Familiarity with Neural Networks, Machine Learning, etc
- Familiarity with tools like SQL, R, Python, etc.
- Strong understanding of Statistics and Linear Algebra Strong understanding of hypothesis/model testing and ability to identify common model testing errors
- Experience designing and running A/B tests and drawing insights from them
- Proficiency in machine learning algorithms
- Excellent analytical skills to fetch data from reliable sources to generate accurate insights
- Experience in tech and product teams is a plus
- Experience in working on personalization or other ML problems
- Familiarity with Big Data tech stacks like Apache Spark, Hadoop, Redshift
About Meesho
Meesho is India’s fastest growing e-commerce company. We started in 2015 with the idea of helping mom & pop stores to sell online. Today, 5% of Indian households shop with us on any given day 😎. We’ve helped over 15 million individual entrepreneurs start online businesses with zero investment. We’re democratising internet commerce by offering a 0% commission model for sellers on our platform — a first for India. We aim to become the e-commerce destination for Bharat. How? Find out from our blogs!
We’re currently valued at $4.9 billion with marquee investors supporting our vision. Some of them include Sequoia Capital, Softbank, Fidelity, Prosus Ventures, Facebook and Elevation Capital. We were also featured in Y Combinator’s 2021 Top Companies List, and were the only Indian startup to make it to Fast Company’s The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2020. We ranked 6th in Linkedin’s Top Startups List 2021. Our strongest asset is our people. We have gender-neutral and inclusive policies to promote our people-first culture. Please check out meesho. careers for our openings.
Our Mission
Democratise internet commerce for everyone
Our Purpose
Har Indian ka APNA MARKET
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