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Wave Group

Wave Group

Senior Data Scientist (Pricing)

London Hybrid 5-10 yrs exp Staffing and Recruiting 88 employees£100k – £123k / year
PythonSQLModellingPricing StrategyMarketplace Dynamics

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a strong modeller fluent in Python and SQL with experience in marketplace dynamics or pricing strategy. You must be able to operate with high autonomy and communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders.

Job Description

💻 Job Title: Senior Data Scientist (Pricing)

💰 Salary: up to £122.5k

🔥 Equity: up to 170% (!!!) - insanely generous 🥵

  • 70% guaranteed upon joining
  • up to 100% additional allotment based on performance in 1st year

📍 Location: Shoreditch (4 office days/week)

🌴 Benefits:

  • Private healthcare & dental cover
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Office lunches

📦 Industry: Logistics

👥 Team: ~110

💸 Funding: ~$45m (Series A)

🛂 VISA sponsorship available if needed


This company is hands-down the hottest logistics scale up in Europe, taking the industry by storm and growing at an astronomical pace.


Every parcel that moves through their network generates thousands of data points. Those data points feed forecasts, optimisation models, and an increasingly autonomous AI marketplace. The Analytics Engineer in this role owns the foundations that make all of it possible, sitting within the company's biggest and most data-rich squad.


If you want to be at the heart of something genuinely transformative, this might be for you.


🛠️ What you'll be doing:

  • Building and maintaining production models that drive 1000s of daily pricing decisions
  • Investigating marketplace pricing dynamics to define how routes are priced
  • Running experiments to measure the impact of model and pricing strategy changes
  • Partnering with OR Scientists, Analysts and Engineers to automate pricing decisions end to end


✅ Must have requirements:

  • Strong modeller who thinks in systems
  • Fluent in Python & SQL
  • Experience modelling marketplace dynamics, pricing strategy, or a comparable domain
  • Comfortable operating with high autonomy
  • Clear communicator with non-technical stakeholders


👍 Bonus points for:

  • Real-time/dynamic pricing experience (ride-hailing, delivery, revenue management)
  • Experimentation or causal inference background
  • Prior work in marketplaces or two-sided platforms

Skills

PythonSQLModellingPricing StrategyMarketplace DynamicsExperimentationCausal InferenceSystems ThinkingData ScienceAutonomous AIOptimization ModelsStakeholder Communication

About Wave Group

Wave enables companies to scale. Our mission is clear. Fuel growth by building the teams and advisory support behind it. We combine talent and consulting to solve the same problem. How you hire. How you structure. How you move. We connect tech, product and data talent with companies shaping what’s next. From critical hires to full team builds. We provide consulting across hiring strategy, team design and market insight. Practical guidance. Clear decisions. Better outcomes. Our approach is human and precise. Defined search. Structured delivery. Straight advice. With over 1,000 public LinkedIn testimonials and 300+ partnerships, the work holds up.. Curious to learn more? hello@wavetalent.co www.wave-group.io/