Head of Data Science

About Cabify

Do you want to change the world? At Cabify, that’s what we’re doing. We aim to make cities better places to live by improving mobility for the people living in them, connecting riders to drivers at the touch of a button. Maybe one day cities will be places where nobody needs a private car. But we’ve still got a long way to go...fancy joining us?

Founded in 2011, we have become the first Spanish tech ‘unicorn’. Our HQ is in Madrid but you can currently find us in 38 cities across Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Every month, new members join our world-class team of passionate, smart and talented individuals with a hunger to challenge the status quo.

Position

• Lead the Data Science Organization to deliver fast, reliable and high quality results.
• Deliver cross-team, company-wide impactful projects.
• Provide advice to multidisciplinary teams with Product, Engineering and Growth people on how Data Science can be instrumental to achieve goals, but also let them know about limitations and when a positive impact is not to be expected. 
• Own teams health and wellbeing. Ensure they have enough slack time to think and make better long term decisions accepting short term trade offs consciously.
• Establish process and protocols to further improve quality of results and impact of data scientist in the organisation

Your qualification

• Great soft skills, we deeply believe that people's wellbeing at the core of our mission.
• A broad knowledge of statistics, machine learning and experiment design.
• Experience in building and nurturing data scientists
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and solutions to non-technical audiences. 
• Ability to work independently, with 2 pizza  teams in large organizations.
• Ability to understand and help make great product and business decisions.
• Ability to achieve results in a fast paced, ever changing environment.
• Experience as manager of managers is a plus
• Experience with spatial data science is a plus
• Experience with behavioural science is a plus
   

What we offer

• Excellent Salary conditions: From 70K EUR for the Head of Science role. 
• We also offer a very competitive stock options plan. At Cabify we strongly believe highly committed, vision-aligned key roles must be long term investment in the company success, thus a significant portion of the compensation of roles such as this one goes in the form of stock options. 
• We offer relocation packages to those coming from other countries
• Remote days available if you want the on-site experience, else it can be fully remote.
• Flexible work environment & hours, we don’t count hours, but focus on delivery.
• Regular fun team events
• Cabify staff discount
• Personal development programmes
• Flexible remuneration: subsidized restaurant tickets, transport tickets, healthcare and childcare
• A pet room on-site so you don’t have to leave your furry friend at home.
• All the gear you need.