Senior Data Scientist – Trust & Safety

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Bumble is looking for a Senior Data scientist to join our Trust & Safety Group and play a key role fulfilling our mission to create a world where all relationships are healthy and equitable. Concretely, this means exploring our large datasets, developing statistical approaches, and designing data driven strategies for products that provide a safe and engaging experience for our users and improve the way Bumble operates.

With billions of collected data points and millions of images and messages exchanged on our platform every day, there is a wealth of opportunity to make a real difference in this role and help people to find love all over the world! The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen, extensive experience in data science and advanced analytics along with a background in trust & safety.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET SOMEONE WITH

• Support a cross-functional team composed of machine learning scientists and machine learning engineers
• Analyse large sets of data and work closely with Safety Product Management to educate roadmaps and define key metrics, aligning them with Bumble Inc’s goals.
• Identify areas of maximum value and contribute to setting up frameworks for evaluating algorithmic improvements.
• Coordinate with Safety Analysts and Program Managers to provide our members a safe and trusted experience, and proactively engage in educating the development of large-scale improvements to our proactive detection measures
• Initiate and conduct large-scale experiments to test hypotheses and drive product development.
• Partner effectively with business functions and engineering teams to translate problems into scalable AI solutions, leveraging the richness of our extensive and intricate datasets.
• Foster a culture of insightful storytelling across our Group and the business, emphasising collaboration and connection within the team. Your style is characterised by empathy, open communication, and a commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion.

AN ADDED BONUS IF YOU HAVE

• A proven background in trust & safety or experience of working in a similar role
• Experience in using advanced statistical methods to solve problems. This can either be through academic projects and publications, or experience analysing and solving problems within industry
• An interest in exploring people management at some point in the future. Whilst this is not a people management role at present, our team is growing and we’d love to know if you have aspirations to move into that area.
• An understanding of multi-sided markets and/or dating problem space
• A basic knowledge of software development life cycle processes and tools – ETL pipelines, CI/CD, MLOps, agile methodologies, version control (git)

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, Fruitz and Official. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through kind connections. Founded by CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date), friendship (Bumble BFF) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors. Official is an app for couples that promotes open and honest communication between partners and was founded in 2020.