Founding Data Scientist

Company: AIApply
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Location: London
Job Description:

About AIApply

We’re a scaling, founder-led B2C subscription business, helping people land jobs faster with AI-driven auto-apply, resume tailoring, and interview prep. Millions of high-intent candidates have used the product.

We’re now moving beyond tools into infrastructure, building a verified talent layer for employers, expanding distribution beyond paid social, and creating a defensible organic moat.

We move fast, ship often, and run a flat, high-ownership team.

What you’ll do

You will become the person the company trusts when it asks:

“Is this actually working?”

That means:

  • Building a clean, reliable data layer across product, revenue, and user behaviour
  • Defining the core metrics the company runs on
  • Making every experiment measurable, interpretable, and comparable
  • Identifying the highest-leverage opportunities in the product (especially early churn and onboarding)
  • Turning data into decisions, not dashboards

Over time, you’ll shape how we prioritise work across the entire company.

What success looks like

Within your first few months:

  • Every key initiative has a clear baseline and measurable outcome
  • The team trusts a single source of truth for metrics
  • Experiments have clear readouts and influence product decisions
  • You’ve identified at least one high-impact opportunity and driven it into execution

Longer term:

  • AIApply runs on a coherent metrics system
  • Experimentation becomes a core operating rhythm
  • Product, growth, and data are tightly integrated
  • You help scale this into a small, high-leverage team
  • Who we’re looking for

    You’re a product-minded operator who can both build and think.

    You might come from:

    • Product (strong data + experimentation bias)
    • Analytics / data science (with real product ownership)
    • Engineering (especially backend / Laravel) with a strong product instinct

    What matters:

    • You can go from raw data → insight → decision → action
    • You’ve worked on a real product with real users and revenue
    • You’re comfortable getting hands-on (SQL, pipelines, tooling — whatever is needed)
    • You challenge bad experiments, not just measure them
    • You care about outcomes, not reporting

    Strong signals

    • You’ve owned metrics or experimentation in a live product
    • You’ve built or cleaned up a messy data layer
    • You’ve killed ideas based on data (not just validated them)
    • You can write clearly and explain decisions simply

    Bonus:

    Experience with marketplaces, subscriptions, or LLM-driven products.

    Not a fit

    • You’re purely academic or research-focused
    • You only want to analyse, not build or influence
    • You need a perfect stack before you start

    Comp & process

    Competitive base + meaningful equity. We’re profitable. the equity is real.

    Process:

    • 30 min intro
    • Paid take-home (lightweight, real data)
    • Working session with the team
    • References → offer

    We can move quickly.

    Posted: April 29th, 2026