Senior Product Data Scientist

Senior Product Data Scientist

We’re looking for a Senior Product Data Scientist to join our Insights team. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and machine learning to deliver insights, drive experimentation, and shape the future of Depop’s product ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics and technical discovery for a core product area.
• Partner with product, engineering, and ML teams to tackle ambiguous problems where the path forward is unclear.
• Identify opportunities for analysis, develop new approaches, and generate insights that directly shape product and ML roadmaps.
• Provide a strategic lens to product thinking by connecting user behaviour, marketplace dynamics and commercial outcomes.
• Influence prioritisation decisions at both team and company level, acting as a thought partner.
• Define hypotheses, implement A/B tests, and rigorously evaluate impact with deep dives and customer behaviour insights.
• Collaborate with product, platform and data teams to ensure scalable, accurate datasets for analysis.
• Develop dashboards and reporting that drive awareness and actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills and experience querying large, complex datasets.
• Proficiency in Python, with experience in advanced analytics techniques, analysing model outputs or supporting ML evaluation workflows.
• Familiarity with ETL workflows and debugging data issues.
• Proven experience with experimentation.
• Hands-on experience with visualisation tools (Looker, Tableau, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills—able to explain complex topics clearly and persuasively.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to balance user and business needs.
• Strong sense of ownership, highly organised, and proactive.
• Comfortable working across ambiguity and fast-changing environments.

Bonus Points

• Experience in C2C marketplaces or mobile-first consumer products.
• Experience working alongside machine learning teams or embedding data science in ML-powered product discovery.

Benefits

• Health + Mental Wellbeing: PMI and cash plan, healthcare access with Bupa, subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space.
• Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support.
• Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting.
• Work/Life Balance: 25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days.
• Impact hours: Up to 2 days of additional paid leave per year for volunteering.
• Fully paid 4-week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop.
• Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options (*role-dependent).
• Family Life: For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees; For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees.
• IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave.
• Learning + Grow: Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews; learning budget; upskilling with company-wide training workshops.
• Life Insurance: financial compensation of 3x your salary.
• Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva.
• Depop Extras: In-office Depop Shop (free!), packing station with free delivery.
• Special milestones celebrated with gifts and rewards.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.

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