At a Glance
- Tasks: Transform data into impactful product features and enhance customer experiences.
- Company: Fast-scaling marketplace business focused on data and AI-driven decision-making.
- Benefits: 25 days holiday, private healthcare, pension contribution, and learning support.
- Other info: Enjoy a dog-friendly office, wellbeing days, and an active social calendar.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team to shape products with data and AI while making a real impact.
- Qualifications: Strong data experience, SQL, Python or R skills, and a passion for product impact.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
We’re supporting a fast-scaling marketplace business that is investing heavily in data, AI and product-led decision-making. This is a brilliant role for a senior data professional who wants to sit closer to product, customers and commercial outcomes, rather than operate as a reporting function. You’ll be embedded in a product/platform squad, working alongside Product Managers, Engineers and Designers to turn data into better customer experiences, sharper commercial decisions and data-powered product features. The role is full-stack in direction, but you do not need to be world-class across everything from day one. You might be an analyst who wants to build more, or a data scientist who wants to get closer to product and business impact. The key is curiosity, strong fundamentals and the appetite to keep moving across analytics, data science and data engineering.
What you’ll be doing:
- Acting as the data voice inside a product squad
- Analysing customer journeys, friction points, retention drivers and feature opportunities
- Connecting product work to commercial outcomes such as conversion, retention and margin
- Defining success metrics with Product and tracking feature performance
- Building fast POCs to show how data and AI can improve the customer experience
- Developing data-driven product features and data products
- Running A/B tests, holdouts, sample sizing and post-test analysis
- Owning certified metrics and semantic layer thinking for your squad’s domain
- Using LLMs and AI tools to speed up analysis, prototype ideas and support AI-augmented features
- Turning technical work into clear recommendations for stakeholders
Recent projects in the wider team have included recommendation engines, experimentation, natural language search, image analysis, customer intent scoring and AI-enabled product discovery.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Strong experience in a hands-on data role, ideally in e-commerce, marketplace, retail, consumer tech or product-led environments
- Strong SQL and working Python or R
- Good statistical foundations, including hypothesis testing, sample sizing and A/B testing
- Experience turning data into decisions, not just dashboards
- Product sense and commercial awareness
- Comfort working with modern data tooling, cloud warehouses and dashboarding principles
- An interest in applied AI, LLMs and how data can shape better customer experiences
- Strong stakeholder communication and storytelling skills
It would be a bonus if you have:
- Experience working as the data expert in an Agile product squad
- Exposure to semantic layers, certified metrics or metrics governance
- Experience prototyping data-driven product features
- Familiarity with AI evaluation, guardrails or non-deterministic model outputs
- A quantitative degree or equivalent technical background
This would suit someone who enjoys being close to the customer and the product, wants to use data to shape what gets built, and is excited by the direction data roles are moving in as AI becomes more embedded in day-to-day decision-making.
Benefits include:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing day
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Private healthcare
- EAP and employee discounts
- Learning and development support
- Volunteer days
- Dog-friendly office and active social calendar
Senior Decision Scientist in Eastbourne employer: Burns Sheehan
Join a dynamic and fast-scaling marketplace business in Brighton, where your role as a Senior Decision Scientist will place you at the heart of product innovation and customer experience enhancement. With a strong emphasis on employee wellbeing, professional development, and a collaborative work culture, you'll enjoy 25 days of holiday, private healthcare, and a dog-friendly office environment. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to make a meaningful impact while working alongside passionate professionals in a supportive and engaging atmosphere.
