Head of Data Science

We’re hiring a Head of Data Science 🚀

Current Product Status

Our AI-powered retail discovery platform is now live on the App Store following beta testing with 2,000+ users. Since full launch just a few weeks ago, we’ve grown to ~1,000 active users.

The platform enables two powerful discovery methods:

• Natural language search (describe what you’re looking for)

• Visual search (upload an image to find similar items)

As we scale, visual search is our top product priority.

We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader who can deliver across three core areas within six months:

  1. Support and optimize the existing system
  2. Drive roadmap feature development
  3. Build and implement production-ready AI systems

Primary Requirement: Deep expertise in computer vision

Secondary but essential: Conversational AI + data transformation

This is not a narrow research role. We need someone with broad AI fluency across:

• Generative AI

• Conversational AI

• LLaMA and large model ecosystems

• Data transformation & data engineering

• Production ML systems

We work with:

• Structured & unstructured retail data

• Labeled image datasets

• Unlabeled conversational history (feedback integration is on our roadmap)

You must be comfortable with:

• AWS, Python, CI/CD, Terraform

• Production ML pipelines

• Embeddings, transfer learning, teacher-student learning

• Large vision models and optimization for scale

Red flags:

• Generic “we’ll just improve the model” thinking

• Only knowing basic PyTorch without broader ecosystem knowledge

• No real-world deployment or scalability experience

Team Environment

• Data science team: 3 (

• Engineering team: 7

• Highly collaborative, execution-focused culture

We need someone who can mentor junior team members, guide architecture decisions, and ship.

If you’ve built and scaled real-world AI systems, not just research prototypes, please hit the apply button.

Job Details

Company
Propel
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
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