Data Scientist

Data Scientist

About Rent the Runway 

Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet. RTR’s mission has remained the same since its founding: powering women to feel their best every day. Through RTR, customers can subscribe, rent items a-la-carte and shop resale from hundreds of designer brands. The Closet in the Cloud offers a wide assortment of millions of items for every occasion, from evening wear and accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods and kidswear. RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine, which connects deeply engaged customers and differentiated brand partners on a powerful platform built around its brand, data, logistics and technology. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list four times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100: Most Influential People in the World” and as one of People Magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”

Galway Office 

Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019.  Based in the historic Claddagh area of the city, the growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway’s success and continued growth. 

The Galway office is Rent the Runway’s first international office outside the US and enables the company to significantly expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprint. Rent The Runway’s Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles and career paths in Technology.

About the role:

Data Scientists at Rent the Runway focus on creating data products that have tangible effects on our customer experience and internal operations. You will own projects end to end, from framing which questions and products to tackle, through collecting information from our complex data ecosystem, transforming that data into insights that can impact our business, and integrating the product into our network of services in collaboration with our engineering team.

Your work will impact all parts of our business: what inventory assortment should we buy, how can we predict if a garment will fit a customer before they try it on, how do you price clothing rentals, what are the key drivers of customer churn, how can you build a personalised onboarding experience, how do we predict demand in the future, how can we make customer service better by serving the right information at the right time, how should we allocate items between warehouses and stores, etc. 

What you’ll do;

You are excited about this role because you will:

• Work on a team of peers in an environment that will keep you constantly challenged and learning new things every day.
• Develop and deploy performant algorithms powering applications that are core to our business and success.
• Collaborate closely in an equal partnership with our business, product and engineering teams.
• Have a significant voice both in what you work on and how the work is carried out.

About you:

We are excited about you joining our team because you have:

• A strong academic background in a quantitative field, for example mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, statistics, economics, etc.
• Experience building software or data products, particularly in Python, our go-to language
• Passion for data and its ability to drive serious business impact.
• An innate curiosity and bias to action.
• Experience tackling vague problems, transforming unframed problems into algorithmic solutions.
• Great communication skills.

Benefits:

At Rent the Runway, we’re committed to the happiness and wellbeing of our employees, and aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave – every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family.
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program  – because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service – unplug, recharge, and have some fun.
• Competitive Stakeholder Pension – taking care of your future. 
• Comprehensive health, dental care and dependents care from day 1 of employment – Your health comes first and we’ve got you covered. 
• Company wide events and outings – our team spirit is no joke – we know how to have fun!
• Hybrid Work – This a hybrid role based in our Galway, Ireland office. Employees have the option to work remotely 2-3 days per week.

Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee on any legally-recognised basis, including, but not limited to: gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community.

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