Senior/Lead Data Scientist (Search & Recommendation)

Why LINE MAN Wongnai

LINE MAN Wongnai is one of Thailand's fastest-growing technology companies, operating three core business groups: On-demand Services under the LINE MAN brand, the leader in food delivery, mart delivery, messenger, transportation, and telepharmacy; Merchant Digital Solutions under the Wongnai brand, the leading provider of POS and digital solutions for merchant management, beauty, and wellness clinics; and Pay & Financial Services under the LINE Pay brand, an integrated online and offline payment platform.

As a data and AI-driven company, our mission is to Digitalize Everyday Life Services, guided by our core values: Innovate Faster, Go Deeper, and Respect Everyone. Together, we power a digital ecosystem that serves 10 million users, 520,000 active online and offline merchants, and over 290,000 active riders and drivers nationwide.

Join us, and you'll work alongside talented, driven people who take real ownership from day one. Here, your work won't just move a project forward, it'll shape how millions of people live every day.

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to oversee the research, working in a fast-paced environment, you will bring your expertise and skills to tackle the challenges that impact millions of people on our journey to become the No.1 food platform in Thailand.

What you’ll Do:

• Improve Recommendation Services
  • Building deep knowledge around LINE MAN Wongnai's business related to recommendation services
  • Building on, developing, and enhancing the architecture of the interconnected network of predictive and analytic data models
  • Building scalable prototypes of data tools for testing and proof-of-concept
• Data and Analytics
  • Analyzing results of experiments with rigorous statistical methods to conclude and suggest strategies to improve the business of LMWN
  • Performing data enrichment and profiling through inferential statistics based on multi-dimensional customer and merchant behavioural data
  • Identifying growth opportunities by analyzing LINE MAN Wongnai's vast amounts of data, develop models that can be used for optimization to ensure platform's growth
• Technology
  • Researching and building new technological to enhance recommendation capabilities for LMWN
  • Knowledge in natural language processing, information retrieval domain, or knowledge graph is a plus

What you’ll Need:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analytics, or related fields
• 3-7 years of experience in data science, statistical or mathematical research, operations research, or complex data modeling and analytics
• Evidence of previous projects (personal or work-related) with complex analytics and statistical/machine learning techniques using R/Python
• Strong SQL skills.
• Good understanding of statistics, computer science, and data, and the ability to implement this understanding in complex business situations.
• A hacker’s mindset – the ability to build simple but clever and elegant solutions to new problems within significant resource, operational and time constraints
• Familiarity with the mathematics underpinning analytics (linear programming, linear algebra, convex optimisations, etc.) is a plus
• Great communication skills, organization skills, multitasking and teamwork
• A good command of English and Thai