Staff Machine Learning Scientist (Recommendations)

The Recommendations team builds models that power discovery at Depop, helping millions of users find items that they will love. As a Staff Machine Learning Scientist, you'll set the technical vision for our next-generation recommendation models, lead high-impact initiatives, and mentor others to drive innovation at scale.

Responsibilities

You will:

• Lead the design and deployment of advanced recommendation systems, encompassing encoder-based architectures, vector representations and large-scale retrieval.
• Mentor, coach, and set technical direction within the Recommendations team, helping others grow and innovate.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (product, engineering, data) to define problems, translate them into scalable solutions, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of ML projects: from ideation, data acquisition, feature engineering, training, and evaluation to de...