Site Lead Data & ML
Role Summary
Join Almedia as a Site Lead for Data & ML in London, leading a growing team and shaping the future of marketing technology.
About the Organisation
Almedia runs Freecash, a rewards platform with ~80 million users, profitable since day one, and currently the #3 fastest-growing company in Europe. We're building out our first dedicated data/ML presence in London, and this is the seat that gets to shape it from the ground up.
This is a rare opportunity to build a team and technical culture from first principles, with real autonomy over how it grows and a direct line between your decisions and the company's results.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the London data/ML team's roadmap, translating business priorities (reward/payout optimisation, real-time personalisation, offer ranking) into a team structure and technical plan
- Stay close to the work, reviewing designs and code alongside your team, not just signing off on them
- Hire, coach, and grow a small, high-ownership team; shape the technical bar and interview process as you scale
- Partner directly with senior leadership to connect London's work to company-level outcomes
- Help establish London as a core part of Almedia's technical foundation from day one
Minimum Requirements
- Strong individual-contributor credentials at a senior/staff/principal level; you've built significant things yourself, and want to keep building alongside your team as you lead
- Deep experience owning a domain end-to-end, such as recommendation systems, marketplaces, adtech, pricing/uplift, or a comparably rigorous applied-ML domain
- Comfort with ambiguity and a flat structure; you enjoy defining how something should work, not just running a playbook that already exists
- A track record of connecting technical work directly to business outcomes you can point to
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility details are not explicitly stated.
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