Responsibilities:

Work closely with business teams to understand the business objective and choose the right problem statements to prioritize.
Lead/design and help teams run data-backed experiments to improve process efficiency and create systems to capture them.
Manage expectations and requirements from functional leaders in Marketing, Procurement, assortment strategy, and operations to build and execute data-driven growth strategies.
Wear the Zepto badge with pride. We are looking for owners - not employees.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's/Masters's in Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, or Statistics from a reputed institute.
5-10 years of experience in a relevant role.
Ability to structure real-life nontrivial problems into statistical or ML problems as per need.
Experience with a multitude of different approaches and concepts to the same set of problems.
Maintain industry standards for serving and code infrastructure while not compromising on speed in a cost-efficient manner.
Ability to manage multiple tracks of requests and projects along with leading the team in the right direction.
Leads internal DS initiatives to push the envelope in terms of process, technology, tools, etc.
Excellent scripting skills in R/Python with an understanding of version control and cloud ecosystem.
Experience with building and writing scalable software systems.
Ability to write clean and readable code.
Clear communication and explanations wherever deemed fit.
Basic SQL with the ability to fetch, and transform data tables.
Strong understanding of statistical/control system techniques and methods such as distributions (poisson, binomial), data intricacies (independent, skewness, kurtosis etc), closed loop system design etc.
People with an endless curiosity and hunger to learn with an owner's mindset.
Structured thinking to solve real-world problems under severe constraints.
Comfort with a fast-paced unstructured environment.
Excellent partnership and collaboration skills with the ability to work cross.