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Data Scientist

Qogita

Amsterdam
Full-time
2-5 years experience
Hybrid

€60,000 - €90,000 per year

Key Skills

Python
SQL
Machine Learning
Statistical Modelling
Predictive Modelling
Data Science
MLOps
Experimentation
A/B Testing
Pricing Strategy
Demand Forecasting
Deep Learning
Causal Inference
LLMs
Data Analysis
Production Monitoring

Job Description

Wholesale is a $50 trillion market still working the way it did in 1950. 90% of transactions happen offline, over calls, catalogues and trade shows, and a product passes through four or five layers of distributors and wholesalers before it reaches a store, with every party deciding on a fraction of the picture. By the time it hits the shelf, it costs roughly 40% more than the maker charged. That inefficiency tax runs into the trillions, and everyone pays it every time they buy anything.

Qogita is building the operating system that replaces that chain: a single order book connecting the global market, the rails to move goods across borders, and a self-learning system that does every job once, against real-time data about the whole market. That puts data science at the core of the product. Forecasting reads what is actually selling in every market as it sells, a buyer's basket is assembled from every available seller and split across the optimal combination, and every trade writes a record that sharpens the next price, allocation and route. It is a hard problem, spanning physical goods, thirty national regimes in Europe alone and buyers who are increasingly agents, and it is already working: 95% of transactions involve no human touch, and the business is doubling every year.

The role
You're a data scientist with strong quantitative and ML chops who can move between classical modelling, experimentation, and modern applied ML (including LLMs where they're the right tool). You'll own end-to-end data science work across Qogita's wholesale marketplace: framing ambiguous commercial problems, building models that ship, and keeping them healthy in production. The Data Science team partners with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Commercial to build the intelligence layer behind pricing, matching, demand, and product discovery.
  • Build and deliver data science solutions across the stack: predictive models, ranking, demand forecasting, segmentation, pricing, experimentation, and LLM-powered features, depending on where the business need is greatest
  • Take ownership of business-critical ML systems end-to-end: problem framing, model design, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance in production
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into tractable ML or statistical problems with clear success criteria, working closely with Product and Commercial
  • Apply quantitative methods (regression, causal inference, classical ML, and deep learning where useful) to pricing, demand, liquidity, supplier matching, catalogue enrichment, and related marketplace problems
  • Design and analyse experiments and A/B tests, owning statistical validity and turning results into recommendations teams can act on
  • Collaborate with Engineers to ship models via reproducible MLOps workflows: experiment tracking, model serving, alerting, and production monitoring
  • Communicate model choices, limitations, and trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
  • 3+ years as a data scientist, applied ML engineer, or quantitative analyst, with meaningful exposure across ML methods and statistical modelling
  • A track record of owning models in production, not just building them: maintaining, monitoring, and iterating as live infrastructure
  • Solid grounding in ML and stats fundamentals: probability, supervised and unsupervised learning, and measurement/validation discipline
  • Strong Python and SQL; comfortable with large transactional datasets and common DS/ML libraries (e.g. pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch or similar)
  • Experience collaborating on MLOps-style workflows (experiment tracking, serving, monitoring) and shipping with engineers
  • Able to communicate uncertainty and model limitations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Bachelor's or Master's in a quantitative field (Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Mathematics, CS, or related), or equivalent experience

Nice to have (depth in one or more)
  • Pricing and market economics: price theory, buyer behaviour, demand estimation, causal inference, experimentation with real commercial stakes
  • Production LLM systems: RAG, evaluation frameworks, prompt/fine-tuning trade-offs, transformers and major model families, LangChain or similar
  • Marketplace or B2B dynamics; AWS/GCP/Azure ML infra; Airflow, Docker, dbt, Snowflake, Lightdash or similar
  • Base salary: €60,000 to €90,000 (Amsterdam) / £60,000 to £90,000 (London) depending on experience
  • 26 days of annual leave, plus 4 additional personal days
  • Company performance-based bonus
  • Attractive equity package
  • Pension contributions
  • Annual learning & development budget
  • Office-led culture with hybrid flexibility
  • Dog-friendly offices
  • Home-office setup package
  • Office socials and annual company-wide offsite

Who we are
Qogita [Ko-gi-ta] is a fast-growing European startup building the operating system for modern wholesale. Founded in early 2021, we now operate globally.
  • Offices in Amsterdam and London, where the team comes together in person
  • A team of 170+ people from 66 nationalities
  • Backed by Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Dawn Capital and LocalGlobe

Core Responsibilities

You will own end-to-end data science solutions, including predictive models, demand forecasting, and pricing strategies within a wholesale marketplace. This involves framing ambiguous business problems, building scalable models, and maintaining them in a production environment.

Requirements

Candidates must have 3+ years of experience in data science or applied machine learning with strong proficiency in Python and SQL. A bachelor's or master's degree in a quantitative field is required, along with a proven track record of managing ML systems in production.

Benefits

  • Annual leave
  • Personal days
  • Performance-based bonus
  • Equity package
  • Pension contributions
  • Learning & development budget
  • Hybrid flexibility
  • Dog-friendly offices
  • Home-office setup package
  • Office socials
  • Annual company-wide offsite

About Qogita

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet

Company size: 51-200 employees

Qogita [Ko-gi-ta] is on a mission to make global trade radically efficient by building the operating system for modern wholesale. Wholesale is a €50 trillion market still largely run through phone calls, catalogues and trade shows. Behind every product sits a fragmented chain of sourcing, trading and logistics that makes wholesale slower, more complex and expensive than it should be. Qogita is changing this by connecting the global market into a single order book, building the rails to move products across borders efficiently, and providing the intelligence to help businesses know what to stock, what it’s worth and where it should go. We operate across health and beauty in 30+ European markets, with ambitions to reach every category, everywhere. Backed by Accel, Bessemer, Dawn and LocalGlobe, we’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing B2B companies. We’re an ambitious, pragmatic and highly collaborative team, united by a desire to reshape one of the world’s biggest markets.

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