Lead Data Scientist

About the role

Fever, a tech platform for culture and live entertainment, is looking for an experienced Lead Data Scientist in Madrid. The role takes ownership of critical business areas such as product optimization, personalization or marketing, leads a small collaborative team and combines strong technical skills with the ability to work across diverse teams. It is a highly cross-functional position that shapes key business and product decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Own strategic data science projects from exploration to deployment
• Guide, mentor and support a small team of Data Scientists
• Design and build models for personalization, forecasting, user behavior analysis and marketing efficiency
• Work with Product, Engineering, Marketing and other teams to turn data insights into results
• Prioritize projects by value and feasibility, keeping a strong product and user focus
• Help with hiring, onboarding and building an inclusive team culture
• Partner with senior leaders on strategic planning for the Data function

Required profile

• Strong foundations in statistics, machine learning and mathematics (Master's or PhD a plus)
• Confident exploring data, designing models and evaluating their performance
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and helping teams adapt to new information
• Experience leading data science projects
• Enjoys mentoring others and fostering collaboration

Required skills

• SQL
• Python-based tools such as Pandas, NumPy and Scikit-learn
• Clean, reproducible code and quick prototyping
• Nice to have: recommendation systems, Bayesian modeling, causal inference, PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow, experimentation platforms and production ML pipelines

What we offer

• Performance-linked bonus and stock options
• 40% discount on Fever events and experiences
• Flexible hybrid model
• Health insurance and flexible compensation via Cobee
• English classes and Gympass membership
• Salary advance via Payflow