Data Scientist (Auction Knowledge)

Help drive innovation of an online auction as a Data Scientist

How do you make our customers happy?

Advertising within bol strives to present customers with maximally relevant ads. This is great for our 13 million customers as well as for our advertisers, because relevance is the primary driver of conversion, particularly in a setting that displays ads during the shopping experience. Matching what customers want or are looking for with partner ads is our ultimate ambition. As a member of bol’s largest innovation club, you answered with a resounding ‘yes!’, because dreaming big and realizing those dreams is what we do. We already have all the right tools, and we know that you can help us get even more out of them.

What you do as Data Scientist (Auction Knowledge)

Our Advertising teams are home to ambitious product owners, data analysts/designers, software engineers, machine learning engineers, and other data scientists, who all work together to maximize our advertising potential for customers and advertisers. You help drive innovation by leveraging your intricate domain knowledge of online auctions to focus on the important aspects of the auction and applying your ‘leaving-no-stone-unturned’ attitude as a data expert to come up with solid improvements. You effectively act as a data analyst or data scientist, with your efforts guided by a strong understanding of the domain.

This role requires a hands-on, collaborative, and experimental mindset, grounded in extensive domain expertise, to build the best possible data science solutions based on tested, validated, and refined improvements. You enjoy working in a setting where you have a large degree of autonomy in deciding where you focus your efforts and pursue projects that help the service the most.

As Data Scientist (Auction Knowledge), you are well versed in:

• Bidding
• Pricing
• Ranking
• Determining relevancy

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

• Your track record breathes data Yes, if you bring 3+ years of domain expertise and data experience to the table, preferably in ‘data-driven, personalized’ solutions and technical realizations
• You love lab settings Yes, if you love to experiment and innovate and can get colleagues on board for the ride
• You go from concept to realization Yes, if translating complex questions into the technical realization of scalable models and algorithms is totally your cup of Earl Gray
• You’re not into tooling No, if SQL / Python / Machine Learning is terra incognita
• You’re a soloist No, if you’ve never worked with software engineers and don’t look forward to the experience
• You don’t deviate from the path No, if your natural inclination is to stay on the beaten path: it might be boring, but it feels ever so secure

This is where you’ll work

You’ll land in the Advertising tech fleet, one of our engineering departments that focuses on the different Advertising products. We develop innovations and technical tools to present advertisers with limitless opportunities to showcase their products/services on our platform. We zoom in on strategic topics, such as sponsored products and display advertising, as well as on audiences and the data we can make available to our advertisers.

You help drive innovation of an online auction using large amounts of customer, product, and advertiser data, using a collaborative and experiment-oriented mindset.

Perks of having a blue heart

Flexible working

We bring the best of both worlds together by working 50% at the office and 50% at home. This way, we find a balance between organisational and individual needs.

The culture and the office

Our colleagues work hard to make the daily lives of our customers easier and more fun. But of course, we do this in an inspiring and creative environment!

Your pension

Bol pays part of the basic pension and any top-up scheme.