Founding Data Scientist

This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).

We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 70 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.

Founding Data Scientist

We're looking for a Founding Data Scientist to work directly with leadership on zero-to-one measurement and growth problems. This is not a role for maintaining existing systems — it's for someone who can take an ambiguous, high-stakes question and build the data infrastructure to answer it reliably, then own what comes next.

We value people who combine measurement rigour with builder instincts: someone equally comfortable designing a causal experiment and shipping the pipeline that operationalises its output.

What You'll Do

- Design and own our incrementality testing framework across marketing, product, and user incentives — from initial justification through to execution and impact measurement.
- Build and maintain the measurement stack underpinning these decisions: attribution models, data pipelines, and opportunity prioritisation.
- Lead experimentation strategy across growth and product: design, run, and interpret experiments with a strong focus on causal validity, not just statistical significance.
- Take full ownership of data products and pipelines end-to-end — scoping, architecture, implementation, rollout.
- Close collaboration with C-level and partnering with engineering and business stakeholders to integrate measurement outputs into live operational decisions.
- Establish frameworks and practises so that team can build on as we scale.

What You Need

- Deep expertise applying learnings from causal inference and experimental design on practise, in business applications
- Hands-on experience building and operationalising attribution model in a real business context — not just running models, but making them useful.
- Proven zero-to-one experience: ambiguous problem, built the infrastructure, shipped something production-ready.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL; GCP preferred; comfortable with modern data stack tools (dbt).
- Experience with programmatic advertising, ML pricing, mobile measurement — MMPs, probabilistic attribution, or similar — is a strong plus.

You Are

- A builder with a strong ownership mindset — you don't wait for a spec.
- Rigorous but pragmatic: the stats matter, but the business question matters more.
- Someone who, if they have to debug something twice, automates it.
- A clear communicator — you can translate model outputs into decisions that non-technical stakeholders can act on.

Why Almedia?

- Own Our Growth: Competitive package with meaningful equity.
- High Impact: Work on company-defining projects, not tickets in a queue.
- Scale With Almedia: Join a profitable, high-growth startup early.
- Great Environment: Central Berlin office, transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.

We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.