Dex
Site Lead, Data & ML (up to £240k)
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The role
This is a profitable, bootstrapped platform rewarding 80 million users globally. They're one of Europe's fastest-growing companies, building out their first dedicated data and ML presence in London.
You'll lead that function from day one, growing a team from a single hire to ten over the next year. This isn't a distant management role: you'll stay a genuine technical contributor, reviewing designs and code, joining model reviews, and staying in the problems. The work is applied and commercial: reward optimisation, real-time personalisation, offer ranking. You're building the ground the team will stand on, not just tuning something that already runs.
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The work
- Lead the London data and ML function, defining its roadmap and technical strategy.
- Drive applied ML initiatives across reward optimisation, real-time personalisation, and offer ranking.
- Build and scale a high-ownership team from scratch, setting the technical bar and interview process.
- Contribute technically through design reviews, code reviews, and model reviews.
- Translate business priorities into technical plans, ensuring direct impact on company-level outcomes.
What You Bring
- Strong individual contributor background at senior, staff, or principal level; you want to keep building.
- End-to-end ownership of an applied-ML domain: recommendation, ranking, marketplaces, adtech, or similar.
- Clear examples of business outcomes your technical work directly drove.
- Comfort defining solutions in ambiguous environments, rather than following existing playbooks.
- Experience hiring, coaching, and setting the technical bar for a small, high-ownership team.
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Why apply through Dex
This is a rare, foundational leadership role in a rapidly scaling, profitable business. Opportunities like this are often oversubscribed or hard to find. Apply through Dex to cut through the noise, get a full brief on the company and role, and skip the cold application process.
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