Senior Data Scientist (m/f/d) with management responsibility part-time - remotely or Karlsruhe

At Knuddels, our goal is to make social networks truly social again - away from consuming content and towards real human closeness. At Knuddels everyone should find 3 important people for their real life. 100,000 members create millions of events every day.

Your task: Not only analyze this data, but also draw the right conclusions from it - and ensure that data-based insights reach the entire company and lead to concrete improvements. Why part-time? We know that there are great data science profiles who cannot or do not want to work full-time - be it because of family, further training, self-employment or simply their lifestyle.

For us, this is not a compromise, but a conscious decision: It's better to have the right person part-time than the wrong person full-time.Your tasksHands-on data analysis & data science: You analyze our complex data and draw valuable insights using data mining, clustering, forecasting or recommendation classification. You ensure the correctness of our data in the various systems. Enable data-driven decisions: You analyze our data, prepare the results in an understandable way and derive concrete strategic measures from them.

You work closely with product management, community management and management - not in an ivory tower, but as a sparring partner on an equal footing. You combine quantitative analysis with qualitative feedback from our community to enable informed decisions. and establish best practices such as code reviews and documentation.Hands-on data analysis & data science: You work operationally with our complex data and gain valuable insights using data mining, clustering, forecasting or recommendation classification. You ensure the correctness of our data in the various systems and establish best practices such as code reviews and documentation.Team leadership & data culture: Our data science area is changing - and you are helping to shape it.

You will take on the technical and disciplinary leadership of a small team, promote the development of your colleagues and further develop the area structurally. Together with the management, you define the long-term data strategy and establish a real data culture in the company.What do we offer you?Real part-time, not full-time light: Your workload is realistically calculated, not simply calculated down.Flexibility that adapts to your life: Up to 100% remote work, trust-based working hours and the option of 10 unpaid "flexi vacation days" in addition to 30 days of vacation.Real cohesion: We live an open, respectful and cooperative culture in which we support each other.Growth according to your ideas: Use 10% of your working time for further training and benefit from our coaching pool, in-house workshops and regular feedback.Focus on our own product (B2C): You see immediately how your contribution is received by our community and helps to bring people closer together.Excellent equipment: We provide you with excellent technical equipment. If you work completely remotely, we also subsidize a mobile air conditioning unit.

Office in a top location (Karlsruhe): With free breakfast buffet, freshly cooked lunch every day, fully air-conditioned and a huge roof terrace. We want to support your health: subsidy for the gym/sports club third bullet point, if we can only think of two :) Education: You have successfully completed a degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics or a comparable qualification. Business understanding: You can not only analyze data, but also explain it and convert it into practical use.

You recognize patterns, understand their business implications and think in terms of solutions for the product - not just algorithms.Communication skills: You communicate complex connections in an understandable way to non-technical people and appear confident - even when you have to question existing assumptions with data.Leadership potential: You have the desire to take on responsibility - whether as a mentor, in project management or through technical guidance. Formal leadership experience is a plus, but not a must. The crucial thing is that you want to motivate and develop a team.Analytical strength: You have a quick comprehension, work in a structured manner and enjoy analyzing large amounts of data - both structured and unstructured.AI mindset: You see AI (e.g.

LLMs, Copilots) as an integral part of modern work. You use appropriate tools routinely and have ideas on how we can use AI profitably for our data analyzes or the product.Tech stack: Strong knowledge of SQL and Python (including frameworks such as pandas, sklearn). Experience with statistical analyzes and databases as well as with Excel/Google Sheets to prepare and visualize results.

You have in-depth knowledge of machine learning (forecasting, clustering, categorization) and deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow).Language skills: Fluent German (at least C1) and knowledge of English are required.Nice-to-have: Knowledge of Java and Mixpanel.The specified salary range refers to a full-time position. The exact number of hours is flexible for us - we will clarify what suits you in a conversation.

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