Senior Data Scientist
London
Deployment /
Full-time /
On-site
WovenLight is creating a new category of investment firm. We combine traditional private equity investing with deep capabilities in AI and machine learning - in order to drive outsized value creation at our portfolio companies.
We do this as an “active co-sponsor”, co-underwriting deals with top-tier Private Equity firms and deploying our own in-house team of data scientists, engineers, and strategists to execute value creation projects at the companies we invest in. Investing across North America and Europe and across sectors, we focus on companies where there is untapped potential from ML/AI/data science.
During H1 2025, WovenLight has:
- Executed on our first two deals - partnering with leading PE firms to co-sponsor investments. For more details, please see our current portfolio at https://www.wovenlight.com/portfolio
- Entered into a strategic partnership with leading European PE firm – Altor. Through this partnership, WovenLight acts as an AI transformation partner to Altor and its portfolio companies. For more details, please see https://www.wovenlight.com/perspectives/altor-advances-ai-leadership-through-a-strategic-partnership-with-wovenlight
To execute our mission we are building an integrated team of world class data, investment, technology and operations professionals.
As a WovenLight Senior Data Scientist you will drive the development and deployment of analytics models at WovenLight clients. Examples of projects you would be involved in include:- optimisation modelling to improve manufacturing throughput, predictive modelling to anticipate/avoid asset downtime, predicting and reducing customer churn, identifying next best action for sales agents, geospatial modelling to improve store footprint; and many more.
This work on these projects will cover all aspects of the model lifecycle - understanding business problems and users, data exploration, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model deployment, model evaluation, model maintenance etc.
You should have strong communication skills and a collaborative nature - in order to ensure that highly technical data science work drives real world impact.
You must be passionate about learning and improving ways of working at WovenLight. To this end you will collaborate with our product engineering group to build analytics product technology that can help us deliver impact faste and more efficiently.
The successful candidate should have the following attributes:
- Passion and expertise applying data science methods to deliver commercial impact (4+ years)
- Strong communication skills - able to explain complex analytical concepts to people from other fields
- Bachelor’s degree (at least 2:1) or higher in a quantitative subject
- Fluent in Python (Pandas, Numpy, Sci-Kit) or other languages
Our core team is based in London. Interviews for this role will be conducted via a combination of phone, video-conference and in person.
WovenLight is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
