8 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$234k - $291k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction and sequence major personalization investments across Babylist’s consumer experience.
- Build product recommendations across product pages, registry additions, and shared product models.
- Personalize the feed across products, editorial content, and social content.
- Improve personalized search by incorporating family context and coordinating retrieval and ranking approaches.
- Collaborate with the Addie AI registry assistant team to improve product recommendations.
- Take ambiguous business problems from concept through production models and own their measurable outcomes.
- Make modeling and architecture decisions spanning multiple product surfaces.
- Design offline and online evaluation for models before and after launch.
- Choose appropriately between rules, baselines, and advanced modeling approaches.
- Partner with product, design, and data teams and coach engineers across the organization.
Requirements
- Experience shipping recommendation and/or personalization systems to real users at scale in a consumer product.
- Demonstrated business impact from recommendation or personalization work.
- Expertise in recommender fundamentals including candidate generation, ranking, offline and online evaluation, cold-start solutions, and position and popularity bias.
- Fluency in the Python machine learning stack and experience owning models through deployment and monitoring.
- Experience contributing to application backend systems.
- Ability to work through ambiguous problems and make effort-versus-effectiveness tradeoffs in early-stage ML.
- Outcome-focused ability to connect model changes to user experience, registry adds, conversion, or revenue.
- Regular use of AI tools to improve engineering productivity and output.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical insurance and fully covered dental and vision insurance.
- 401(k) match.
- Generous paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, plus a gradual return-to-work program.
- Paid company-wide Winter Wonder Week at the end of the year.
- Remote-work stipend.
- Mental-health and wellness support.
- Remote-first work across the US and Canada, with company-wide gatherings twice a year.
- Three-round hiring process typically completed within two to three weeks, with faster processing available for candidates with tight timelines.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSDatadogdbtGitHub ActionsiOSKotlinKubernetesMLflowMySQLReactRuby on RailsSnowflakeSwiftTerraformTypeScript
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About Babylist
Babylist builds a universal baby registry, e-commerce shop, and parenting content platform for expecting and new families. It earns revenue from direct retail sales through the Babylist Shop and referral purchases at third‑party retailers via its registry tools and app. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, the privately held company serves millions of families and operates its own fulfillment centers and experiential showrooms.