Applied Scientist (Marketplace)

We started as the place to find a trusted trade. Now, as we shape the future of home improvement, we're building the tech to transform that landscape for everyone - better products, smarter data, AI where it actually helps - so trades can spend less time on admin and consumers can find someone they trust, first time. That's Powering Great Work, and it's why every team here exists:

🔧 Trades spend less time on admin and more on winning work and growing their business

🏠 Homeowners get a trusted trade, first time, every time

🚀 We get to build products that change homes and lives across the country

As our next Applied Scientist, you'll help build the UK's go-to home improvement marketplace by making sure the numbers behind it are right. AI is doing more of the heavy lifting on analysis, and you'll be the human layer above it. You'll own the direction of your work, partner with data scientists on models and systems with real impact, and work closely with the C-suite on making the business more data-driven.

• A track record across diagnosing, analysing and acting: not just producing analysis, but finding the cause and driving the change that moved the outcome.
• Fluency with SQL, Python and core data concepts, so you can tell when an output is wrong before anyone else spots it.
• Experience designing experiments and turning statistical findings into commercial recommendations that hold up under scrutiny.
• A knack for explaining complex findings to non-technical audiences in a way that moves a decision.
• Experience in a marketplace, subscription or lead-generation business is a bonus.
• Experience with tools like Tableau or Looker is a bonus too.

(Don't self-select out because you don't tick every box. We'd rather meet you.)

What you get

💰 Competitive salary, annual bonus & equity scheme

🩺 Health, wellbeing and learning support

🚲 Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme, Cycle Scheme

🎂 Birthday/special day leave, buy & sell holiday scheme

❤️ 1 week's paid charity leave, and more

• Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
• 1st stage: interview with the hiring manager
• 2nd stage: interview made up of two speed rounds with stakeholders
• Final stage: panel interview, including a short analysis case study

Not this one? Stay close anyway. Join the Talent Community https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/checkatrade/form/register-interest and we'll ping you the second something better fits.

We’re Checkatrade – the UK’s leading platform for finding a tradesperson. With more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews, we help homeowners get jobs done right and help tradespeople grow their business.

We’re growing fast, with big plans to become the go-to brand for home improvements. If you care about great work, take pride in the details, and want to make an impact, you’ll fit right in.