Life at Elvie – Meaningful work. Exceptional people
We develop smarter technology for women and are committed to building extraordinary products that improve women’s lives.It’s a fascinating and challenging area to be addressing as it requires all our employees to stretch themselves and solve problems that no-one’s tackled before. That’s why we’re looking for skilled, curious individuals who want to grow by surrounding themselves with a diverse array of outstanding people.
Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. It took the wellness industry by storm and is now available via the NHS Supply Chain. Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious Red Dot Award and an IDA Design Award.
Our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump has received international praise, including being listed as one of Times 100 best inventions in 2019 and ‘wearable design of the design of the year’ at the Dezeen Awards.
As a business, Elvie has received more than 30 awards, including being named as one of 15 startups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times, ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in the UK by SyndicateRoom in 2019. Tania Boler has recently been rated as the 8th most influential person shaping british technology in 2019 by Business Insider and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B from IPGL, Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures, bringing the total raised thus far to over $50 million. Our Series B represented the largest ever fundraise in Femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution.
What does it mean to work at Elvie?
We work collaboratively at the forefront of the growing Femtech industry with our innovative tech-focused products. You are surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them, and are passionate about our mission. We’re driven by the fulfilment of solving hard problems are constantly considering our users and the positive impact we can have on their health and wellbeing.
We’re deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive.
- We make an impact – we are mission driven and not afraid to break boundaries. We relentlessly focus on going the extra mile to solve problems
- We are fearless innovators – we are passionate, curious and data-driven. We continuously embrace change and innovation
- We are in it together – we fail and learn fast, always as one team, and have fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences
Who You Are:
We are looking for a full-time Senior Data Scientist to join our award winning team. We collect sensor data from our hardware devices via accompanying smart-phones apps, and also maintain comprehensive databases of user interactions and behaviour regarding our products. We develop detection models for firmware and mobile applications, to provide the user with valuable insight in real-time, even if they aren’t connected to the internet, and support the work of the wider team by providing actionable insight on user behaviour. As a senior data scientist embedded in the team in the new Bristol office, you will have a significant impact on the development of new and existing products.
- You’re a data scientist with at least 5 years of combined experience in machine learning, statistics, data analysis, programming, or applied research in related fields with at least 2 years of commercial experience
- You have worked with time-series data collected using physical sensors
- You have worked with predictive analytics, classification, segmentation and detection algorithms
- You are skilled at coding in Python
- You understand how important effective visualisation is
- You can design experiments to test your hypotheses
- You can analyse experimental results to glean important insights, and develop new hypotheses to test
- The idea of working within a successful, high-growth start up in a fast-paced role excites you
What You Will Do:
Developing cutting edge solutions to difficult problems
- Have a significant impact on the research direction of the data science team and contribute to developing pipelines and process
- Develop novel detection algorithms using appropriate machine learning and signal processing techniques
- Design, perform, and analyse physical experiments using the sensors employed in Elvie products, with a focus on repeatability, accuracy and replication of the use of the product in the wild
- Import, clean and process data from a variety of sources (in-app user behavior, multiple types of physical sensor, user surveys, etc.) using Python
- Practise critical thinking and understand the flaws and limitations to the experiments and analysis performed by yourself and others
Educating, explaining and supporting
- Work collaboratively within the growing data science team on challenging technical projects
- Provide nuanced and detailed analysis of data, to both technical and non-technical people to explain outcomes and facilitate decision making
Requirements:
- 5 years of combined applied research / commercial experience
- An MSci/PhD in a mathematical field or comparable
- You can design an experiment, collect and rigorously analyse data, and think critically about the results
- A strong mathematical background, including linear algebra, calculus and statistics, time series analysis and signal processing
- Experience with machine learning techniques and training best practice
- Advanced coding skills in Python, with a focus on the numeric and scientific libraries
- Solid understanding and experience of unit testing
- Understanding of best practices surrounding Python package development and maintenance
- You understand and can produce effective visualization (using matplotlib, seaborn, plotly)
- Advanced knowledge of SQL
- You have excellent communication skills, both scientific and non-technical with the ability to write reports, present, and discuss results
- Experience of versioning code with Git, and data and pipelines with tools such as DVC or Pachyderm
- Comfortable on command line interface (desirable)
- Experience of firmware development (desirable)
- Exposure to cloud computing environments (desirable)
Note: you must have the right to work in the UK to apply for this role
Benefits:
We are looking after you. As well as the chance to develop products with real work impact and working with dedicated and passionate colleagues, our benefits have flexibility and wellbeing in mind with:
- Great work environment – regular company socials, free daily snacks
- Flexible work environment built on trust and autonomy
- Enjoy employee / friends & family discounts on Elvie products
- Generous employee referral program
- Cycle Scheme & Tech Scheme
- A tax-efficient group pension scheme with SmartPension
- Life Insurance with Yulife
- Medical, Dental & Optical cash-plan with WPA
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family
- YuLife Well-being app & access to SmartHealth app with unlimited GP appointments for you and your family, plus various well-being initiatives throughout the year
Why you should join us
Elvie is at the crest of a wave! Founded by women’s health expert Tania Boler and tech entrepreneur Alex Asseily, Elvie is a collection of bright and motivated team members working across the business to shape the emerging femtech industry.
We are all passionate about creating disruptive products that address the challenges that matter most to women and dismantling the taboo around women’s bodies. Here, you can be part of a business and brand that has a positive and meaningful impact on the world, all while learning a great deal and having fun.