Senior Data Scientist - Strategic Finance
Relay is fundamentally reshaping how goods move in an online era. Backed by Europe’s largest-ever logistics Series A ($35M), led by deep-tech investors Plural (whose portfolio spans fusion energy and space exploration), Relay is scaling faster than 99.98% of venture-backed startups. We're assembling the most talent-dense team the logistics industry has ever seen
Relay’s Mission is to free commerce from friction. Today, high delivery costs act as a hidden tax on e-commerce, quietly shaping what can be sold online and limiting who can participate. We envision a world where more goods move more freely between more people, making the online shopping experience seamless and accessible to everyone.
THE TEAM
• ~110 people, more than half in engineering, product and data
• 45+ advanced degrees across computer science, mathematics and operations research
• Thousands of data points captured, calculated, analysed and predicted for every single parcel we handle
• An intellectually vibrant culture of first‑principles thinking, tight feedback loops and relentless experimentation
SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST - STRATEGIC FINANCE
The Opportunity
Relay's network is scaling fast. The decisions that shape that growth, where to expand, how to price, where to invest, depend on models that can simulate how the network actually behaves and how it will develop as density, geography, and operating models change. Those models need to be faster, more dynamic, and more modular than what exists today. This role exists to build them.
As a Senior Data Scientist, Strategic Finance, you will own the simulation of Relay's network. You will build and maintain a modular collection of models that captures how our unit economics work end-to-end, from first-mile collection through sortation, middle-mile, and last-mile delivery. When the business asks "what happens to our cost per parcel if we enter a new region, change a service type, or shift our first-mile operating model?", your system answers that...