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Senior Data Scientist, Product Data
Impact.com
Posted 3 months agoCape Town, South Africa
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Engineering
Job Description
From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships.
Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate),
Creator (influencer), and
As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most.
Today, over 5,000 global brands, including
Walmart,
Uber,
Shopify,
Lenovo, L’Oréal, and
Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.
About the
Role
We're seeking a
Senior
Data
Scientist specializing in
Product
Data
Quality to join our
Cape
Town
Data
Science team.
In this role, you'll own the analytical and technical foundation of product data quality across our ecosystem—spanning catalog hygiene, transaction matching, classification modeling, deduplication, and global product identity.
You'll work across both the structured catalog universe and the messier, larger-scale sales transaction universe, building models and infrastructure that power search, recommendations, and business intelligence.
This is a high-impact role that demands both analytical depth and strong engineering capabilities: you'll take models from research to production, build scalable data pipelines, and create the monitoring infrastructure that makes our product data foundation trustworthy and continuously improving.
Your work will directly influence search relevance, recommendation quality, match rates, and reporting accuracy across the business.
Core Responsibilities Product classification & taxonomy modeling Develop, deploy, and maintain ML models for automated product categorization and taxonomy assignment across hierarchical category structures.
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Requirements
- Familiarity with production ML workflows (model versioning, monitoring, evaluation, retraining, A/B testing)
- Experience with data profiling, anomaly detection, and exploratory analysis at scale.
- Education: Bachelor's in a quantitative field (CS, Statistics, Math, Engineering, or similar); Master's/PhD preferred.
- Fam.
Responsibilities
- Build monitoring systems and dashboards to track data quality trends across retailers, categories, and time periods.
- Quantify the impact of GPID enrichment and matching improvements on search, deduplication, and reporting accuracy.
- Partner with external data providers and brands to improve GPID coverage and resolve identifier conflicts.
- Deduplication & entity resolution Identify product variants (size, co.
- Improve classification accuracy through feature engineering (text, attributes, embeddings), model iteration, and robust evaluation on both catalog and sales transaction data.
- Monitor production model performance; identify and remediate misclassification patterns that impact search, recommendations, and reporting.
- Collaborate with category experts and Product teams to refine taxonomy definitions, handle edge cases, and adapt to new product types.
- Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform.
- Catalog & sales universe data quality Conduct deep-dive analyses into catalog completeness, consistency, and correctness across reta
Benefits
- At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work.
- That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.
- Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge.
- Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority.
- We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
- Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning.
- Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
How to Apply
Apply via the Impact.com careers portal.
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