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We change our customer’s decision-making and operations. We challenge traditional consulting by delivering software that optimize businesses of our clients, not presentations or spreadsheets. By commitment to the highest quality and customer success, we achieved continuous quarterly growth above 20% each. We serve our customers globally. We are not afraid of any time zone – from the US through all over Europe up to Hong Kong and Australia.

We already work with Fortune 500 companies, and we have an appetite for more. We contribute to the community and put energy and effort into improving our ecosystem.

Before you apply please read our code of conduct

By joining at this stage you get an opportunity to shape the company and our culture. You will lead the sales team, get new people on board and report directly to the board. Within the same day, you will close a deal for multiple Sprints to a Los Angeles based client and attend never-ending negotiations with others. This position requires both sales agility and long-term patience. You will have many challenges and opportunities to grow. We are not afraid of large investments, radical actions, and counter-intuitive decisions.

What will you do as the Head of Sales:

• Lead sales and customer success team. Coach and mentor team members.
• Lead negotiations and close deals with Fortune 500 companies
• Research, attend and speak at world’s most prestigious conferences (Las-Vegas, London, Seattle and other)
• Constantly review and improve our sales process
• Prepare and control monthly budget for the sales team for flights, meetings, workshops
• Cooperate closely with legal and marketing teams

Your must-haves:

• Experience in IT or consulting. Interest in Machine Learning and/or Decision Support Systems
• Proven record of successful negotiations with large enterprises
• Proven record of managing a sales team for at least 3 years
• Native or near-native English. Polish not required
• Be able to build long-lasting business relationships with clients
• Proactiveness
• Very good self-organization
• Highly skilled in presentations
• Familiar with modern technologies. Being up to date with progress and news in our domain
• Work on-site, Warsaw or Gdansk

Nice to have:

• Experience working abroad
• Experience working with OKRs
• Consulting mindset
• Network of people you want to get on board after you join
• Experience and/or knowledge of Finance, Insurance, Energy, Biotech or Retail

What we offer:

• PLN 10,000-20,000+ PLN gross (UoP) depending on your experience, skills, and network
• Stock option plan + bonuses
• Work with smart, good and committed people
• Big opportunity to grow and help grow others
• Transparency and impact to make changes in the organization
• Work on Macbook

Additional benefits:

• Office on Chmielna street (very center of Warsaw) and in Wrzeszcz in Gdańsk
• Opportunity to work both from Warsaw and Gdańsk offices
• Private healthcare (including a 50% discount for dental care) and Sport card
• Flat structure
• Flexible hours
• Fresh fruits every Tuesday
• Company retreat every year
• Foosball tournaments 🙂

FAQ

Work hours: Flexible – this is a results-oriented position. Occasionally we need to work during evenings, e.g. to meet with a US client.

Remote work: We work in the office by default, because we value being together, but it is normal to work remotely from time to time.

Employment type: permanent employment preferred.

Develop data-centric business apps for large global companies. Work from Warsaw or Gdańsk with clients from the US and Western Europe. Work on some of the most advanced R Shiny apps in the world in the leading company in this space.

We’re a young, dynamic, small (~15) team. We work with companies from various industries, providing end-to-end data science consulting: from developing vision, through machine learning models development, to visualization, models productionization, and applications that allow them to use their data to gain business advantage. Over the past 5 years we’ve become the most advanced team out there(at least that we know of!) providing development of applications in Shiny, the web framework for R. Shiny is gaining huge momentum nowadays, so we have our hands full – we need you!

Our culture is based on three values: trust, learning, and commitment. We often feel like a family. We are devoted to quality of what we deliver and success of our clients. We want to live in Poland and work on great projects with global companies, while maintaining good balance between work and life. We love the opportunity to learn not-widely-known facts about the world we live in thanks to working with companies in various industries and situations.

Tech lead in a project for us is a role, not a position, so in some projects it’ll be you leading them, and in others it’ll be someone else. Given your level of experience, you will be in this role for most of the time.

You’ll be working as a senior software engineer. You will be responsible for:

• leading software projects and teams, both from technical side and in defining with client what they really need and providing guidance to them
• desiging and developing high-quality, great looking data-centric applications. We work a lot in R and Shiny, and also in Python.
• guiding decisions made by the team working on a project, making sure we choose good solutions, challenging unfounded assumptions and working directly with client to discover what their true needs are,
• working with data scientists to make the models they build usable by people, e.g. in the form of an API,
• mentoring other software engineers,
• improving our development processes and practices, and how we work as a whole.

What will your work look like?

• You’ll join a team of software engineers and data scientists.
• You’ll be reporting directly to our CTO and getting mentoring from him.
• You’ll work in our office in center of Warsaw or in center of Gdańsk.
• You’ll work in a team of 2-5 people on one or two projects at a time. As a tech lead, you’ll be leading this team’s work.
• We work in an agile way (Scrum / Scrumban depending on the project). You’ll be collaborating with our scrum master Karolina to constantly improve how your team works.
• We encourage writing blogposts, preparing and giving public talks, working on internal projects, learning new skills, preparing a tech talk for the rest of the team — so you’ll be able spend part of your time on that.

What you need to know now:

• You should have great programming skills and be fluent in at least one programming language.
• You should have experience in building software systems and designing architecture.
• You should have a drive for high code quality, modern development practices and automated testing, and constant improvement of yourself and your team.
• You should have experience with web development and technologies: JavaScript (ideally with some modern frontend frameworks), HTML, CSS.
• You should be familiar with working on a version control system like Git, and you should like doing thorough code reviews (we work mainly on GitHub).
• You should feel comfortable speaking English — most of our clients are international, and a lot of internal communication is in English.

What you’ll need to learn when you join (if you know these already – awesome!)

• R programming language(going through http://adv-r.had.co.nz/, and familiarizing yourself with Tidyverse packages will be more than enough for the start)
• Shiny framework: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
• Python
• Docker
• Building solutions on Amazon Web Services
• Deployment automation with Ansible

FAQ

• Remote work: We work in the office by default, because we value being together, but it is normal to work remotely from time to time.
• Work hours: Flexible, but we try to be available between 10:00-16:00. Occasionally we need to stay a bit later than that, e.g. to meet with a US client.
• Additional benefits: flat structure, flexible hours, foosball tournaments, private health care
• Employment type: we’re flexible – you can choose between permanent employment and B2B.
• Salary: 13 000 – 17 000 pln gross/month depending on skills & experience.

What we offer

• Employment type: we’re flexible – you can choose between permanent employment and B2B.
• Additional benefits: direct influence on company decisions, space for learning and sharpening your skills, private health care, sports card, flexible hours, foosball tournaments, flat structure
• Remote work: We work in the office by default, because we value being together, but it is normal to work remotely from time to time.

Job description

Analyse the data, verify hypotheses and build models for large global companies. Work from Warsaw or Gdańsk with clients from the US and EU. Work on some of the most advanced R data pipelines and Shiny apps in the world in the leading company in this space.

We’re a young, dynamic, small (~15) team. We work with companies from various industries, providing end-to-end data science consulting: from developing vision, through machine learning models development, to visualization, models productionization, and applications that allow them to use their data to gain business advantage. Over the past 5 years we’ve become the most advanced team out there providing development of applications in Shiny, the web framework for R. Our clients have advanced data science needs, so we have our hands full – we need you!

Our culture is based on three values: trust, learning, and commitment. We often feel like a family. We are devoted to quality of what we deliver and success of our clients. We want to live in Poland and work on great projects with global companies, while maintaining good balance between work and life. We love the opportunity to learn not-widely-known facts about the world we live in thanks to working with companies in various industries and situations.
Before you apply please read our code of conduct

You’ll be working as a Senior Data Scientist. You will be responsible for:

• defining with client what they really need and providing guidance to them
• experimenting with the data and extracting valuable insights
• designing and developing state of the art statistical models and implementing ML algorithms. We work a lot in R, but also in Python.
• guiding decisions made by the team working on a project, making sure we choose good solutions, challenging unfounded assumptions and working directly with client to discover what their true needs are,
• working with software engineers on productionizing your work results
• mentoring other data scientists,
• improving our development processes and practices, and how we work as a whole.

What will your work look like?

• You’ll join a team of software engineers and data scientists.
• You’ll be reporting directly to our VP of Engineering
• You’ll receive mentoring and support from our CTO
• You’ll work in our office in center of Warsaw or in center of Gdańsk.
• You’ll work in a team of 2-5 people on one or two projects at a time
• We work in an agile way (Scrum / Scrumban depending on the project).
• We encourage writing blogposts, preparing and giving public talks, working on internal projects, learning new skills, preparing a tech talk for the rest of the team — so you’ll be able spend part of your time on that.
• We value delivered results over time spent in the office. Our work hours are flexible, but we try to be available between 10:00-16:00. Occasionally we need to stay a bit later than that, e.g. to meet with a US client.

What you need to know now:

• You should have practical programming skills in R or Python
• You should have experience in building statistical models and ML algorithms
• You should have a drive for high quality work and scientific approach
• You should be familiar with working on a version control system like Git
• You should feel comfortable speaking English — most of our clients are international, and a lot of internal communication is in English.

What you’ll need learn when you join (if you know some of these already – awesome!)

• R programming language(going through http://adv-r.had.co.nz/, and familiarizing yourself with Tidyverse packages will be more than enough for the start)
• Python
• Docker
• Code reviews
• Our internal tools for reproducibility and quality

About Appsilon

Job description

• Compose blog posts in English on topics like statistics, artificial intelligence, anti-fraud systems, pricing etc. You will have full expert support to write articles but fundamental technical knowledge is required.
• Write independently articles on non-technical subjects, like usage of satellite images to control deforestation or how data science is used for fraud detection.
• Focus on most pressing World’s problems. Get people attention on them by working on related content. In Appsilon we care about the World and want to dedicate our time to build awareness on problems like clean air, deforestation, reducing waste and renewable energy.
• Proofreading & text editing. You will be responsible for polishing a wide range of texts. From conference applications & our website copy to reports for our clients.
• SEO editing. You will be responsible for reviewing past articles for SEO improvements and making sure that new articles are properly written.
• Social Media – posting content for social media channels – Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook.
• Writing newsletter.

What will your work look like?:

• You’ll join Growth Team which makes sure that our potential customers and employees have heard about Appsilon.
• You’ll receive mentoring and support from SEO expert, graphic designer, developers, digital experts etc.
• You’ll work in our office in the center of Warsaw or in center of Gdańsk, partial remote work is possible.
• Our work is task-oriented, we organize our tasks usually in a weekly manner.
• We value delivered results over time spent in the office. Our work hours are flexible, but we try to be available between 10:00-16:00. Occasionally we need to stay a bit later than that, e.g. to meet with a US client.

What we expect:

• You should have great English skills, C2 with a proven track record is highly expected.
• Polish is not required.
• Have a fundamental knowledge of tech & business-related topics. We will provide training and introduction to have a deeper understanding of Data Science.
• Basic knowledge of SEO/SEM.
• At least 1-year experience in copywriting on technology-related topics.

• Google Analytics & Google Search Console.
• WordPress & MailChimp.
• Deeper understanding on AI, Machine Learning.

What we offer:

• Salary: 4 000 – 7 000 pln gross/month depending on skills & experience.
• Employment type: we’re flexible – you can choose between permanent employment and B2B. Part-time work possible.
• Additional benefits: direct influence on company decisions in marketing & sales area, space for learning and sharpening your skills, private health care, sports card, flexible hours, foosball tournaments, flat structure,
• Remote work: We work in the office by default, because we value being together, but it is normal to work remotely when you need to.