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Tessian protects every business’s mission by securing the human layerThe Tessian Cloud Email Security platform helps enterprises defend against email attacks, protect against data loss and respond to security incidents more efficiently. By combining artificial intelligence with an understanding of employee email behavior, Tessian is able to prevent complex email attacks and data loss incidents that evade Secure Email Gateways and the built in security controls of M365 and Google Workspace.The world’s largest banks, healthcare organizations, hedge funds and law firms all use Tessian to secure their email environments, data and people whilst saving their security team time. In 2022 alone, Tessian prevented hundreds of thousands of business email compromise attacks, data loss incidents and saved hundreds of hours of work for security teams.Tessian is headquartered in London and Boston with 200+ employees globally and has raised over $120m in venture capital funding from world leading investors like Sequoia, Accel, Balderton, March, Citi and Okta. Tessian was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022. More information can be found at www.tessian.com.Data Science at TessianOur mission is to secure the human layer. This involves deploying near real-time machine learning models at massive scale to some of the world’s largest organisations to keep their most sensitive data private and secure. To do this, we’re looking for a senior data scientist with NLP experience ready to work on hard problems, drive best practice and cultivate an environment of experimentation and learning.Companies can leverage data science in a number of ways, and we think the role of a Data Scientist falls into three distinct categories:

• You work for a business function analysing & reporting on how to improve a key metric, e.g increasing user conversion
• You are responsible for writing production models to enhance the main product, e.g recommendation systems for e-commerce
• You build the product – without machine learning, it wouldn’t exist

The Data Science team built the product at Tessian. We couldn’t exist without our machine learning models; they are at the heart of what we do, and they are what our clients rely on day-to-day. We’re searching for a Senior Data Scientist who is excited about the opportunities and challenges that come with researching, building and deploying real-time production models.On a day to day basis you’ll get to

• Work across massive enterprise email datasets
• Train and deploy models to production that impacts directly our customers and products
• Improve our ML workflow
• Work closely with our Engineering and Product Team to enhance our products
• Make your mark on ambitious projects

We’d love to meet someone who

• 4+ years Data Science experience
• Can balance longer term projects alongside impactful quick wins
• Cares deeply about the impact their team has
• Is creative at heart, and can encourage novel ways of thinking in their team. This has always been a core part of the data science team’s DNA
• Reads Rules of Machine Learning – Martin Zinkevich and it resonates with how they think about machine learning and data science
• Enjoys “getting their hands dirty” by digging into complex operations
• Takes responsibility for delivering large projects that require collaboration from start to finish
• Has strong listening skills; open to input from other team members and departments
• Has worked with, or understands the principles behind working with data at scale

If you’re not sure that you exactly fit all of the above criteria, please do get in touch anyway. We’re always willing to speak to great candidates even if you don’t feel you meet every criteria listed!Tessian is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. The Human Layer we’re securing is diverse, and we know we need to be diverse and inclusive to successfully create HLS that reflects this. You can read our equality and diversity statement here.As part of our commitment to equality and diversity, we’re also a corporate member of the WISE Campaign for gender equality in STEM & we’re a founding member of the WEDS network driving diversity & inclusion in startups.By submitting your application to Tessian, you consent to Tessian retaining your information and contacting you about future job opportunities, that may be of interest, for up to 2 years in accordance with our Privacy Policy