We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Data Team, to help provide insights and build solutions across our business, providing the foundations to grow the business to the next level.

About Yoto

Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like BrainBots.

• Voted the 14th fastest-growing private software technology company in Britain in The Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025; and named the 94th fastest-growing company in Europe in the prestigious FT1000.

• Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.

• Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast50.

• Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020.

• We’re over 200 employees spread across the world.. and growing!

We’re on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it! 

Yoto’s Data Team

We’re a small team at the heart of all the decisions Yoto makes. We work in a high-trust environment with a lot of independence. Everyone can contribute ideas and be part of the decision making process. We tackle a broad range of problems, from developing cutting edge data solutions to maintaining and building data ingestion pipelines, query and orchestration platforms, our work spans across all the key strategic projects throughout the company.

What you’ll be doing:

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our growing Data Team. You’ll work closely with product, engineering and our commercial teams, leveraging data to unlock insights, build solutions and drive strategic decisions. You’ll help teams understand user behaviour, measure impact, and make confident decisions about what to build next. We lean on AI and modern tooling heavily, and so will you.

• Partner with product and commercial teams to understand customer behaviour, and turn that into decisions people actually act on

• Help create experimentation frameworks and approaches, that maximise our ability to learn quickly and confidently about customer experiences

• Use non-experimental modelled approaches to help measure the impact of product features and growth projects, making clear the limitations and uncertainties

• Defining the metrics that decisions actually hang on, and making sure people know what a result really means, and what it doesn’t

• Working to improve the efficacy of our internal LLM solutions, helping stakeholders navigate their own analysis and results, communicating uncertainties and risk as well as opportunities.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in data science roles, with a track record of influencing product or business decision making with data, insights and solutions

• Applied experience in statistics and probability, strong grounding in experimentation and causal inference methods

• Proven experience in navigating priorities across senior stakeholders, good judgement about where to spend effort, and being able to lead the direction of projects

• Proficiency in SQL and python, and experience working with modern data stacks (e.g. GCP, AWS, Snowflake)

• Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the opportunity to shape how data drives decision-making at Yoto

• Ability to translate complex data findings into clear, compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 based on experience

What you can expect from Yoto:

• Flexibility: Hybrid working - expectation of 1 day a week on average in our London office, but you are welcome to come in more than this. How you meet the minimum expectation is up to you, to ensure you're happy and productive in your role whilst also getting that vital face time with your colleagues. Take advantage of our ‘work from anywhere’ policy to work from a different location for up to 6 weeks every year. Summer Hours policy to use between the months of June and August.

• Financial: Receive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service. Life Assurance cover from day one of your service. Workplace Pension offering up to to 3% employer contributions, following probation. Generous employee referral bonus scheme.

• Health & Wellness: Private Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy. Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) through WeCare and unlimited access to Dental advice and guidance via Toothfairy. Bike to work scheme to promote healthier lifestyles.

• Time Off: 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays. On top of this, you also receive your birthday off, plus 1 extra day of holiday for every year worked after you hit your 2 year anniversary, up to 5 extra days. After 4 years of service, you are also eligible for our sabbatical policy offering up to 3 months' of unpaid sabbatical.

• Helping Families: Variety of family-friendly leave, including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, pregnancy loss and carers leave. Unlock savings with our workplace nursery scheme, designed to support parents of preschool-aged children.

• People & Planet: Up to 2 volunteer days a year. A Book Allowance of up to £50 a year to contribute to your professional development.

• Fun Perks: You receive your very own Yoto player and starter pack of cards! Regular company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest!

Equity and Diversity

At Yoto, we love creating a world where childhood is rich with discovery and joy. We’re also passionate about building a workplace where everyone can thrive - both professionally and personally. We value flexibility and give our team the freedom to balance life and work in ways that suit them.

We're committed to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive environment where all individuals, regardless of their background, feel valued and supported. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion group holds bi-monthly forums to elevate diverse voices and perspectives, ensuring everyone at Yoto feels heard, respected, and appreciated.

We don’t just embrace differences - we celebrate them. We share audio content from a vibrant and diverse community of creators (check out our DEI selection), and we are building a team that reflects that same diversity. We invite candidates from all walks of life to explore opportunities with us and join a company that champions flexibility, equity, and inclusion. Take a look at our website for more information on our approach to People and Planet.

Please only apply or engage with Yoto jobs posted on our careers page (careers.yotoplay.com or careers.yotoplay.com/en). All correspondence from our Talent team will only come through Teamtailor, our application tracking system.