Senior Data Scientist — Clean Cooking Payg Lpg

Senior Data Scientist — Clean Cooking (PAYG LPG) — Sun King — Kenya | ClimateTechList live jobs tracker
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Job Description
About the role
At Sun King, we've solved the sale, distribution and financing of solar products. The next challenge we're taking on is clean cooking. Over 2 billion people still cook with dirty and dangerous fuels. We're building on our existing sales and distribution network to supply pay-as-you-go (PAYG) LPG to families who can't afford the upfront cost of a stove and cylinder, and to serve areas where LPG was not previously available. The business runs today in Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania, with a target of 1 million active PAYG LPG customers by the end of 2028.
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to own data products end to end — discovery, development, delivery and the feedback loop. You'll sit inside the Clean Cooking business unit and partner directly with sales, operations, customer success and the call centre to find where data science can remove the biggest blockers to clean cooking adoption, then build and ship the models that remove them.
The problems are unusually concrete. One week you might be modelling how a price change affects refill behaviour across customer cohorts; the next, quantifying which early usage patterns predict a customer who activates but never builds a cooking habit, or improving how we schedule last-mile cylinder deliveries. This is a role for someone who wants their models to move a P&L, not just a leaderboard.
This is a senior individual-contributor role with real product ownership, not a people-management role. You won't be a good fit if you're looking for a purely technical role without regular interaction with commercial colleagues and customers.
What Success Looks like
Your work will be measured against the commercial metrics of the PAYG LPG business, not model metrics alone. In your first 12 months you will be expected to:
Ship 2–3 data products into production use by commercial or operations teams, each with a measured impact on at least one of: activation rate, refill frequency, dormancy/churn, ARPU or cost-to-serve.
Establish the BU's approach to pricing and promotion analysis — elasticity estimates, uplift measurement and experiment design that commercial leaders actually use to make decisions.
Build monitoring for the models you ship, with agreed retraining triggers and a clear owner for each.

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