Dillon Patel – Senior Technical Recruiter @ Deliveroo
The Deliveroo team partnered with Data Science Festival for DSF Big Birthday Bash 2026. Find out below how they found the partnership!
Overview
Deliveroo partnered with DSF Big Birthday Bash to support senior data science hiring and increase awareness of its Data Science brand within the wider data community. With Data Science teams working across machine learning, experimentation, forecasting, analytics, and decision making across Deliveroo’s three-sided marketplace of customers, riders, and merchants, the team wanted to connect with data professionals and showcase the problems they are solving.
Objectives
Deliveroo partnered with DSF Big Birthday Bash to:
• Support senior Data Science hiring efforts
• Increase awareness of Deliveroo’s Data Science brand
• Showcase the work being carried out by Deliveroo’s Data Science teams
• Connect with the wider data community
Results
Strong audience engagement
The Deliveroo team highlighted the high level of audience engagement and the genuine interest attendees showed in the challenges and problems Deliveroo is solving.
Generated promising hiring conversations
While it is still early to measure longer term hiring outcomes, the team came away with several promising leads and a number of early-stage conversations.
Long term brand awareness opportunities
Deliveroo expects the video content from its talk to provide ongoing value, helping increase visibility of its Data Science brand through sharing across multiple platforms.
Positive representation of the data community
The team were encouraged by the diversity of attendees and particularly noted the strong representation of women at the event.
Community Engagement
Deliveroo found the audience highly engaged and interested in learning more about the work being carried out by its Data Science teams. The team particularly valued the enthusiasm shown by attendees and the opportunity to discuss real world data science challenges with the community.
Audience Alignment
The audience was engaged and interested in Deliveroo’s work, although the majority of attendees were more junior than the senior individual contributor and management profiles the team is currently hiring for. Deliveroo met several relevant candidates during the event while also benefiting from broader brand exposure within the data community.
Partner Feedback
“I’d definitely recommend sponsoring DSF as the team are great to work with, the event is really well run and it’s a good opportunity to get your brand in front of the data community.”
— Dillon Patel, Senior Technical Recruiter, Deliveroo