Data Scientist Ii, Tech

Uber Uber · Consumer · New York, NY · Data Science

Data Scientist II, Tech at Uber in New York. Responsible for designing and analyzing experiments, monitoring business trends, conducting deep dives into product usage, and developing dashboards for web product teams. Requires experience with SQL, data visualization tools, R/Python for analysis, experimentation techniques, and big data frameworks like Spark and Hive. The role involves translating business objectives into data science roadmaps and ML project requirements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with the web product team to design and analyze experiments.
  2. Monitor and understand business trends, proactively flag them and work with stakeholders to strategize on solutioning.
  3. Conduct deep dives to develop to help answer abstract questions about product usage.
  4. Develop dashboards that provide reliable insights and visualization into all lines of businesses (LOBs) that touch our web platforms.
  5. Translating high-level organizational objectives into technical data science roadmaps and specific machine learning project requirements to ensure analytical outputs directly support business goals.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Tableau or similar BI tools (Looker, Amplitude, Mixpanel)
  • R or Python for scalable analysis
  • A/B testing, descriptive statistics, correlation, confidence intervals
  • Developing relevant metrics or KPIs
  • Cross-functional collaboration and communication
  • Powerpoint presentations and analysis reports
  • Spark and Hive for scalable data processing

What the JD emphasized

  • Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Emerging Media Studies, or related field and 4 years of experience