About the Role
End-to-end product development from data analytics, modeling and experimentation perspective. Specifically, formulating ambiguous business problems, prototyping various machine learning & optimization & causal inference & marketplace dynamics models, producing data insights, and designing & analyzing experiments.
*We are hiring for multiple teams*
We are building the future of Uber's mobility and logistics platforms. Our teams drive innovation across critical areas including:
- Delivery Marketplace: A central pillar of Uber’s delivery products, serving as the "brain" of the operation. We drive every decision that enables orders to go from point A to point B — from Uber Eats & Grocery, to newer verticals like Uber Direct and Connect. We’re responsible for running an efficient marketplace with dispatch & pricing decisions.
- Maps: Building the geospatial technologies for all of Uber, including travel time prediction (ETA), routing, search & ranking, pickup & dropoff recommendation, and trip intelligence. The outputs power marketplace systems like pricing & matching and the core trip experience.
- Uber One Membership: Enhancing user experience and growth for Uber One, a fast-growing program providing members with exclusive benefits, best prices, and priority across the platform.
- Experimentation Platform: Building the experimentation platform and the underlying measurement models at Uber, providing reliable, trustworthy and agile experimentation and experiment analysis to power business decisions across the entire Uber ecosystem.
- Autonomous Mobility & Delivery (AM&D): Pioneering the integration of autonomous vehicles into the existing ecosystem, tackling the complex challenge of building a reliable, efficient, and scalable hybrid marketplace for both Rides and Eats.
What You’ll Do
- Solve ambiguous, challenging business problems using data-driven approaches including ML, Optimization, Causal Inference.
- Develop and implement statistical / econometric methodologies to improve results validity, power and generalizability.
- Develop data-driven business insights and work with cross-functional customers to find opportunities and recommend prioritization of product, growth, and optimization initiatives.
- Design and analyze experiments, present results that provide actionable recommendations.
- Orient the teams around data-driven product development by driving the creation of logging, metrics, data visualization and diagnostic tools, and experimentation paradigms.
- Define how our teams measure success, by developing metrics, in close partnership with cross functional partners.
- Owning the product development cycle end to end from data and science aspects.
Basic Qualifications
- Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
- 2+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent (not required with Ph.D.).
- Background in at least one programming language (eg. Python, R, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl)
- Ability to use Python or similar technologies to work efficiently with large data sets and prototype algorithms & models
- Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python or R.
- Design experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions across a variety of key performance indicators
Preferred Qualfications
- Ph.D. in Economics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research or other quantitative fields.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills: Able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
- Experience in leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others
- Thought leadership to drive multi-functional projects from concept to production.
- Experience in large-scale marketplace algorithm design, membership / consumer growth, or experimentation platform.
- Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and model development
- Strong programming skills to prototype models in at least one of Python (preferably), R, Java, Go, Scala
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