Senior Scientist, Rider Pricing & Incentives

Uber Uber · Consumer · Seattle, WA +2 · Data Science

This role focuses on analyzing data, designing experiments, and building models to optimize Uber's rider pricing and incentives algorithms and platform. It involves understanding product performance, developing new metrics, and informing strategies for marketplace efficiency and reliability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use data to understand product performance and to identify improvement opportunities.
  2. Develop novel experimentation and/or measurement methodology for use in large-scale marketplace settings.
  3. Analyze data and build dashboards for monitoring of KPIs and market health
  4. Design and execute product experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
  5. Present findings to inform business decisions.

Skills

Required

  • Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
  • 4+ years of industry or academic experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent (with at least two of those years in industry).
  • Experience in experimental design and analysis.
  • Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and model development.
  • Proficiency in Python/R and SQL.

Nice to have

  • 6+ years of industry/tech experience in applied science, data science, economics, machine learning, and/or optimization roles.
  • Experience in using Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.
  • Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, economics, and analytics.
  • Experience in algorithm development and prototyping.
  • Experience in pricing optimization and/or marketplace design.
  • Experience in designing large scale experiments in complex environments.
  • Well-honed communication and presentation skills.

What the JD emphasized

  • pricing optimization
  • marketplace design
  • large-scale experiments