Data Scientist III - Spot Pricing

Schedule: Full Time | Job Type: Hybrid | Salary Type: Salary | Req #: 2925. No immigration sponsorship or transfer available for this role.

About the role

We are seeking an exceptionally passionate person to join our Marketplace Data Science team. As a Data Scientist focused on Spot Pricing, you will be driving the evaluation and development of the real-time pricing engine we use to bid on spot freight put up for auction by shippers. You will need to collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, operations, business stakeholders, and other members of the Data Science team to solve problems, create efficiencies, and successfully deliver against high organizational standards.

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis to understand emerging trends in the digital marketplace
• Perform statistical analysis to estimate the impact of changes to our spot pricing algorithms before deployment
• Design, execute and analyze A/B and marketplace experiments to directly measure the business impact of changes to our pricing algorithms on both financial and operational metrics
• Work efficiently at scale with large data sets
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as product, engineering, and operations to drive system development end-to-end from conceptualization to productization

Requirements

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics or related field
• 3 years of related experience
• Experience with SQL, Python

Preferred qualifications

• Masters with 3 years of experience or Bachelors with 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow)
• Experience with Spark
• Advanced knowledge of experimental design and non experimental causal inference techniques
• Strong presentation skills
• Experience working in a digital marketplace and/or dynamic pricing domain

Benefits

For U.S. employees working more than 30 hours per week at Uber Freight: