Pricing Data Scientist
iHerb · Irvine, CA · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$175k–$198k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Pricing Data Scientist is a hands-on, high-autonomy individual contributor responsible for owning end-to-end pricing analytics and measurement in close partnership with the Pricing organization. This role focuses on practical, decision-driven work including competitive price validation, pricing test measurement, promotion and discount analysis, elasticity assessment, and executive-ready insights.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end pricing analytics, modeling and measurement in close partnership with the Pricing organization, supporting day-to-day pricing decisions as well as longer-term strategy refinement
- Build, validate, and maintain applied pricing models (e.g., elasticity, incrementality, sensitivity tiers) that balance statistical rigor with real-world constraints and imperfect data
- Design and execute measurement approaches for pricing tests and promotions, including A/B tests and quasi-experimental methods, accounting for seasonality, halo, and cannibalization
- Lead competitive pricing analytics, including validation of external pricing data, imputation logic for incomplete coverage, and ongoing quality monitoring to ensure confidence in insights
- Translate complex analytical outputs into clear, decision-ready insights, articulating implications, tradeoffs, and recommended actions to pricing leadership and senior executives
- Partner closely with BI Analytics and Data Engineering to shape pricing datasets, contribute to data modeling where needed, and ensure analytical outputs are scalable and reusable
- Independently develop analytical workflows using SQL and Python, moving fluidly between data exploration, modeling, and insight generation without reliance on heavy guidance
- Contribute to the development of pricing dashboards and recurring analytical outputs for the Pricing team, prioritizing clarity, usability, and decision relevance over visual polish
- Continuously refine pricing measurement frameworks as the business evolves, balancing speed, accuracy, and practicality in a fast-moving global environment
Requirements
- Strong applied quantitative background with demonstrated experience designing, building, and deploying Python-based data science models, including production workflows, to inform pricing, promotions, or commercial decisions in a retail or eCommerce environment
- Hands-on expertise with SQL and Python, with the ability to independently extract, manipulate, model, and analyze large datasets end-to-end
- Experience designing and interpreting pricing or promotional measurement, including experimentation (A/B testing) and quasi-experimental approaches, with comfort navigating imperfect data and incomplete controls
- Practical experience with pricing concepts such as elasticity, price sensitivity, discounting, promotions, and incrementality, with an emphasis on directional insight over theoretical precision
- Proven ability to translate analytical outputs into clear, actionable insights, articulating implications, risks, and tradeoffs to senior business stakeholders
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and limited guidance, demonstrating sound judgment, prioritization, and bias toward execution in fast-moving environments
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills paired with business intuition, enabling independent ownership of complex measurement problems from framing through delivery
- Ability to collaborate effectively across Analytics, Pricing, Finance, and Engineering, balancing technical rigor with pragmatic business needs
Preferred Experience
- Supporting pricing decisions in a global or multi-market retail or e-commerce environment, including regional pricing variation or localized promotions
- Familiarity with competitive pricing intelligence data, including validation, normalization, and imputation of external price sources
- Experience partnering closely with Pricing, Finance, or Commercial Strategy teams to inform margin, contribution, or profitability-focused decisions
- Hands-on experience building reusable analytical frameworks or standardized measurement templates that scale
Pay
$175,000—$198,000 USD