Staff Data Scientist

Responsibilities

• Drive roadmap across Rider Segments, Loyalty and Partnerships teams.
• Be a primary participant in defining team goals and setting the priorities of projects for the team to address.
• Partner with org leads in product, engineering, UX research, design and marketing to initiate, design, develop and scale zero-to-one products and drive business strategy through data-centric presentations.
• Define and maintain key objectives to align with the overarching goals of Rider, Marketplace and Lyft.
• Apply modeling, advanced analytics, experimentation and causal inference techniques to drive decision-making at Lyft.
• Drive cross-org impact and alignment, shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations.
• Advise teams on best practices. Be a thought leader and go-to expert for stakeholders and dependency teams.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design, implementation, as well as lead code reviews.
• Advise teams on best practices. Be a thought leader and go-to expert for stakeholders and dependency teams.

Requirements

• M.S. and at least 6 or Ph.D. and at least 4 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong preference for M.S.+.
• Proficiency in SQL - able to write structured and efficient queries on large data sets.
• Fluency in programming, especially with data science and visualization libraries in Python or R.
• Technical leadership experience with a team of decisions and algorithms data scientists, interfacing VP or C-level executives.
• Experience designing and analyzing complex A/B experiments, and communicating results and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong oral and written communication skills (i.e, business writing, presentation building & delivery, executive briefings).
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate with senior cross-functional stakeholders to drive shared outcomes.
• Experience working with ETL pipelines a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience working with ETL pipelines a plus.

Skills

• Experience working with ETL pipelines a plus.

Benefits

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled.
• Mental health benefits.
• Family building benefits.
• Child care and pet benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future.
• 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits.
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.