About the Role
Uber Marketplace is at the core of Uber's business, and Delivery Pricing is a strategically critical component of Marketplace. The mission of the team is to foster growth and increase profitability of Uber by pushing the frontiers of machine learning, data science, and economics and developing highly reliable and scalable platforms to accelerate Uber's impact on the transportation industry.This role will drive high-impact projects to optimize pricing at Uber using optimization, machine learning, and causal inference.
What You'll Do
- Lead a team of Scientists, including growing and mentoring your team members.
- Use data to understand product performance and to identify improvement opportunities and define product/team roadmaps.
- Design and execute product experiments and non-experimental measurement strategies and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product leads to drive end-to-end development.
- Present findings to senior leadership to inform business decisions.
Basic Qualifications
- Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
- Minimum 6 years of industry experience as a Scientist or equivalent (Minimum 4 years if holding a Ph.D. degree).
- Minimum 1 year of experience in managing a team of Scientists.
- Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, economics, experimental design, and analytics.
- Experienced in partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to execute decisions.
- Ability to use Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of industry experience as a Scientist or equivalent (6+ years if holding a Ph.D. degree).
- 2+ years of experience in managing a team of Scientists with strong leadership skills.
Demonstrated expertise in the marketplace domain.
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