# Senior Data Scientist (Ads & Demand Optimization)

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, offering various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist (G4) to bridge ads ranking and demand personalization. You will develop algorithmic frameworks that shape user journeys, govern ads auctions, and allocate promotional budgets.

**Critical Tasks:**

- Design Optimization Frameworks: Develop data science methodologies for ad ranking and automated promo assignment.

- Lead Causal Inference: Deploy uplift models and causal inference frameworks to maximise promotional incrementality.

- Optimise Auctions: Improve ads auction mechanics and budget allocation to balance ecosystem health and platform ROI.

- Experimentation and Metrics: Design frameworks (A/B testing, switchback, bandits) evaluating CTR, CVR, and incremental GMV.

- Collaborate: Partner with Product and Engineering to translate marketplace challenges into clear data science roadmaps.

**Qualifications:**

- Qualification: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields

- Experience: At least 4 years as a Data Scientist in ads ranking, recommendation, uplift modelling, or marketplace optimization.

- Methodology: Expertise in causal inference, uplift modelling, experimental design, or ads auction theory.

- Foundations: statistical modelling, machine learning, and mathematical optimization foundations.

- Tools: Proficiency in Python, SQL, and distributed data frameworks like Spark for large-scale datasets.

- Communication: Ability to translate complex concepts and bring structural clarity to open-ended product problems.

**Additional Information:**

- We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance

- GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations

- Parental and Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave

- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme

- FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Spark
- causal inference
- uplift modelling
- experimental design
- ads auction theory
- statistical modelling
- machine learning
- mathematical optimization

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