Description
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything.
As the Head Economist for Marketplace Strategy, you will be the architectural lead for the logic that powers our Dispatch, Pricing and/or Supply Planning systems. You sit at the intersection of economic theory, data science, and commercial strategy.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:
- Strategy & Domain Stewardship
- Architect Marketplace Mechanisms: Own the economic logic behind our core Dispatch, Pricing, and/or Supply Planning engines, as well as design incentive frameworks and clearing mechanisms that ensure market health.
- Shape the Roadmap: Own the strategic direction of our tech roadmap within your domain, using data-driven insights and hyper-local market understanding to define future priorities.
- Influence & Stakeholder Management: Provide strategic advice to country heads and functional leaders.
- Team Leadership & Development
- Build & Scale: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of economists and data scientists.
- Drive Quality: Guide the team in applying experimental methods and structural modeling to ensure our biggest business bets are backed by rigorous, causal evidence.
- Manage Workload: Prioritize the team's research agenda to handle the most critical marketplace "unknowns".
- Technical Strategy & Innovation
- Bridge Theory and Reality: Oversee the translation of theoretical economic models into real-world applications within our dispatch and pricing algorithms.
- Advanced Analytics: Maintain oversight of the team's use of causal inference, structural modeling, and machine learning.
- Experimentation: Design and lead high-stakes A/B testing and quasi-experimental frameworks to optimize dispatch logic and price elasticity.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Essential Experience:
- Leadership: Demonstrated experience building relationships across functional teams and leading a group of independent technical contributors.
- Strategic Depth: Ability to "see the forest for the trees," breaking down ambiguous, multi-year marketplace problems into manageable pieces.
- Communication: Good storytelling and presentation skills.
- Relevant Background: Experience in marketplace design, pricing strategy, or economic consulting, within a high-velocity tech environment.
Technical Skills:
- The Academic or Professional Foundation requires an advanced degree in Economics or a related quantitative field.
- Causal Inference: Expertise in quasi-experimental methods.
- Data Proficiency: Good command of SQL and statistical programming (R or Python).