Description
The Marketplace team at Lyft is responsible for accelerating the growth of the business while simultaneously delivering on key business and financial metrics, and Dynamic Pricing & Offer Selection is an integral part of that.
We are looking for fast learning, data-driven individuals who are passionate about tackling these open-ended problems in pricing theory and making a large, positive impact in the business.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with other scientists, colleagues in the pricing team, and with external teams to formalize problems mathematically and within the business context
- Perform complex data analysis to gain a deeper understanding of problems by identifying their root causes
- Develop and fit statistical, machine learning, or optimization models
- Write production code; collaborate with Software Engineers to ship models to production
- Design and implement both simulated and live experiments
- Analyze experimental and observational data; facilitate launch decisions
- Communicate findings to a broad audience consisting of Product, Engineering, and executive leadership
Experience:
- Data Scientist with experience in Machine Learning, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative fields
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields
- 1-4+ years of professional experience for PhDs or 3-5+ years for Master’s in a Data Science role
- Passion for solving unstructured and non-standard mathematical problems
- End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
- Proficiency with Python, or another interpreted programming language like R or Matlab
- Proficiency in SQL - able to write structured and efficient queries involving multiple large data sets
- Ability to collaborate and communicate with others to solve a problem
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners
- Experience in causal inference, LTV modeling, econometrics, or user choice modeling preferred
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
- In addition to 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