# Lead Data Scientist, People Analytics

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Singapore, 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, providing various services such as food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

The People Science team, within Grab's Office of Organisational Capabilities, turns people data, research, and AI into better organisational decisions.

As Lead Data Scientist, People Analytics, you will apply strategic consulting, applied research, and structured problem-solving to complex people and organisational challenges.

The Critical Tasks:

- Build an organisational listening and action engine using employee listening, workforce, behavioural, and operational data to identify signals, diagnose root causes, and guide action.

- Build user-centric AI systems and agents that automate People Science workflows, from data discovery and analysis to hypothesis testing, programme evaluation, insight generation, and recommendations.

- Conduct applied organisational research using qualitative and quantitative methods, including surveys, interviews, experiments, and mixed-method approaches.

- Design hypotheses and evaluate People programmes or interventions using appropriate research, experimental, or quasi-experimental methods.

- Act as a strategic advisor to People and business leaders by framing ambiguous problems, conducting analysis, evaluating options, and translating evidence into practical decisions.

- Democratise people data through accessible AI agents, self-service tools, and data products that help non-technical users make better decisions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- 8 - 12 years of experience in strategic consulting, applied research, organisational research, decision science, analytics, or a related field, with hands-on end-to-end problem solving.

- Experience advising senior stakeholders by defining ambiguous problems, diagnosing root causes, evaluating options, and translating evidence into practical decisions.

- Strong applied research capability across qualitative and quantitative methods, including research design, hypothesis development, surveys, interviews, experiments, and mixed-method approaches.

- Practical knowledge of programme evaluation, experimental design, causal or quasi-experimental analysis, and the ability to interpret evidence and its limitations.

- Experience synthesising data, research findings, and user perspectives into clear recommendations.

- Working proficiency in at least one analytical language, such as SQL, Python, or R, with the ability to conduct and interpret analysis.

- Experience engaging with AI tools and emerging technologies to improve research, analysis, workflows, and decision support, with an understanding of responsible AI, privacy, and bias considerations.

Life at Grab:

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

- GrabFlex, creating 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
- strategic consulting
- applied research
- organisational research
- decision science
- analytics
- SQL
- Python
- R
- AI tools
- emerging technologies

### Nice to have
- People Analytics
- organisational psychology
- behavioural science
- workforce strategy
- social research
- AI systems
- AI agents
- LLM-enabled workflows
- analytical automation

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