Lyft-posted about 1 year ago
$144,000 - $180,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

As a Data Scientist on the Pricing team at Lyft, you will leverage optimization and inference to shape critical business decisions in a dynamic environment. This role focuses on developing models and software systems that determine pricing for riders, ensuring competitive pricing while balancing financial trade-offs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to uncover new opportunities and drive data-driven decision-making.

  • Partner with Engineers, Product Managers, and Business Partners to frame problems mathematically and within the business context
  • Prioritize and lead deep dives into our data to uncover new product and business opportunities
  • Collaborate with Software Engineers to implement algorithms and models in production
  • Design, implement, and analyze different types of experiments to facilitate data-driven decision making
  • Establish metrics that measure the health of our products, as well as rider and driver experience
  • Drive collaboration and coordination with cross-functional teams
  • Provide coaching and technical guidance for other teammates
  • Ph.D. in Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative fields or related work experience
  • 2+ years professional experience in technology companies
  • Proven experience with building and evaluating optimization and inference models
  • Proficiency with Python and working in a production coding environment
  • Passion for solving unstructured and non-standard mathematical problems
  • End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building benefits
  • Unlimited paid time off for salaried team members
  • 15 days paid time off for hourly team members
  • 401(k) plan
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Lyft Pink - exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of the Ridership Program
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