Data Scientist - Optimization, Pricing/Rider Engagement

Lyft • New York, NY

6h • $128,000 - $160,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
The Pricing team is a centerpiece of Lyft’s marketplace. The Pricing team owns the models and software systems that determine the final prices shown to riders. Working with our business and analytics partners, the team owns tools to ensure Lyft offers competitive prices while making efficient financial trade-offs. Rider Engagement is a fast-growing team within Pricing, focused on developing rider-facing engagement levers and optimizing allocations and decisioning systems to drive both short term and long term business outcomes.
As a Data Scientist specializing in Algorithms on the Rider Engagement team, you will develop mathematical models for core discounting systems and address diverse problems across optimization, prediction, machine learning, and inference. You will collaborate with cross-functional teammates and stakeholders to enhance algorithms, build and scale our rider engagement products and systems, and drive business growth. We are looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and impactful environment, and is adept at balancing complexity and efficiency to translate real world business problems into reliable solutions and decisioning frameworks. In this role, you will report to a Data Science Manager.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Operations Research, or other quantitative fields or related work experience
• Proven experience with building and evaluating optimization 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 verbal and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate and communicate with others to solve a problem

Responsibilities

• 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
• Be familiar with production code; collaborate with Software Engineers to implement algorithms and models in production
• Design, implement, and analyse different types of experiments, and facilitate and foster data-driven and informed decision making and prioritization
• 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

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree