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Data Scientist, Pricing

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. Data Scientists at Lyft work in dynamic environments, where we embrace moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation. We take on a variety of problems ranging from shaping long-term business strategy with data, making short-term critical decisions, and building algorithms/models/tools that power our internal and external products. 

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the Pricing vertical of the Marketplace team. Pricing is at the core of Lyft’s business, right at the crossroad between technical challenges and business impact. You will be working with a strong data science team who use a variety of models that apply causal inference, economic modeling, Reinforcement Learning and more to the problem of setting prices across multiple Offerings, different regions and time horizons. You will be par tof the cross-functional team to help develop the vision, set roadmaps, and lead execution for future projects in Pricing.

Experience:

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field like statistics, economics, computer science, operations research,; or relevant work experience

• 4+ years of hands-on industry experience in causal inference or data science

• Track record of using statistics, economic modeling and Machine Learning and guiding teams through unstructured technical problems to deliver business impact