Scientist II – Ads & Offers
| Company | Uber |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada, San Francisco, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $155000 – $172000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in Economics, Operations Research, Statistics or other quantitative fields. (If M.S. or Bachelors degree, a minimum of 1+ years of industry experience as a Data Scientist or equivalent required)
- Strong Python or R foundation and expertise.
- Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, optimization, economics, and analytics.
- Knowledge of experimental design and analysis.
- Analytical rigor in approaching product problems.
Responsibilities
- Build statistical, optimization, and machine learning models for a range of applications in the Ads Delivery space (e.g. auction, bidding, pacing, ranking).
- Design and execute product experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
- Use data to understand product performance and to identify improvement opportunities.
- Present findings to leadership to inform business decisions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, and marketing to drive system development end-to-end from ideation to productionization.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2-4 years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent.
- Experience building Ads Delivery systems.
- Strong in product sense.
- Can use data and insights to driven decisions, help team shape the product vision and roadmap.
- Have the potential to frame ambitious, open product, can simplify complicated problems.