Sr. Scientist - Competitive Intelligence
About the role
About The Role The Global Intelligence team works to understand the strategy and performance of Uber and other companies with similar products through a combination of external and internal data. Uber operates in a diverse array of markets and product categories filled with rapidly evolving competing options; assessing the success or failure of a product or strategy depends on understanding this context. Doing this, and doing it well, is an interesting and difficult problem. The team uses its expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, economics, and business to build scalable data products.
We are looking for experienced candidates with a passion for solving new and difficult problems with data. You will build out and own competitive models/metrics, provide key insights, conduct deep dive analysis to understand new opportunities and empower teams to make more informed business and strategy decisions with competitive intelligence.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- What the Candidate Will Do
- Use data to understand competitors' performance and to identify improvement opportunities.
- Conduct competitive intelligence deep dives and present findings to senior management to inform business decisions.
- Build statistical, optimization, and machine learning models for applications to domains like pricing, targeting, and experimentation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, and operations to drive competitor intelligence development end-to-end from ideation to productionization.
Basic Qualifications
- B.S or M.S. in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative field
- 3+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent
- Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and model development.
- Ability to use Python, SQL, R or similar technologies to work efficiently with large data sets
- Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python
- Strong communication skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences
- Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry experience in a similar role
- Experience in competitive intelligence.
- Experience in algorithm development and prototyping.
- To be highly detailed-oriented.
- Excellent judgment, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to translate data science findings into business strategy
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
- Ability to work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to execute decisions.
- Strong verbal and written communication, and presentation skills
- Ambition and enthusiasm to seek opportunities to build value.
For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD$164,000 per year - CAD$182,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
About Uber
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now.
The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.
Sr. Scientist - Competitive Intelligence
About the role
About The Role The Global Intelligence team works to understand the strategy and performance of Uber and other companies with similar products through a combination of external and internal data. Uber operates in a diverse array of markets and product categories filled with rapidly evolving competing options; assessing the success or failure of a product or strategy depends on understanding this context. Doing this, and doing it well, is an interesting and difficult problem. The team uses its expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, economics, and business to build scalable data products.
We are looking for experienced candidates with a passion for solving new and difficult problems with data. You will build out and own competitive models/metrics, provide key insights, conduct deep dive analysis to understand new opportunities and empower teams to make more informed business and strategy decisions with competitive intelligence.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- What the Candidate Will Do
- Use data to understand competitors' performance and to identify improvement opportunities.
- Conduct competitive intelligence deep dives and present findings to senior management to inform business decisions.
- Build statistical, optimization, and machine learning models for applications to domains like pricing, targeting, and experimentation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, and operations to drive competitor intelligence development end-to-end from ideation to productionization.
Basic Qualifications
- B.S or M.S. in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative field
- 3+ years of industry experience as an Applied or Data Scientist or equivalent
- Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and model development.
- Ability to use Python, SQL, R or similar technologies to work efficiently with large data sets
- Coding and SQL proficiency and ability to develop statistical analysis and algorithm prototyping in Python
- Strong communication skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences
- Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry experience in a similar role
- Experience in competitive intelligence.
- Experience in algorithm development and prototyping.
- To be highly detailed-oriented.
- Excellent judgment, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to translate data science findings into business strategy
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
- Ability to work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to execute decisions.
- Strong verbal and written communication, and presentation skills
- Ambition and enthusiasm to seek opportunities to build value.
For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD$164,000 per year - CAD$182,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
About Uber
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now.
The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.