Role-

• Manage a team of Data Scientists and Applied Scientists, while also contributing to projects.
• Build statistical, optimization, and machine learning models for applications including pricing, matching, routing, automated recommendations, growth strategies, and user behaviour modeling.
• Design product experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions.
• Develop data-driven business insights and work with the team and cross-functional partners to identify opportunities, drive product strategy, planning, and execution.
• Drive understanding of our users and their interaction with products, through in-depth analyses of user interaction and engagement.
• Define how teams measure success, by developing Key Performance Indicators and other users/business metrics, in close partnership with Product Management and other disciplines such as engineering, operations and marketing
• Provide rigorous technical mentorship to the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, operations, and marketing to drive system development end-to-end from ideation to productionization.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Physics and minimum 10 years experience in Applied Science or similar field.
• Familiarity with Sql, Python, R or Java to work efficiently at scale with large data sets (including exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis, and machine learning model development) in a production environment.
• Ability to drive clarity on the best modeling or analytic solution for a business objective.
• Advanced knowledge of experiment design and statistical methods.
• Minimum 3 years of management experience in a technical role. 

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Physics or other quantitative fields with 10+ years of industry experience.
• Ph.D in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Physics or other quantitative fields.
• Experience working in a technical role in a marketplace environment
• Strong communication skills, for example, demonstrated through documentation and presentations. Able to present findings to senior management to inform business decisions.