Sr Manager, Science - Driver Pricing

About the Role

The Driver Pricing science team, jointly with the driver pricing engineering orgs, is responsible for driver offer pricing algorithms, driver promotions, and driver positioning, driving marketplace efficiency, consistency, and long term driver health through these algorithms. It is also responsible for measurements and long term studies for monitoring of health of these systems and our driver community.

What You'll Do

• Manage and support a team or scientists and science managers
• Work with eng and product partners to continuously optimize key pricing and promotion systems
• Come up with metrics and measurements/ experimentation methodology to learn about the impact of these systems
• Work with business/operations teams to give insights about marketplace health, earnings health, and help solve global business problems.

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D. degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative fields
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with 4 years of people management experience.
• Experience in building and managing high performance science teams - including mentoring and coaching senior ICs and people managers.
• Experience with experimental design, exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis, causal inference, and model development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in both a data ETL language (e.g. SQL) and a scripting language like Python or R for data analysis.
• Track record in prioritizing and driving multiple work-streams forward simultaneously
• Ability to empower a team while providing them with career paths that align with business goals.
• Proven track record of collaborating with and influencing stakeholders.
• Principled yet pragmatic, having conviction and being authentic in your approach, but situationally aware enough to adapt when needed.
• Exhibit sound business judgment, long term and deep analytical thinking. Adept at influencing various stakeholders.
• Excellent storyteller with the ability to translate deep technical subjects into understandable narratives for non-technical audiences.
• Able to build a clear technical vision of the system that balances customer empathy, business needs and practical considerations.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$241,000 per year - USD$268,000 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 .

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