Remote Principal Data Scientist, Pricing

Summary

Join OLX and work on pricing as a technical expert to establish smart pricing models and policies for all customer units.

Requirements

• Very strong analytical skills
• Experience in the areas of Pricing and Pricing optimization, in a commercial setting
• Knowledge of Causal Inference and strong statistical skills (e.g., design of experiments and hypothesis testing)
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives that drive scalable impact
• An eye for proactively identifying opportunities for impact in multiple domains and in collaboration with multiple teams
• Ability to envision the future and articulate it to a broad community of Product and Commercial leaders as well as other key stakeholders
• A deep understanding of machine learning techniques and experience applying them to solve business problems
• Track record in leading cross-functional initiatives that span across the organization
• A strong engineering background with good knowledge of Python and exposure to one more programming language (Kotlin, Java, etc), as well as engineering best practices
• Experience writing SQL queries and handling large amounts of data
• Proficient in English with excellent written and oral communication skills!
• Strong presentation skills
• Able to work in diverse, multi-functional teams with people from different backgrounds

Responsibilities

• Work in the Data Science team, focusing on Pricing Optimization, from a platform and marketplace perspective
• Leading projects and initiatives in collaboration with local Data Science and Data Engineering teams, as well as Product and Commercial leaders
• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders
• Work with Product Analytics to track the KPIs of different ML use cases and measure the impact on our customers
• Partner with the Experimentation team to integrate the KPIs and their proxies into the Experimentation (A/B testing) platform
• Helping to formulate data science solutions in order to improve business jointly with product managers and engineers
• Ensuring successful achievement of research and development objectives through stakeholder management and mentoring of more junior Data Scientists
• Working on optimizing the models according to the requirements of the specific use case and collaborating with other team members to bring in production and scale machine learning solutions
• Measuring the impact of your models against company goals
• Working in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software against schedules

Benefits

• Permanent contract
• Salary + annual bonus up to 20% of your annual gross salary
• Work with and impact all OLX services in Europe
• Train and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
• Health insurance and life insurance
• MacBook Pro along with necessary accessories to make your work comfortable
• 100% remote work (and the possibility to work from our office in Poznan, Warsaw or Krakow)