Senior Scientist, Grocery & Retail

About the Role

Grocery & Retail is one of Uber's biggest new bets. Since launching in 2020, we've achieved an annual run rate of $7 billion in global gross bookings and integrated two strategic acquisitions, Cornershop and Drizly. Our team builds across the end-to-end grocery experience, including consumer growth, fulfillment flows, and catalog management.

This role supports our consumer growth teams, helping us optimize traffic to the Grocery & Retail category in the Uber Eats app. Projects include funnel analysis, user targeting, promo optimization, and SKU analysis.

What you will do

• Design and analyze large-scale experiments on grocery users in the Eats app.
• Perform strategic deep dives to uncover opportunities for product and business growth, including funnel optimization, user segmentation, and lifetime value forecasting.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Design, and other cross-functional partners to understand user behaviors to inform future product strategies.
• Work closely with ML teams to uncover opportunities to improve ranking and personalization.
• Present findings to senior management to inform business decisions.

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
• Minimum 3 years of industry experience as a Data Scientist or equivalent.
• Experience in experimental design and analysis, exploratory data analysis and statistical analysis.
• Experience with dashboard/data visualization toolings.
• Ability to use Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.
• Proficiency in SQL.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Experience in algorithm prototyping and development.
• Experience working with funnel optimization, user segmentation, cohort analysis, and lifetime value forecasting.
• Ability to use Python/R for exploratory data analysis and modeling.
• Strong communication skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$174,000 per year - USD$193,500 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$174,000 per year - USD$193,500 per year.

For all US locations, 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.

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