Staff Data Scientist– Pricing Science

About the Role

As our Staff Data Scientist, you will design and ship production pricing systems such as demand forecasting, price elasticity modeling, dynamic pricing and the experimentation infrastructure needed to measure whether they actually work.

This is a hard, high-stakes problem: your models will directly influence margin and revenue decisions across a portfolio of brands operating at scale. You will own the full arc from framing ambiguous business problems as well-defined ML tasks through to monitoring models that hold up in production.

At six months, success looks like at least one pricing model shipped to production with measurable business impact and an experimentation framework in place that your stakeholders trust. If you have spent time building pricing systems from the ground up, not just consuming them, and you care deeply about rigorous causal inference and honest model evaluation, this role was written for you.

What You'll Do

• Design and build production ML systems for pricing, demand forecasting, and related revenue problems
• Frame ambiguous business problems as well-defined ML tasks with clear success criteria and measurable outcomes
• Set the standard for model evaluation, validation, and monitoring — including knowing when CV metrics are misleading and when holdout testing is the only honest answer
• Build robust predictive models across classification, regression, time series, and causal inference
• Identify and prevent data leakage, overfitting, and other failure modes before they reach production
• Design and analyze experiments to measure causal impact of pricing decisions
• Debug models that fail in production — understand why they fail, not just that they do
• Translate model limitations, uncertainty, and risk clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to ensure ML solutions solve real problems

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of applied ML / data science experience with a track record of production systems that delivered measurable business impact.
• Deep experience in pricing, demand forecasting, or revenue optimization — you have built these models end-to-end, not just consumed them.
• Expert-level Python and SQL.
• Deep understanding of ML fundamentals beyond API-level usage, including model evaluation, validation, and failure mode diagnosis.
• Strong grounding in causal inference and experimental design, including the ability to distinguish correlation from causal result.
• Ability to work with messy, real-world data and make pragmatic tradeoffs under ambiguity.
• Familiarity with cloud ML platforms (GCP/Vertex AI or AWS/SageMaker).
• MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in e-commerce, retail, marketplace, or pricing-intensive industries such as airlines, ride-sharing, or fintech.