About the Team Across thousands of storefronts each with thousands of products, Uber Grocery needs to decide exactly what products to show you, how to price them, and how to balance the tricky tradeoffs that come with delivery logistics. We build systems that deeply understand our products, users, and merchants to optimize the marketplace for all parties. 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.
What you will do
- Work closely with ML teams to design algorithms and uncover opportunities to improve ranking and personalization.
- Design and analyze large-scale experiments on grocery users in the Eats app to discover insights that improve our discovery platforms.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Design, and other cross-functional partners to understand user behaviors to inform future product strategies.
- Present findings to senior management to inform business decisions.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry experience working in personalization or search
- Experience in algorithm prototyping and development.
- Experience working with funnel optimization, user segmentation, cohort analysis, and lifetime value forecasting.
- Ability to use Python/PySpark for exploratory data analysis and modeling.
- Strong communication skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields.
- Experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience in modern deep learning architectures and probabilistic models.
- Experience in modern generative AI, such as transformer architectures, diffusion models and prompting.
- Experience guiding and mentoring other Scientists.
- Excellent communication skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.
For New York, NY-based roles:
The base salary range for this role is USD$174,000 per year - USD$193,500 per year.
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 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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