Staff Data Scientist

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. As a member of the Science team, you will work in a dynamic environment, where we embrace moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation. Data Scientists take on a variety of problems ranging from shaping critical business decisions to building algorithms that power our internal and external products. 

As a Data Scientist, Decisions in the Rider team, you will leverage data and apply analytical thinking and inference to shape our rider and partner product vision and make business decisions that put our customers first. You will identify improvement opportunities, propose and implement technical solutions, design experiments, and measure the impact of your team’s decisions. You will partner closely with product, engineering, design, research, marketing and business development to deliver products end-to-end. You will also collaborate and build alignment with adjacent teams outside of Rider to balance driver, rider and marketplace needs. We’re looking for well-rounded, passionate, driven Data Scientists to take on some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ridesharing.

• →Drive roadmap across Rider Segments, Loyalty and Partnerships teams. Be a primary participant in defining team goals and setting the priorities of projects for the team to address.
• →Partner with org leads in product, engineering, UX research, design and marketing to initiate, design, develop and scale zero-to-one products and drive business strategy through data-centric presentations
• →Define and maintain key objectives to align with the overarching goals of Rider, Marketplace and Lyft.
• →Apply modeling, advanced analytics, experimentation and causal inference techniques to drive decision-making at Lyft.
• →Drive cross-org impact and alignment, shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations
• →Advise teams on best practices. Be a thought leader and go-to expert for stakeholders and dependency teams
• →Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design, implementation, as well as lead code reviews.

• M.S. and at least 6 or Ph.D. and at least 4 years of relevant work experience
• Degree in economics, applied math, statistics, engineering or other quantitative fields; strong preference for M.S.+
• Proficiency in SQL - able to write structured and efficient queries on large data sets
• Fluency in programming, especially with data science and visualization libraries in Python or R
• Technical leadership experience with a team of decisions and algorithms data scientists, interfacing VP or C-level executives.
• Experience designing and analyzing complex A/B experiments, and communicating results and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong oral and written communication skills (i.e, business writing, presentation building & delivery, executive briefings)
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate with senior cross-functional stakeholders to drive shared outcomes
• Experience working with ETL pipelines a plus