About the Role

The Global Intelligence team works to understand the strategy and performance of Uber and other companies with similar products through a combination of external and internal data. Uber operates in a diverse array of markets and product categories filled with rapidly evolving competing options; assessing the success or failure of a product or strategy depends on understanding this context. Doing this, and doing it well, is an interesting and difficult problem.

The team uses its expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, economics, and business to build scalable data products. We are looking for experienced candidates with a passion for solving new and difficult problems with data. You will build out and own competitive models/metrics, provide key insights, conduct deep dive analysis to understand new opportunities, and empower teams to make more informed business and strategy decisions with competitive intelligence.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

What the Candidate Will Do

• Use data to understand competitors' performance and to identify improvement opportunities.
• Build statistical, optimization, and machine learning models for applications including pricing, targeting, and experimentation.
• Present findings to senior management to inform business decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, and operations to drive competitor intelligence development end-to-end from ideation to productionization.

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors's degree in Statistics, Economics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields. (If an M.S. degree, a minimum of 1+ years of industry experience required and if Bachelor's degree, a minimum of 2+ years of industry experience as an Applied Scientist or equivalent).
• Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, machine learning, optimization, economics, and analytics.
• Knowledge of experimental design and analysis.
• Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and model development.
• Ability to use Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.
• Proficiency in languages and tools like SQL, R, and Spark.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience as an applied scientist or similar
• Experience in competitive intelligence.
• Experience in algorithm development and prototyping.
• Advanced knowledge of statistical methods, causal inference, and machine learning.
• Strong communication skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Ability to drive clarity on the best modeling or analytic solution for a business objective.
• Ability to work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to execute decisions.
• Ambition and enthusiasm to seek opportunities to build value.

For Canada-based roles: Uber may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our recruiting process; however, Uber employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions. This advertisement relates to a current, existing vacancy.

For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD$173,000 per year - CAD$192,000 per year. 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://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.