Data Scientist (Economist)  

Get to know our Team:

A diverse and close-knit team, with backgrounds ranging from economics, neuroscience, psychology, business and even a published book author! We work closely with multiple countries and functions to understand and quickly address different business needs through a combination of data, observation, intuition, and rapid experimentation.

Get to know the Role:

The team takes on some of the most challenging and fascinating problems in transport, logistics, and the space around. We apply both qualitative and quantitative techniques to ensure that our passengers reliably get a ride and make a positive impact to our drivers and merchants and their families. We promote a culture where we enjoy raising the bar constantly for ourselves and others, and that strongly supports the freedom to explore and innovate.

The day-to-day activities:

• Develop a deep behavioral understanding of our passengers, drivers, and merchants based on econometric analysis, geo-spatial visualizations, user interviews, and cultural understanding of our relevant markets.
• Translate these understandings into actionable, creative insights that improve the user experience, including but not limited to optimizing prices, incentives and promotions that our passengers and drivers receive.
• Testing and validating the insights via rapid experimentation and deployment, and working effectively with tech and product teams to translate validated insights into scaled-up, deployed products.

• At least 3 years of work experience in Economics, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Computer Science, or related fields.

• Willing to travel around South East Asia to talk to and observe our users and collaborate with local teams.

• Self-motivated, independent learner, yet effective collaborator who has a knack of presenting complex subjects clearly and coherently to non-domain experts.

• Thorough relevant experience or academic training, developed a balance of right-brain and left-brain competencies, spanning a keen appreciation of human behaviour (e.g. deep interests in economics, sociology, anthropology and/or psychology), to data-driven analysis (e.g. randomised control trials, econometric tools).