What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Scientist, Ads & Offers position at Uber Advertising?
About The Role
Every day thousands of advertisers use our Ads and Offers platform to reach users on the Uber platform to grow their businesses. The Uber Ads & Offers team builds consumer products that connect our eaters and riders to relevant businesses in engaging and delightful ways. We also build tools to help merchants, large and small, generate demand via Ads and Offers to grow their businesses.
As a Sr. Scientist on the team, you will guide how ads and offers are integrated into a myriad of different surfaces across Uber Rides and Eats. You will be a thought partner for a wide breadth of topics ranging from optimization of existing formats to ideation and implementation of entirely new ones to interactions between ads and non-ad products. This is a highly visible, cross-functional role where you'll combine technical expertise with product intuition to shape key pillars of Uber's strategy.
We're seeking an experienced scientist with strong analytical acumen, technical depth, and a passion for solving complex, real-world problems.
What You'll Do
Every day thousands of advertisers use our Ads and Offers platform to reach users on the Uber platform to grow their businesses. The Uber Ads & Offers team builds consumer products that connect our eaters and riders to relevant businesses in engaging and delightful ways. We also build tools to help merchants, large and small, generate demand via Ads and Offers to grow their businesses.
As a Sr. Scientist on the team, you will guide how ads and offers are integrated into a myriad of different surfaces across Uber Rides and Eats. You will be a thought partner for a wide breadth of topics ranging from optimization of existing formats to ideation and implementation of entirely new ones to interactions between ads and non-ad products. This is a highly visible, cross-functional role where you'll combine technical expertise with product intuition to shape key pillars of Uber's strategy.
We're seeking an experienced scientist with strong analytical acumen, technical depth, and a passion for solving complex, real-world problems.
What You'll Do
- Lead analytical initiatives for the Ads and Offers space, collaborating with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, and marketing to drive strategy and priorities.
- Design, implement, and analyze experiments within the Uber Eats and Uber Rides apps.
- Perform analytical deep dives to understand product performance and to identify improvement opportunities.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of scalable data science tools and methodologies.
- Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical leaders to influence decisions and product direction.
- A degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field.
- 4 years of relevant industry experience as a Data Scientist, Applied Scientist, or equivalent (2 years if holding a Ph.D.).
- Experience in experimental design and analysis.
- Strong analytical skills, with experience extracting user behavior insights from large datasets.
- Knowledge of underlying mathematical foundations of statistics, optimization, economics, and analytics.
- Proficiency with tools such as Python or R for exploratory data analysis and modeling.
- 5 years of relevant industry experience as a Data Scientist, Applied Scientist, or equivalent.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Experience in algorithm prototyping and development.
- Exceptional communication skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.
Salary : $183,000 - $203,000