What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scientist II, Uber Direct position at Uber?
About The Role
We're hiring a Scientist for the Uber Direct team-one of Uber's fastest-growing and most dynamic business lines. Uber Direct enables merchants, enterprises, and consumers to get anything delivered, from retail returns and prescription deliveries to cross-country shipments. This role offers a rare opportunity to help define a new category of delivery beyond food and mobility, and to reimagine what on-demand logistics can look like at global scale.
In this role, you will serve as a thought partner to cross-functional leaders and help set the scientific strategy for building a healthy, efficient, and scalable three-sided marketplace.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
What the Candidate Will Do
We're hiring a Scientist for the Uber Direct team-one of Uber's fastest-growing and most dynamic business lines. Uber Direct enables merchants, enterprises, and consumers to get anything delivered, from retail returns and prescription deliveries to cross-country shipments. This role offers a rare opportunity to help define a new category of delivery beyond food and mobility, and to reimagine what on-demand logistics can look like at global scale.
In this role, you will serve as a thought partner to cross-functional leaders and help set the scientific strategy for building a healthy, efficient, and scalable three-sided marketplace.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
What the Candidate Will Do
- Leverage Uber's data to build a best-in-class delivery experience for Uber's Connect business.
- Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights and effectively communicate findings to executives, business leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape product and business strategy.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to define and drive a roadmap of high-impact initiatives, ensuring that marketplace design, pricing, and fulfillment strategies are informed by rigorous analysis and competitive intelligence.
- Using SQL and Python / R to conduct analysis and produce insights
- Data visualization and communicating technical topics clearly
- Experimentation and stats foundations
- Experience in consumer marketplace companies
- Marketplace experimentation
- Excellent understanding of statistical principles backed by an academic foundation
- Modeling and causal inference
Salary : $144,000 - $179,000