Data Scientist - Decisions, Mapping
Lyft is committed to improving people's lives through superior transportation solutions. As a Data Scientist on the Mapping team, you will enhance the quality of recommended routes and travel time estimations by analyzing spatial data and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive impactful decisions.
Responsibilities
- Leverage data and analytic frameworks to identify opportunities for growth and efficiency
- Partner with product managers, engineers, and operators to translate analytical insights into decisions and action, and implement products to drive business goals
- Design and analyze online experiments; communicate results and act on launch decisions
- Develop analytical frameworks to monitor business and product performance
- Establish metrics that measure the health of our products, as well as rider and driver experience
- Identify and drive impact and alignment, shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations
Skills
- Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, applied math, operations research or engineering
- 1+ years experience in a data science role or analytics role
- Proficiency in SQL - able to write structured and efficient queries on large data sets
- End-to-end experience with data, including querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
- Experience in programming, especially with data science and visualization libraries in Python or R, and machine learning libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras
- Experience in online experimentation and statistical analysis, and communicating results and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners
- Advanced degrees preferred
- Experience in applying machine learning techniques a plus (e.g. reinforcement learning) to solve customer problems (e.g. personalization, segmentation)
- Experience working with ETL pipelines a plus
Benefits
- Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
- RRSP plan to help save for your future
- In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
- Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
- Subsidized commuter benefits
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