Senior Scientist, Ads & Offers
Uber
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About the Role
Ads is one of the fastest growing lines of businesses at Uber. Every day thousands of advertisers use our Advertising platform to reach users on the Uber platform to help 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 Ads Surfaces team, you will guide how ads 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 ad 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 ads strategy. We're seeking an experienced scientist with strong analytical acumen, technical depth, and a passion for solving complex, real-world problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead analytical initiatives for the Mobility Ads business, 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice to Have
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience as a Data Scientist, Applied Scientist, or equivalent.
- Prior experience working on Ads.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Experience in algorithm prototyping and development.
- Exceptional communication skills across technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.
Qualifications
- Educational background in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, or a related field.
Benefits & Perks
- Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program.
- May be offered an equity award & other types of compensation.
- Various benefits as detailed at https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
Working at Uber
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform
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Location
San Francisco, CA
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Taxi and Ridesharing Services
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