Principal Data Scientist | Pricing

WELCOME TO OLXAt OLX, we work together to build a more sustainable world through trade.We make it safe, smart, and convenient to buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and more. Our colleagues around the world help to serve millions of people every month, through its well-loved consumer brands including OLX, Otodom, Property24.Join OLX and see how far you can go.JOIN OLX AND WORK ON PRICINGWe invite you to join us on a critical and exciting mission! Your job will be to be the technical expert tasked with establishing smart pricing models and policies for all OLX customer units (Motors, Real Estate, Goods, Jobs, and Services). Pricing that is fair for the customers, proportional to the market value we deliver, and that works for OLX. This is a unique opportunity! You will be part of a strategic movement inside the company, working in an area with a very significant business impact!Your job will be to provide technical guidance to a team of Product, Commercial, and Data Science experts working in the areas of pricing and pricing optimization. You will be responsible for fueling the team with technical inspiration and mentoring the team members to explore the newest technologies in Causal Inference and Decision Science while delivering business value. You will be exposed to key stakeholders, and you will have direct contact with internal customers. You will have the freedom to design experiments across different lines of business and test things. Most importantly, you will also witness how your work impacts the day-to-day business and the growth of OLX.Finally, you will be a mentor and a thought leader for the practice of Data Science and Analytics across the organizations that constitute OLX, finding opportunities to have an impact not only for the business and our users but also for the community of Data Scientists spread across our hubs.What you will be doing:Work in the Data Science team, focusing on Pricing Optimization, from a platform and marketplace perspective.Leading projects and initiatives in collaboration with local Data Science and Data Engineering teams, as well as Product and Commercial leaders.You will maintain strong relationships with stakeholders. This means asking a lot of questions to commercial people and translating their requirements into achievable projects. It also means collaborating with other teams, like infrastructure and data engineering to get things done in an elegant and timely manner.Work with Product Analytics to track the KPIs of different ML use cases and measure the impact on our customers.Partner with the Experimentation team to integrate the KPIs and their proxies into the Experimentation (A/B testing) platform.Helping to formulate data science solutions in order to improve business jointly with product managers and engineers.Ensuring successful achievement of research and development objectives through stakeholder management and mentoring of more junior Data Scientists.Working on optimizing the models according to the requirements of the specific use case and collaborating with other team members to bring in production and scale machine learning solutions.Measuring the impact of your models against company goals.Working in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software against schedules.You will work in multi-functional teams, in a diverse, multinational environment.Most importantly you will have fun working with us :)Who are we looking for:Very strong analytical skills. Like really strong! So strong that truth and light are your two middle names. Decision Science is your bread and butter.Experience in the areas of Pricing and Pricing optimization, in a commercial setting.Knowledge of Causal Inference and strong statistical skills (e.g., design of experiments and hypothesis testing).Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives that drive scalable impact.An eye for proactively identifying opportunities for impact in multiple domains and in collaboration with multiple teams.Ability to envision the future and articulate it to a broad community of Product and Commercial leaders as well as other key stakeholders.A deep understanding of machine learning techniques and experience applying them to solve business problems.Track record in leading cross-functional initiatives that span across the organization.A strong engineering background with good knowledge of Python and exposure to one more programming language (Kotlin, Java, etc), as well as engineering best practices.Experience writing SQL queries and handling large amounts of data.Proficient in English with excellent written and oral communication skills!Strong presentation skills.Able to work in diverse, multi-functional teams with people from different backgrounds.Nice to have:Experience with cloud-based tools for production use (e.g., AWS Athena, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Spectrum, AWS Kinesis) or equivalent.Experience building large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with open-source data processing frameworks like Spark.Experience with platforms for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring workflows (e.g. Apache Airflow).Experience driving initiatives such as Tech Radar for Data Science and interacting with external groups (e.g. Amazon ML Solutions Lab or similar) to formulate and progress the Data Science Tech agendaWhat we offer:Permanent contractSalary + annual bonus up to 20% of your annual gross salaryWork with and impact all OLX services in EuropeTrain and conference budget and free access to Udemy coursesHealth insurance and life insuranceMacBook Pro along with necessary accessories to make your work comfortable100% remote work (and the possibility to work from our office in Lisboa)Why join OLX?At OLX, we invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate; with opportunities, training, and leadership behaviors a key focus for all. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLXAt OLX, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We strongly encourage people of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.If you are excited about this role, and your past experiences do not align perfectly with every criteria asked for in the job description, we would still like you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities across the business, and we'd like to hear from you.

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