Data Scientist, Decisions - Express Drive
San Francisco, CA
Full Time Senior-level / Expert USD 162K - 180K
Lyft
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Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. As a member of the Science team, you will work in a dynamic environment, where we embrace moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation. Data Scientists take on a variety of problems ranging from shaping critical business decisions to building algorithms that power our internal and external products.
This role is for the Express Drive team within the Fleet organization.
Lyft’s Fleet business started in 2016 with the mission of powering the world’s best transportation through fleet services that our customers can trust and depend on. Fleet supports Lyft’s drivers and riders by providing access to rental vehicles for drivers to earn both on and off of Lyft’s rideshare platform and by offering trusted and convenient car rental services for all Lyft users. Our Fleet team will lead Lyft’s efforts in a future built on electric vehicles and eventually autonomous vehicles.
The Express Drive program provides gig rentals to drivers and is building the capability to manage large fleets of vehicles for businesses, including buying and selling vehicles. We currently provide weekly vehicle rentals in over 35 regions across the country, offering a variety of vehicle types including hybrid and electric vehicles.
Responsibilities:
- Leverage data to build analytic frameworks to shape product and business cases for the Express Drive vehicle rental program
- Partner with product managers, engineers, and operators to translate analytical insights into decisions and action
- Design and analyze experiments; communicate results and act on launch decisions
- Develop analytical frameworks to monitor business and product performance
Experience:
- Degree in a quantitative field (advanced degrees preferred), or relevant work experience
- Professional or educational experience with engineering or hard science fields. Hands-on experience with hardware engineering or hardware products preferred.
- 6+ years of industry or research experience in a data science or analytics role
- Proficiency in SQL - able to write structured and efficient queries on large data sets
- Experience in programming, especially with data science and visualization libraries in Python or R
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners
Benefits:
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Note: For this role, candidates must reside in states registered for Flexdrive Services LLC.
This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.
The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $162,000 - $180,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.
Flexdrive is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Flexdrive does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. Flexdrive also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Flexdrive will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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