Lead Data Scientist (Analytics) - Fulfilment
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Grab
Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp. It provides everyday services like Deliveries, Mobility, Financial Services, and More.Company Description
Life at Grab
At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.
Job Description
Get to know the team
The Fulfilment Tech Family is at the heart of enabling Grab to outserve our consumers and partners in different businesses and marketplaces across Southeast Asia. Our mission is to offer the best-in-class products and experiences to our driver partners as to increase adoption and engagement of our services. Improve driver partner opportunities and efficiency in order to fulfill consumer orders without fail, rain or shine. And to create efficient marketplaces by determining an optimal price that is both sustainable and loved by our partners and consumers.
The Fulfilment Product Analytics Team advances product innovation with analytics and experimentation best practices. We ship a large number of features and that means tuning models, evaluating changes and running experiments to drive better outcomes for our driver partners and millions of customers across South East Asia.
Your role is to guide a data-first approach to product thinking, design controlled experiments and be objective while evaluating results, all of this while working with stakeholders to evaluate new and innovative product and business ideas! You will help developers, designers & product managers across the company with recommendations on how to learn from unexpected results, study underlying causes for them and iterate on the next set of products to build for our users.
Get to know the job
You will be working closely with various teams within a business line (Product, Business, Engineering, Design and Data Science) to understand data requirements, identify and track key metrics, and provide data-driven insights. You will also work with stakeholders to evaluate the feasibility of new business/product ideas and provide appropriate recommendations.
The Day-to-Day Activities
Understand business objectives and deepdive into existing data to recommend new product ideas to solve for the most impactful customer problems
Use data to identify trends, spot anomalies and delve deeper into their root causes
Use your number-crunching and slide-maker skills to use and present data beyond just numbers. Hone your data storytelling skills through visualisation techniques by building dashboards and presenting insights to a non-technical audience!
Discuss and align with stakeholders on key product metrics, design and propose experimentation strategies
Launch A/B tests, analyze experiment results and provide recommendations
Design and own frontend and backend data specs for new products, while collaborating with engineering teams to ensure accurate and timely data collection
Develop and maintain data pipelines to fulfill product reporting requirements
Mentor junior team members, supporting their professional development in both hard and soft skills
Identify frequently occurring hypotheses and problem statements that can be generalised into common patterns. Develop scalable analytical frameworks and solutions to allow for solving repetitive problems in a more efficient manner
Role-model high standards of rigour in how we do measurements, experimentation, analyses and recommendations. Safeguard the integrity of how data is used and understood to ensure we maintain objectivity in our reasoning, actions and decision making
Evaluate the feasibility of developing new products, participate in user researches to validate customer problems
Qualifications
The Must-Haves
6+ years of experience working in data-related and/or quantitative fields, including but not limited to Analytics and Applied Data Science
Fluent with SQL, Python, R or other scripting/programming languages to problem-solve. Experienced with working with very large datasets
Strong data visualization and storytelling skills. Experience in creating dashboards using PowerBI / Superset / Tableau or other visualisation tools
Exposure to data pipeline creation and data engineering tools such as Chimera, Airflow, Presto, Databricks etc
Effective communication and collaboration skills and the ability to present complex subjects coherently to diverse audiences comprising generalists and specialists
Self-motivator and an ability to learn independently
Ability to deliver on tight timelines and move quickly with cross-functional teams to partner or lead decision making while maintaining high attention to detail
A culture role model of our 4Hs: Honour, Humility, Hunger and Heart
The Nice-to-Haves
Relevant industry experience (preferably in an Internet or ‘Direct to Consumer’ company with high velocity data and scaled controlled experiments) and/or prior experience with Product Management or business-facing operations will be a plus
Experience with designing, conducting and analysing controlled A/B experiments
Prior experience with supervised (eg : predictive modeling - regressions/classifications) and unsupervised (eg : clustering, segmentation) ML algorithms
Additional Information
Our Commitment
We recognize that with these individual attributes come different workplace challenges, and we will work with Grabbers to address them in our journey towards creating inclusion at Grab for all Grabbers.
About Grab
Grab is the leading superapp platform in Southeast Asia, providing everyday services that matter to consumers. Today, the Grab app has been downloaded onto millions of mobile devices, giving users access to over 9 million drivers, merchants, and agents. Grab offers a wide range of on-demand services in the region, including mobility, food, package and grocery delivery services, mobile payments, and financial services across 428 cities in eight countries
Join us today to drive Southeast Asia forward, together.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: A/B testing Airflow Clustering Databricks Data pipelines Data visualization Engineering Machine Learning Pipelines Power BI Predictive modeling Python R SQL Superset Tableau
Perks/benefits: Career development Team events
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