Principal Data Scientist Inference Pricing at Udemy

Title: Principal Data Scientist, Inference (Pricing)
Location: Remote
About this role
We’re excited to say that this is a fully remote role with eligibility to work anywhere in the United States. While you will get together with your team on a semi-regular basis (monthly or quarterly, depending on the team), we want you to thrive wherever you work best! 
About Udemy
Udemy is the world’s largest education platform with more than 30 million monthly visitors.  Through our Consumer and Enterprise businesses, Udemy creates new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world.
The Udemy consumer marketplace offers thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages and provides the tools learners and instructors need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential.
For companies, Udemy Business (UB) offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, as well as the ability to host and distribute their own content. Our enterprise platform is among the fastest growing SaaS businesses in the world.  UB has more than 10,000 customers and serves the majority of the Fortune 100.
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While the ideal location is San Francisco, we are also able to hire remotely.
Udemy is looking for a Principal Data Scientist for our growing Monetization Decision Science team. This team is a critical partner to the company’s overall Pricing and Promotions teams working on optimizing marketplace pricing to grow the business by delivering the right value to its customers.
Our Montenization Decision Science team relies on quantitative methods and business intuition, and utilize a combination of modeling, experimentation, and causal inference methods to drive pricing related decisions at Udemy.
Here Are Some Questions You Could Be Working On:
What is the right price for a course? When should we make price changes?
How does price sensitivity vary across different markets and course characteristics?
How often and when should we promote courses? What is the right level of discount?
How does pricing in our marketplace impact other lines of our business (e.g. B2B offerings)?
How can we balance between long term and short term effects of price changes?
Here Is What You Will Be Doing:
Be a subject matter expert and thought leader in the area of pricing and promotions
Partner with cross-functional leaders to shape the team’s roadmap and drive execution
Manage the day-to-day operations of the Monetization Decision Science team
Provide both technical and strategic guidance to team members  
Develop end-to-end modeling solutions for price optimization, build and maintain relevant data pipelines and workflows
Lead experimentation and causal analysis (beyond standard A/B tests) to support pricing decisions and improve pricing models
Define metrics and build dashboards to track health of the pricing system
Proactively influence prioritization through data-driven insights
Effectively communicate and present to both technical and non-technical audiences
Build Udemy’s technical brand through talks, blog posts, and publications
We Are Excited About You Because You Have:
6+ years of relevant experience preferably in the pricing and promotions domain (or 4+ years with post-graduate education such as MS or PhD.) and a background in statistical/ML modeling, optimization, causal inference/econometrics, and experimental design
Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders
Strong business and product intuition as well as judgment
Strong data storytelling and data visualization ability
Strong SQL ability and proficiency with 1+ programming languages (Python strongly preferred)
Familiarity with data pipeline building (e.g. in Hive, Spark) and workflow tools (e.g. Airflow)
Ability to work autonomously and has strong interest to take ownership and lead while effectively partnering with stakeholders.
Nice To Haves:
Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g. Looker, Chartio, or Tableau)
People leadership experience
Minimum Salary:  $157,000 Per Year
We understand that not everyone will match the above qualifications 100%. If your background isn't perfectly aligned but you feel you would be a great addition to the team, we'd love to hear from you.
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