Data Scientist, Decisions

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

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.
• 4+ 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:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

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 $139,500-$155,000. 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.