Senior Data Scientist (Analytics)

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team:

The Analytics team's mission is to use data and experimentation to advance product innovation. We love building hacky products to test and iterate what's best for our customers. As we ship multiple products every week, it means we have to fine-tune models, run and evaluate hundreds of experiments weekly! We are looking for experienced data scientists to build a center of data excellence for Product & Experimentation in a diverse range of tech families. 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 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 Role:

Reporting to the Senior Analytics Manager, you will work closely with different 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.

This role is based in Petaling Jaya and onsite.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will analyze existing data and recommend new product ideas to address impactful customer problems based on business objectives.
• You will identify trends, spot anomalies, and investigate their root causes using data.
• You will utilize your data analysis and visualization skills to present insights and tell a compelling story to a non-technical audience.
• You will collaborate with stakeholders to align on key product metrics and propose experimentation strategies, including A/B testing.
• You will design and manage data specifications for new products, ensuring accurate data collection in collaboration with engineering teams.
• You will mentor junior team members, promote high standards in data handling, and develop scalable frameworks to address recurring problems efficiently.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need:

• At least 4 years of experience working in data-related or quantitative fields, including Analytics and Applied Data Science
• Fluent with SQL, Python, R, or other scripting/programming languages.
• Experienced with working with very large datasets
• Data visualization and storytelling skills. Experience creating dashboards using Tableau or other visualization tools. Knowledge of Azure tool stack (Databricks, PowerBI, Azure Data Explorer)
• Effective communication and the ability to present complex subjects coherently to diverse audiences comprising generalists and specialists.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.