Staff Data Scientist (Dynamic Pricing)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid schedule with in-office work required at least three days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays

Base salary: $182,000–$228,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a car-sharing marketplace connecting guests with trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France.

What you will do

• Lead dynamic pricing model development from problem framing through deployment, experimentation, and iteration.
• Develop demand models incorporating pacing, lead-time dynamics, seasonality, and price elasticity.
• Build causal inference and experimentation frameworks that measure effects on marketplace health, host earnings, and guest conversion.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into deployable modeling solutions and influence product strategy.
• Write production-ready Python code and own model deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Drive standards for reproducibility, MLOps, and scientific rigor across the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience and an advanced degree in a quantitative field.
• Deep expertise in statistics, econometrics, machine learning, and optimization applied to pricing or prediction problems.
• Strong causal inference experience, including experiment design and quasi-experimental methods.
• Understanding of economics, supply–demand dynamics, and elasticity modeling.
• Proficiency in Python, fluency in SQL, and experience with large-scale data.
• Exceptional communication skills for presenting complex modeling work to technical and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• PhD in economics, statistics, machine learning, or another quantitative field.
• Marketplace or platform experience, including structural modeling, market design, dynamic programming, or advanced statistical methods.
• Experience shipping pricing or optimization systems to production.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure, and familiarity with Airflow or ML orchestration tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid employees receive in-office lunch, snacks, and activities.
• Equity, employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus retirement employer matching.
• Learning and development stipend, travel credit, host matching program, and cell phone and internet stipend.
• Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.