Senior Economist (Data Scientist)

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

• How do we ensure customers get their food on time, even when it rains?

• How can we reduce driver partners' wait times at restaurants?

The Regional Marketplace Strategy team takes on a set of diverse and challenging questions in the mobility, logistics and economics space within Grab. We focus on improving efficiency while balancing Grab’s multi-sided marketplace across our ecosystem of driver partners, customers, merchant partners, and agents. Our work sees us improve experiences for our customers, contributes to providing growing income opportunities for our driver partners and merchants, and inspires growth, efficiency and profitability for Grab overall. 

We work with tech teams and operations teams across all of our 8 markets in Southeast Asia. Our core work covers pricing, fulfillment experience, driver retention & incentives and customer retention - but our scope frequently expands to solve issues beyond these topics.

Get to Know the Role 

As a Senior Economist, you will be an important member of the Regional Marketplace Strategy team. Your primary responsibility will be to build a comprehensive framework to dissect the challenges we face, conduct research to assess, support, and inform the product direction, and produce a strategy based on your findings. You will also be expected to leverage your influencing and partner management skills to align the strategy across different teams. 

This role is important to shaping product strategy from a business perspective. You will report to Lead Economist (Data Scientist) which onsite working base in Bangkok office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will be representative of strategy partner for some of Grab’s products, becoming the regional expert on a set of main products.
• Provide strategic advice & expertise on business-critical issues through rigorous analysis paired with structured, big picture thinking. 
• Diagnose problems, identify main solutions and lead agreement on partners.
• Conduct data-driven research and analyses to uncover new insights that inform product strategy.
• Collaborate with regional product teams and local country teams to support the launch of new features and optimization of existing demand, supply, and market clearance levers, through experimentation, causal inference, or other suitable analytical methods.
• Present strategic opportunity assessments & analysis to leadership.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 2+ years of working experience in Economics, Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Management Consulting, or strategy roles that involve quantitative fields.
• Analytical knowledge - Prior experience handling large, high velocity data; familiar with econometrics, common statistical, analytical and ML techniques.
• Foundation in experimentation and causal inference techniques.
• Experience with SQL, and Python or R to implement data analytics or data science techniques on large datasets.
• Passion, and energy to fast learning and solve ambiguous problems that may evolve in scope or complexity; Ability to translate ideas into technical solutions.
• Present complex subjects coherently to diverse audiences comprising generalists and specialists. Convincing partners to agree and lead decisions within the space of a meeting.
• You will require to travel and subject to business requirement.
• Fluent in English.

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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.