Data Scientist - Marketplace Economics

A rapidly scaling consumer marketplace is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to own and optimize the economics of its marketplace. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role working directly with senior leadership to shape pricing, promotions, product scheduling, and overall marketplace performance. You’ll operate in a fast, experimental environment where insights can be shipped the same day.

What You’ll Work On

• Own the analytical framework for marketplace economics: pricing, promotions, scheduling, demand, and margin trade-offs
• Design and interpret experiments to understand marketplace behavior and ambiguous results
• Improve user acquisition, payment authorization rates, and promotion efficiency
• Build models that quantify economic trade-offs across shopper volume, demand, and margin
• Partner closely with engineering and leadership to rapidly test and deploy insights
• Create lightweight automations or instrumentation to support experimentation (AI-assisted development welcome)

• 3-4+ years in data science applied to consumer apps, gaming, marketplaces, or performance marketing
• Strong economic reasoning about systems (pricing, virtual economies, marketplace optimization)
• Advanced SQL and Python skills
• Strong statistical modeling depth beyond basic A/B testing
• Experience in fast-moving, high-intensity environments (startup or similar)
• Degree in math, statistics, economics, physics, or another quantitative field
• End-to-end ownership mindset and comfort with autonomy

Nice to Have

• Experience applying game-economy or marketplace-pricing concepts
• Exposure to media buying or user-acquisition analytics
• Ability to ship small engineering automations
• Background in applied economics, decision science, or game theory

Keywords: Data Science, Marketplace, Python, SQL, AB Testing, Pricing