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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 Marketplace Lab team functions like an incubator for solutions to the problems confronting Grab's marketplaces. We seek to develop and test new ideas that lead to step-wise shifts in the efficiency and growth of our marketplaces. To do so, we prototype data science solutions for marketplace problems that continually recur, and work closely with product and business teams to experimentally validate them in our markets. Above all, we rely on a mix of strong marketplace understanding, business judgment, and technical competency to ideate, build and test new solutions. The solutions we build and the insights we learn fundamentally reshape Grab's marketplace strategy and operations so that we can leave a lasting, positive impact to consumers, drivers and merchants in Southeast Asia. We promote a culture of innovation by giving members the freedom to explore and advocate for new ideas. We are a growth-oriented team and enjoy raising the bar constantly for ourselves and others.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for an Data Scientist/Economist to join our Marketplace Strategy & Economics - Growth team. In this important role, you will use your knowledge in economics and data science to drive growth strategies across our marketplace.

You will be reporting to our Lead Economist (Data Scientist) and to be based in our Petaling Jaya office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• you will design and deploy sophisticated economic and econometric models to decode user behavior, predict market dynamics, and identify the most promising new levers for growth
• You will be a strategic partner to our Product, Engineering, Marketing teams. You will design, instrument, and analyze A/B tests and quasi-experiments that shape our global growth roadmap. Your work will provide the definitive "so what?" on the impact of our biggest bets
• You will lead research projects to answer big, ambiguous questions about our marketplace. Your insights on topics like network effects, user lifecycle value, and incentive structures will inform multi-year strategy
• You will act as domain authority on causal inference and measurement for Growth initiatives. You will ensure we make decisions based on a true understanding of cause and effect, not just correlation
• You will improve the team's technical bar by mentoring junior data scientists and economists, sharing your expertise, and pioneering new analytical methodologies and best practices

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related quantitative field
• At least 4 years of industry experience in a role such as data science, strategy, research scientist.
• Experienced in microeconomics models, econometrics and able to apply theory to real-world marketplace problems.
• Proficiency in statistical programming language (Python or R) and associated data science libraries (e.g. pandas, statsmodels, scikit-learn).
• Experience with big data technologies (SQL, Spark, Hadoop) – ability to work with and manipulate large datasets.
• Experience in causal inference and experimental design. Familiarity with quasi-experimental techniques (e.g. regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences)
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills

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.