Data Scientist, Pricing Analytics

Hybrid work 

Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco, Denver, Ankara, Dublin, Mexico City and Melbourne. 

This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub.

About you

You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering. 

About this role 

In the Data organization at Udemy, we’re passionate about transforming the future of education using data. We’re looking for fun, collaborative, self-motivated data scientists with an insatiable sense of curiosity and a knack for asking the right questions. 

Our ideal candidate is an analytically creative thinker who is unafraid of ambiguity, has a track record of tackling difficult technical challenges, and has a pragmatic and relentless focus on driving meaningful business impact. 

We believe in building diverse, collaborative teams in which each person brings unique skills, knowledge, and experience to the table. If this opportunity sounds exciting to you, then read on!

At Udemy, data scientists generally belong to one of three career tracks:

• Insights: Focused on analytics, data visualization, A/B testing, and stakeholder partnership.
• Inference: Focused on casual or statistical inference for interpretation of data.
• Algorithms: Focused on machine learning and building production data products.

For this posting, we are looking for a Data Scientist in the Insights track to partner with our Pricing & Promotions team at Udemy.

The Pricing & Promotions team at Udemy is focused optimizing our pricing and promotions cadence to ensure the vibrancy of our large consumer marketplace. In this role, you will work with stakeholder in Marketing and Product to drive data-informed decisions about how we price courses, measure the performance of our econometric pricing algorithms, create dashboards to drive revenue maximization efforts, and suggest strategic changes in our pricing and promotions strategy based on insights from user data. Success in this role will require a combination of strong communication and collaboration skills, sharp product sense, a customer-centric mindset, and solid technical data science skills.

What you'll be doing

• Serve as the embedded product data science partner in a cross-functional team responsible for pricing at Udemy, including engineers, PM, and Marketers. 
• Work with the team to develop a rich program of price experimentation and A/B testing to improve the revenue performance of our consumer marketplace including metric creation, experiment design, power analysis, and analysis of experiment results.
• Work with the Pricing & Promotions team to quantify, understand, and prioritize improvements to our pricing system. 
• Drive data-informed decision making within the Pricing team by equipping PMs, Marketers and engineers with self-service analytics tools, and conducting ad hoc analyses and causal studies for the team. 
• Build metrics & dashboards for the Pricing team to understand marketplace behaviors, and help identify challenges and opportunities for the team based on patterns in user data. 
• Build metrics to measure price elasticities, average selling prices, and conversion rates in our marketplace, and use those metrics to help brainstorm potential price experiments to drive revenue gains.

What you’ll have

• Expert-level SQL ability and proficiency in Python data science libraries.
• Strong business intuition and judgment, and experience applying prioritization frameworks to your work (e.g., RICE, Eisenhower matrix).
• Exceptional data storytelling and data visualization ability. Experience with Mode and/or Tableau is a plus. 
• Broad knowledge of applied statistics, experimental design, and analysis of A/B tests.
• 1-3+ years of relevant hands-on experience in product or business analytics roles.
• Experience working with Github and CI/CD code review processes. 
• Nice to have: Experience building automated data pipelines using tools like Airflow and dbt.
• Ability and willingness to work autonomously, relentlessly prioritize, and collaborate with team members in U.S. time zones as well as globally in Turkey, Ireland, and India as needed.

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

•  We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.
  
  
• Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.
  
  
• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.
  
  
• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. 

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Udemy Mexico Benefits

Our benefits are designed to support you and your family with the protection and care you need, ensuring easy access to the right coverage when it matters most. Here’s a snapshot of the key benefits for full-time Udemates based in Mexico:

Core Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Includes maternity, private hospital, dental, and vision benefits for employees and eligible dependents.
• Life Insurance: 12x monthly base salary, with a Free Cover Limit of MXN 7.5 million.

Financial Benefits:

• Grocery Vouchers: Monthly vouchers valued at $2,200 MXN.
• Teleworking Allowance: $800 MXN monthly.
• Savings Fund: Both you and Udemy contribute 13% of your monthly salary, capped to 1.3 times the UMA value.
• Christmas Bonus: Equivalent to 30 days of your current salary.
• Vacation Bonus: 25% premium on your vacation days.

Time Off Benefits:

• Holidays: Udemy observes 12 public holidays in Mexico.
• Annual Leave: 12 days of annual leave per year.
• Sick Leave: 10 days of paid sick leave per year.
• Family Bonding: 12 weeks of maternity leave or partner leave for bonding after the birth or adoption of a child.
• Bereavement Leave: Up to 20 working days for the loss of a loved one.

Wellbeing Benefits:

• Maven (Reproductive Health): Unlimited virtual appointments and $25,000 lifetime benefit for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy.
• Modern Health (Therapy and Coaching): 10 sessions with therapists and 10 sessions with coaches per year.
• Origin (Financial Planning): Free access to Certified Financial Planners for you and your spouse.
• Workplace Options (EAP): 24/7 support for family, stress, caregiving, financial, and legal issues.

Additional Perks:

• Udemy Courses: Free and unlimited access to Udemy’s Marketplace and Udemy Business.

Home Office Reimbursement: $500 one-time reimbursement and $35 monthly for work-from-home needs.