Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
What You ll Be Doing
- Own and lead the applied data science roadmap pricing, forecasting, risk, attribution, lead scoring, and supply allocation.
- Ship models to production with tight experiment loops, and quantify impact on CM5%, utilization, CAC/LTV, and approvals/defaults.
- Launch Dynamic Pricing v2 for short-term and monthly subscriptions, and build STO Risk Engine v1 to scale responsible growth.
- Develop city/model-level demand & supply forecasts to optimize fleet utilization and procurement.
- Set up experimentation frameworks guardrails, sequential testing, unified performance definitions, and measurement cadence.
- Build and lead a high-performing DS team across Dubai and Cairo, embedding pods into squads and ensuring best practices in model health and governance.
- Partner with Data Engineering to strengthen MLOps feature stores, model registry, CI/CD, and monitoring.
- Codify model governance, documentation, and bias/fairness checks in line with SAMA expectations.
Desired Candidate Profile
8 12+ years of experience in Data Science/ML, including 3+ years leading teams.
- Proven track record of delivering pricing, forecasting, or risk models that drive measurable P&L impact.
- Deep expertise in at least two areas: marketplace pricing, credit/risk, forecasting, marketing measurement, or ops optimization.
- Strong in Python, SQL, MLflow (or similar), orchestration tools, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS).
- Product mindset able to translate CM1 CM5 and business constraints into clear model objectives and experiments.
- Exceptional collaboration skills you work closely with Product, Growth, Finance, and Ops to deliver real business outcomes.
- Nice to have: Experience in mobility, marketplace, or fintech industries; familiarity with BigQuery, dbt, real-time inference, and Arabic proficiency.