Hiring: Staff Data Scientist – Merchandising, Assortment, Pricing & Planning Location: Remote Experience: 10 Years About the Role We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to lead high-impact Data Science & Decision Science initiatives across merchandising, assortment, pricing, promotions, forecasting, and planning. As a Staff-level individual contributor, you will act as a technical authority and strategic thought partner , building scalable and explainable models that directly influence revenue, margin, and growth. Key Responsibilities Merchandising & Assortment Build assortment optimization and merchandising models. Work with demand elasticity, customer behavior, cannibalization, and cross-sell/upsell dynamics. Develop product configuration, bundling, and catalog optimization frameworks. Apply causal inference, A/B testing, uplift modeling, and quasi-experiments. Pricing & Promotions Develop pricing and promotion effectiveness models. Measure lift, cannibalization, halo effects, incrementality, and ROI. Build frameworks using A/B testing, MMM, and causal modeling. Partner with Pricing, Product, Revenue, and GTM teams on commercial decisions. Forecasting & Planning Build and productionize demand forecasting and planning models. Incorporate seasonality, pricing, promotions, customer cohorts, assortment, and external signals. Drive scenario planning, budget optimization, and long-range forecasting. Develop simulations to evaluate revenue, margin, acquisition, and retention trade-offs. Advanced Analytics & ML Architect and deploy ML and optimization models using: Time Series Regression Tree-based models Probabilistic models Recommendation systems Optimization techniques Own the complete ML lifecycle from exploration and feature engineering through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.



Ensure models are explainable, auditable, and trusted by senior stakeholders. Technical Leadership Mentor senior Data Scientists and elevate modeling and experimentation standards. Influence AI and analytics roadmaps. Communicate complex insights effectively to executive and non-technical stakeholders. What We're Looking For 10 years of experience in Data Science, Decision Science, or Applied ML. Strong experience in assortment, merchandising, pricing, promotions, or demand planning . Deep expertise in statistics, experimentation, causal inference, and predictive modeling. Strong proficiency in Python/R, SQL, and ML libraries such as Scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, or TensorFlow. Experience deploying ML models in large-scale cloud environments — AWS, Azure, or GCP . Proven ability to operate as a senior IC with significant cross-functional business impact. ⭐ Nice to Have Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) Bayesian methods Advanced optimization techniques GenAI-assisted analytics / AI-driven decision systems Experience supporting global GTM, Pricing, or Finance teams Strong business storytelling and executive presence What Success Looks Like ✅ Merchandising, assortment, pricing, and promotions are driven by measurable ROI and explainable models. ✅ Forecasting and planning accuracy improves materially. ✅ Product, Pricing, and GTM teams rely on Data Science as a key decision-making system. ✅ The Data Science organization perks from your technical mentorship and thought leadership. Interested? If you have strong expertise in Retail Data Science Pricing/Assortment Decision Science , we'd love to hear from you. Hiring DataScience StaffDataScientist MachineLearning DecisionScience RetailAnalytics Pricing Merchandising AssortmentOptimization DemandForecasting CausalInference Python SQL AI BangaloreJobs TechJobs HiringNow

📌 Staff Data Scientist (India)
🏢 NextMantra AI
📍 India