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

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