ABOUT UDEMY

Udemy is the world’s largest education platform with more than 30 million monthly visitors. Through our Consumer and Enterprise businesses, Udemy creates new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world.

The Udemy consumer marketplace offers thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages and provides the tools learners and instructors need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential.

For companies, Udemy Business (UB) offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, as well as the ability to host and distribute their own content. Our enterprise platform is among the fastest growing SaaS businesses in the world. UB has more than 10,000 customers and serves the majority of the Fortune 100.

We are proud to be recognized for our world class employee experience:

• Business Insider SF: Best Places to Work Bay Area

• Built In Colorado: Best Places to Work

• Best Workplaces (Great Place to Work List): #1 in Turkey

• Certified Best Place to Work: Dublin

• Fortune: Change the World Company

Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in Ankara, Turkey; Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Mountain View, California; Denver, Colorado; Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; New Delhi, India; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

VACCINE MANDATE (US ONLY)

Udemy is committed to keeping its employees, clients, and communities safe. Accordingly, we require all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if their work requires them to come into a Udemy office or come into close contact with others. If you are unable to get vaccinated due to a medical condition, disability, sincerely-held religious belief, or as otherwise required by applicable law, we will consider requests for accommodation.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Udemy is looking for a senior data scientist to partner with our Pricing and Monetization team to work on optimizing marketplace pricing which is critical to grow the business by delivering the right value to its customers. As a Senior Pricing Data scientist, you will rely on quantitative methods and business intuition, and utilize a combination of modeling, experimentation, and causal inference methods to drive the pricing related decisions at Udemy.

HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS YOU COULD BE WORKING ON:

• What is the right price for a course? When should we make price changes?

• How does price sensitivity vary across different market and course characteristics?

• How often and when should we promote courses? What is the right level of discount?

• How does pricing in our marketplace impact other lines of our business (e.g. B2B offerings)?

• How can we balance between long term and short term effects of price changes?

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to inform business direction

• Be a subject matter expert and thought leader in the area of pricing and help drive the data science roadmap

• Develop end-to-end modeling solutions for price optimization, build and maintain relevant data pipelines and workflows

• Lead experimentation and causal analysis (beyond standard A/B tests) to support pricing decisions and improve pricing models

• Define metrics and build dashboards to track health of the pricing system

• Proactively influence prioritization through data-driven insights

• Effectively communicate and present to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Provide technical mentorship to others

• Build Udemy’s technical brand through talks, blog posts, and publications

WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE:

• 4+ years of relevant experience or 2+ years of relevant experience with a post-graduate education such as PhD in a quantitative field. Experience in the pricing domain is preferred

• Hands on experience in statistical/ML modeling, optimization, causal inference/econometrics and experimental design

• Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders

• Strong business and product intuition as well as judgement

• Strong data storytelling and data visualization ability

• Strong SQL ability and proficiency with 1+ programming languages (Python strongly preferred)

• Familiarity with building data pipelines (e.g. in Hive, Spark) and workflow tools (e.g. Airflow)

• Ability to work autonomously and has strong interest to take ownership and lead while effectively partnering with stakeholders.

PREFERRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g. Looker, Chartio, or Tableau)

Udemy is the leading global marketplace for learning and teaching online, where more than 50 million students learn from over 175,000 courses taught by expert instructors in 75+ languages. Whether learning for professional development or personal enrichment, students can master new skills through self-paced, on-demand courses.