Uber Freight · 17 hours ago
Head of Applied Science and Data
Chicago, IL 60607, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expUber Freight is a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics. As the Head of Applied Science & Data, you will lead a team responsible for developing advanced machine learning and optimization solutions to improve performance and shape the direction of applied science within the organization.
AppsLogisticsMobile AppsSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
Provide leadership and mentoring to a team of applied scientist
Lead a team that develops creative solutions and build prototypes to business problems using algorithms based on machine learning, statistics, and optimization, and work with engineering/product to productionize those algorithms and create impact in production
Drive clarity and solve ambiguous, challenging business problems using data-driven approaches
Propose and guide the framework of data analysis to drive business insight and facilitate decisions. Establish standard methodologies for data science including modeling, coding, analytics, and experimentation
Leverage data to understand product performance and to identify improvement opportunities
Design product experiments and interpret the results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions
Communicate with senior management and multi-functional teams
Provide leadership to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions
Build intelligent data-driven products to provide the best user experience
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, or related field
10 years of related experience
Minimal travel required for this role
Preferred
Knowledge of experimental design and analysis
Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and model development
Ability to use a language like Python or R to work efficiently at scale with large data sets
Proficiency in languages and tools like SQL, Hive, and Spark
7 years of management experience
Benefits
Company sponsored health plan
Dental and vision benefits
401k match
Financial and mental wellness benefits
Parental leave
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Performance or sales incentive bonus program
Participation in Uber Freight equity awards
Company
Uber Freight
Uber Freight is the logistics arm of Uber that helps truck drivers connect with shipping companies. It is a sub-organization of Uber.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (78)
2024 (33)
2023 (103)
2022 (9)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.05BKey Investors
Greenbriar Equity Group
2021-11-15Private Equity· $550M
2020-10-02Series A· $500M
Leadership Team
Timothy Hinson
EVP, Transportation Management
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