Marketplace Pricing Scientist – 6 Months Contract

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About the role

  • Marketplace Pricing Scientist optimizing GoGoX’s delivery-platform pricing and matching economics. Testing models on order and supply data and handing recommendations to platform engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Assess existing pricing logic and quantify revenue and matching-efficiency losses
  • Evaluate mechanism design, algorithmic search, predictive and ML pricing approaches against data maturity, latency limits and commercial goals
  • Recommend and offline-test a pricing model using GoGoX order and supply data
  • Document assumptions and failure modes
  • Design live experiments with guardrails against cannibalising users or driver-partners
  • Define success metrics
  • Produce a handover pack for data engineers
  • Assess long-term hiring or training needs to support the model
  • Report to the Director, Platform

Requirements

  • 5+ years applying economic or optimisation modelling to pricing, matching or incentives in a live two-sided marketplace
  • Comfortable across mechanism design, causal inference (diff-in-diff, regression discontinuity, synthetic control), demand elasticity and structural modelling, and modern ML approaches to pricing
  • Strong in Python and SQL
  • Master's or PhD in Economics, Operations Research, Statistics or similar — or the industry track record that stands in for it
  • Pragmatic about constraints and able to recommend solutions suited to available data and engineering resources
  • Able to explain economics to a commercial audience
  • Fluent spoken Cantonese

Benefits

  • Fully remote work arrangement
  • 6-month contract

Job title

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Tech skills

PythonSQL

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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