Senior Data Scientist, Dynamic Pricing

We are hiring a Senior Data Scientist, Dynamic Pricing at Turo.

About The Team

Turo's Dynamic Pricing team builds the pricing intelligence that powers recommendations for over 200,000 vehicles globally. This foundational economic engine influences tens of millions of pricing decisions each day. These models directly shape guest demand, host profitability, and the overall efficiency and balance of our two sided marketplace. The team is small, high impact, and works across the full life cycle-from research and development to deployment, experimentation and iteration.

What You Will Do

You will own complex pricing challenges spanning demand modeling, supply-demand dynamics, causal inference, and optimization under uncertainty. You will be a creative, rigorous data scientist energized by mathematically complex, ambiguity rich problems, and you'll translate unstructured questions into statistical frameworks and deployed solutions.

Responsibilities Modeling & Causal Inference

• Lead end to end development of dynamic pricing models: from problem framing to deployment and iteration using demand modeling, causal inference, and market simulation.
• Develop new approaches to pacing, lead time dynamics, seasonality, and price elasticity to improve pricing accuracy and marketplace efficiency.
• Build frameworks to measure how pricing decisions affect marketplace health, host earnings, and guest conversion; design experiments that account for two sided marketplace interactions and spillover effects.

Product & Cross Functional Leadership

• Translate ambiguous business problems into deployable modeling solutions and influence product strategy through clear communication to both technical and executive audiences.
• Shape and evaluate product initiatives that improve host experience and profitability, aligning cross functional teams on metrics, assumptions, and key trade offs.

Technical Excellence

• Write production ready Python code; own model deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Drive team standards for reproducibility, ML ops, and scientific rigor.

Your Profile

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience and an advanced degree in a quantitative field.
• Deep expertise in statistics, econometrics, optimization, and ML with demonstrated application to pricing or prediction problems.
• Strong causal inference background: experiment design, quasi experimental methods, and structural modeling.
• Experience with marketplace or platform problems and solid understanding of economics, including supply demand dynamics and elasticity modeling.
• Python proficiency; fluent in SQL and large scale data work.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of distilling complex modeling work into clear, strategic narratives for executive leadership.
• Self driven learner with strong ownership, attention to detail, and a drive for delivering real business impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in a quantitative field such as economics, statistics, machine learning, etc.
• Background in market design, dynamic programming, or advanced statistical methods (hierarchical models, time series forecasting, survival analysis, Bayesian inference, synthetic control).
• Track record shipping pricing or optimization systems to production.
• Experience with AWS stack or similar cloud infrastructure.

Compensation

Target base salary range in San Francisco: $156,000-$195,000 annually. The role also eligible for equity and benefits. Pay is determined by objective factors such as job related skills, experience, and education. We encourage you to speak with a recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits available.

Work Environment

Turo highly values in office collaboration. This role will be in office on a hybrid schedule - 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Working in the office at least 3 days per week is an essential function of this hybrid role.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full time employees.
• Employer paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (country specific).
• Retirement employer match.
• Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development.
• Turo host matching program.
• Turo travel credit.
• Cell phone and internet stipend.
• Paid time off to relax and recharge.
• Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave.
• In office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities for in office employees.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building a diverse team. If you come from a background that is under represented in tech, we'd love to meet you. Even if you don't meet every qualification, we consider enthusiasm for what we do and will consider you for this and other possibilities.

About Turo

Turo is the world's largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you're going, from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and France. Discover Turo at the App Store, and Google Play. Read more about Turo culture in the blog Field Notes and through Turo CEO Andre Haddad.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Turo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in the U.S. Federal E Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Turo will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable. We welcome candidates with physical, mental, and/or neurological disabilities. If you require assistance applying for an open position or need accommodation during the recruiting process due to a disability, please submit a request to People Operations by emailing .