We are looking for a Data Scientist to build out our pricing, forecasting, and advertising algorithms that allow Perch to grow our brands at scale. Sitting within our Decision Engine team, the ideal candidate will have 2+ years of data science experience working on causal inference, classification, or time series prediction problems, and has worked in a production environment workflow. The person filling this role should have strong analytical skills and business acumen to advance our strategic thinking beyond just building machine learning models.

Responsibilities

• Use observational data and generate experimental data to estimate pricing and advertising lever impact on demand.
• Develop models to predict elasticities for new products, channels, and markets.
• Work closely with Growth team product managers, engineers, and data analysts to carefully curate high dimension time series data sets that unlock new insights.
• Consult with other analysts within the Growth team to aid in improved causal inference and in identifying opportunities for data science solutions.
• Build the engine that surfaces causal and demand estimates to marketing, supply chain, and business leaders to improve the business response to changes in market demand.
• Evangelize rigorous data driven decision making across Perch to elevate the business.
• Develop deep expertise in the inputs that feed pricing logic and identify opportunities to improve accuracy.

About You

You have a B.S. in a quantitative field from a top rated program. Building optimization solutions, data pipelines, and analyses in python comes as second nature. You are thrilled to engage in brainstorming of economic hypotheses and can’t wait to dive into the data to validate or invalidate your ideas. You recognize the pursuit of better and cleaner data never ends, but brings great value to your work. Most importantly, you seek to innovate, to do what has not been done, and to measure what has not been measured.

About Us

Perch is one of the fastest growing eCommerce companies in Boston. Perch acquires and develops great ecommerce brands. We are backed by amazing investors (SoftBank, Spark Capital, Tectonic Ventures, and Boston Seed). Our team has deep expertise in ecommerce, technology, and M&A. We are disrupting one of the largest and most exciting spaces of ecommerce and are building an industry-shaping platform. Our aim is to have a workplace and company that positively impacts the lives of others, including our employees, their families, the entrepreneurs and vendors we work with, and our end customers.

Perch is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.