Data Scientist

PriceLabs (https://www.chicagobusiness.com/innovators/what-if-you-could-adjust-prices-meet-demand" target="_blank">chicagobusiness.com/innovators/what-if-you-could-adjust-prices-meet-demand) is a cloud based software for vacation and short term rentals to help them dynamically manage prices just the way large hotels and airlines do! Our mission is to help small businesses in the travel and tourism industry by giving them access to advanced analytical systems that are often restricted to large companies. 

We're looking for someone with strong analytical capabilities who wants to understand how our current architecture and algorithms work, and help us design and develop long lasting solutions to address those. Depending on the needs of the day, the role will come with a good mix of team-work, following our best practices, introducing us to industry best practices, independent thinking, and ownership of your work.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and enhance our pricing algorithms to enable new capabilities.
• Process, analyze, model, and visualize findings from our market level supply and demand data.
• Build and enhance internal and customer facing dashboards to better track metrics and trends that help customers use PriceLabs in a better way.
• Take ownership of product ideas and design discussions.
• Occasional travel to conferences to interact with prospective users and partners, and learn where the industry is headed.

Requirements:

• Bachelors, Masters or Ph. D. in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other quantitative/engineering fields.
• Strong understanding of analysis of algorithms, data structures and statistics.
• Solid programming experience. Including being able to quickly prototype an idea and test it out.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability and willingness to explain complicated algorithms and concepts in simple terms.
• Experience with relational databases and strong knowledge of SQL.
• Experience building data heavy analytical models in the travel industry.
• Experience in the vacation rental industry.
• Experience developing dynamic pricing models.
• Prior experience working at a fast paced environment.
• Willingness to wear many hats.