Data Scientist, Dynamic Pricing

Turo’s Dynamic Pricing team builds the pricing intelligence that powers recommendations for 200,000+ vehicles globally: a foundational economic engine influencing 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.

We’re looking for a Data Scientist with a strong quantitative foundation and a desire to grow into pricing, economics, and marketplace modeling. You’ll work on well-scoped parts of our pricing challenges, including demand modeling, probability of booking, and model monitoring.

You’ll join a small, high-impact team and get hands-on exposure to the full model development lifecycle, from research to deployment.

Modeling & Causal Inference

• Contribute to dynamic pricing model development with guidance from senior teammates: build features, train and evaluate models, and run backtests.
• Analyze pricing drivers such as lead time, seasonality, and price elasticity, and help test improvements to pricing accuracy.
• Help monitor models in production, investigate anomalies, and support retraining.
• Write clean, tested Python and SQL, and contribute to production code through code review with senior teammates.
• Follow team standards for reproducibility, ML ops, and scientific rigor.

Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product managers, engineers, and analysts to answer business questions with data.
• Share findings clearly with your team and stakeholders.

You are a curious and rigorous data scientist early in your career, excited to learn how statistics, machine learning, and economics come together in a real marketplace. 

You enjoy translating unstructured questions into statistical frameworks.

You’re interested in consumer marketplaces and motivated by seeing your work influence real-world outcomes.

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience and a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a quantitative field such as Machine Learning, Operations Research, Statistics, Computer Science, or Mathematics.
• Solid foundation in statistics and machine learning, hypothesis testing, and model evaluation.
• Interest in economics, with a working understanding of supply and demand and price elasticity.
• Proficiency in Python (pandas, scikit-learn, or similar) and SQL.
• Clear communication: able to explain your analyses and results to technical and non-technical teammates.
• Curious, self-motivated learner with attention to detail, who takes ownership of their work and actively seeks feedback.
   

For this role, the target base salary range in San Francisco is $134,000-$168,000 annually. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. In general, our ranges reflect the market-based target for new hire salaries based on the level and location of the role. Within the range, individual pay is determined by objective factors assessed during the application and interview process, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits available for this role.

Turo highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This is central to how we work, and this role will be subject to our current in-office hybrid schedule that requires Turists to work in the office three days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. We expect that employees will meet these required in-office days consistently as part of their role. Your recruiter can share more information about this requirement and the in-office perks Turo offers.

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• 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

• For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities

We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.

Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world’s largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us!  Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.

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 US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver's seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts.

Discover Turo at https://turo.com, the App Store, and Google Play, and check out our blog, Field Notes.  

Read more about the Turo culture according to Turo CEO, Andre Haddad.

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.  

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