About the Role
Yassir is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist to join our Artificial Intelligence (AI) team and contribute to key projects such as Dynamic Pricing and Trip Dispatching. As a Data Scientist, your expertise in analyzing and modelling data will be essential in optimizing our Machine Learning (ML) systems and driving solutions that provide value to Yassir. This is a very exciting opportunity to tackle some of Yassir’s most critical problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Become an expert point of contact and thought leader on your scope by mastering the details and principles pertaining to it.
- Focus on optimizing Pricing capabilities, including Dynamic / Surge Pricing, Discounts / Commissioning Optimization, and Personalized Pricing.
- Identify and propose ML opportunities related to your scope and beyond.
- Support with requirements definition and prioritization of ML projects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional Engineering and Product teams.
- Champion Data Quality as a critical input component to all ML solutions and Analytics.
- Conduct Exploratory Data Analysis and subsequent Feature Selection / Engineering.
- Utilize Statistical and ML techniques for model training.
- Validate and tune ML models.
- Visualize analysis/modeling results focusing on meaningful, actionable metrics and insights.
- Deploy and test ML applications using our MLOps infrastructure.
- Monitor ML models on their technical performance and business impact, and address underlying data/concept drift.
- Explain technical solutions in a business-friendly manner, supporting Product teams in their communications and reporting.
- Maintain and improve technical documentation of delivered solutions.
- Support the Data & AI domain in developing its technical capabilities and improve collaboration with other teams.
- Champion Data Culture, proactively sharing knowledge across teams, and participating in team-building activities.
Key Requirements - Essential
- Solid Mathematical/Statistical/Machine Learning as well as Software Development technical skills, supported by a Master’s degree or above in a relevant quantitative field (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Operational Research).
- Comfortable in efficient, production-quality Python and SQL coding with at least 2 years of industry experience.
- Familiar with key software engineering concepts (code/memory profiling, code optimization, scalability, QA testing).
- Prior experience with Pricing/Economics-related problems and/or modelling techniques.
- Comfortable with key Statistical concepts (statistical testing and causal analysis).
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Engineering mindset focused on delivering robust applied data science solutions.
- Visualization skills, including experience with common Python ecosystem libraries and/or Analytics/BI tooling.
- Familiarity with Cloud solutions and data/ML services; experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is preferred.
- Mastery of the end-to-end (ML) model development lifecycle.
- Excellent communication skills (presentation, oral/written communication in professional English).
- Positive attitude, resilience, and strong interpersonal skills focused on peer support and stakeholder relationship building.
- Internal drive, self-motivation, and ability to work independently, including effective project management.
Nice to Have
- Experience with On-demand, Mobility or Financial Services companies.
- Experience working on ML features for Digital Products (apps, websites).
Work Conditions
Full-time / Hybrid
Location
Cairo, Egypt / Alexandria, Egypt / Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / Cape Town, South Africa / Dubai, United Arab Emirates / Remote / Riyadh, Saudi Arabia / Johannesburg, South Africa
About the Company
Yassir is the Super App designed to make your life easier. Yassir’s mission is to serve Africans in the continent and its diaspora while creating economic opportunities for service providers and infusing social values. We aspire to provide our users with essential services delivered to their door by leveraging technology and a large ecosystem of partners. We stand for: Ambition, Transparency & Trust, Quality, and Performance. We are growing fast - super fast.
