Senior Data Scientist (Analytics) - GFin

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know the Team

The GFin Analytics team serves as the intelligence engine driving data-informed decisions across our payments and financial services products. As part of the Payments Tech Family, we're instrumental in accelerating cashless payments across all Grab verticals.

We're looking for analytically rigorous data analysts who have embraced AI as a force multiplier. If you excel at experimentation and behavioral analysis while leveraging LLMs to work smarter, and if you think in terms of scalable solutions rather than one-off analyses, we want to talk to you.

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist (Analytics) to lead critical analytical projects for the GFin Analytics team at Grab. Our mission centers on understanding user experiences at a granular level and collaborating with Business, Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver the right outcomes and features. You will directly report to the manager. You will be based onsite.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design, measure, and recommend A/B tests and multivariate experiments across the platform. These experiments evaluate layout optimization, UI/UX efficacy, contextualization, algorithm performance, and API effectiveness. Additionally, use LLMs to accelerate experiment design, automate statistical analysis, and create insight narratives.
• Extract insights from clickstream and transactional data to understand user behavior across consumers, driver partners, and merchants, translating patterns into relevant product metrics, using AI coding assistants to write and improve complex SQL queries.
• Create segmented customer and merchant views that allow business and product team to drive meaningful product iterations, building AI assisted segmentation frameworks that automatically identify emerging patterns and anomalies.
• Transform ambiguous business challenges into structured analytical frameworks and conduct deep dive analyses that yield clear insights, using LLMs to rapidly prototype analytical approaches and synthesize findings into compelling narratives.
• Balance analytical rigor with technical complexity and explainability while considering real world business constraints, leveraging AI to generate multiple solution approaches and evaluate trade offs efficiently.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define key metrics, align on measurement strategies, and design robust experimentation approaches, using AI to draft documentation, create presentations, and automate routine reporting.
• Develop data-driven solutions, including reports, dashboards, models, and frameworks, that directly support stakeholder decision making. These solutions involve building AI-powered self-serve analytics tools that scale automatically and systematically.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 4 years of experience in Analytics, Business Intelligence, or Data Science, in a Tech (FinTech or E-Commerce) company.
• A minomum of Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience in SQL (Presto, Hive) and visualization tools with solid Python or R programming skills, demonstrating daily use of AI and LLMs to create code faster than traditional methods.
• Experience using AI tools to increase personal productivity with prompt engineering skills for code generation, analysis, and documentation, and AI coding assistants already integrated into your workflow.
• Experience with apply AI solutions versus traditional approaches, can identify high ROI automation opportunities, and stays current with LLM and GenAI advancements through rapid experimentation.

 

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.