About the team:

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 who combines deep modeling expertise with strong product intuition and an economics mindset. In this role, you will own complex pricing challenges spanning demand modeling, supply–demand dynamics, causal inference, and optimization under uncertainty.

You’ll join a small, high-impact team working across the full lifecycle – from research, development and deployment, to experimentation and iteration.

What you will do:

You are a creative and rigorous data scientist who is energized by mathematically complex, ambiguity-rich problems. You thrive at the intersection of econometrics, machine learning, and optimization, and you’re comfortable translating unstructured questions into statistical frameworks and deployed solutions.

You think in equations as easily as in product narratives, and you can reason about incentives, elasticity, and market equilibrium without needing perfect data. You love working on consumer marketplaces, experimenting in production, and seeing your models influence real-world outcomes.

Modeling & Causal Inference

• End-to-end development of dynamic pricing models, from problem framing to deployment and iteration, using demand modeling, causal inference, and market simulation.

• Develop new approaches to pacing, lead-time dynamics, seasonality, and price elasticity to improve pricing accuracy and marketplace efficiency.

• Build frameworks to measure how pricing decisions affect marketplace health, host earnings, and guest conversion; design experiments that account for two-sided marketplace interactions and spillover effects.
  

Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Translate business problems into modeling solutions and communicate results clearly to technical and product partners.

• Support product initiatives that improve host experience and profitability by surfacing key metrics, assumptions, and trade-offs.

Technical Excellence

• Write production-ready Python code; own model deployment, monitoring, and retraining.

• Uphold team standards for reproducibility, MLOps, and scientific rigor.

Your profile:

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience and an advanced degree in a quantitative field.

• Strong foundation in statistics and ML, with working knowledge of econometrics and/or optimization.

• Familiarity with A/B testing and experimental design.

• Python proficiency; fluent in SQL and large-scale data work.

• Strong communication skills, capable of distilling complex modeling work into clear, strategic narratives for technical and product partners.

• Self-driven learner with strong ownership, attention to detail, and a drive for delivering real business impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with marketplace or platform problems and a solid understanding of economics, including supply–demand dynamics and elasticity modeling.

• Experience with quasi-experimental methods (diff-in-diff, synthetic control, IV) and/or structural modeling.

• PhD in a quantitative field such as economics, statistics, machine learning, etc.

• Background in market design, dynamic programming, or advanced statistical methods (hierarchical models, time-series forecasting, survival analysis, Bayesian inference).

• Track record shipping pricing or optimization systems to production.

• Experience with AWS stack or similar cloud infrastructure.

The SF base salary target range for this full-time position is $134,000-$168,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position in San Francisco, CA. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your work location during the hiring process.

Turo highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Turists will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Turo considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Turo offers.

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Turo AI Policy:

Turo may use AI-enabled tools to support our recruiting operations, including gathering information from candidates, drafting communications, helping with interview note-taking and assessment, and so on. These tools only supplement our team; all decisions to advance or hire candidates are made by Turo employees. While we welcome candidates to use AI-enabled tools to help prepare for their interviews, the use of such tools, including any AI chatbots or note-takers, is not permitted during live interviews or technical assessments. We want to see how you consider and solve problems in real-time, so interviews and assessments are all you (unless we indicate otherwise and ask you specifically to use an AI-enabled tool to answer a question). If during the application process you require the use of an AI-enabled tool as a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please let us know at PeopleOps@turo.com.

Benefits

• 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.

About Turo

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.

We welcome candidates with physical, mental, and/or neurological disabilities. If you require assistance applying for an open position, or need accommodation during the recruiting process due to a disability, please submit a request to People Operations by emailing PeopleOps@turo.com.