Data Scientist

About Yassir   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 towards providing our users with the most essential services to their door by leveraging technology and a large ecosystem of partners. We at Yassir stand for: Ambition, Transparency & Trust, Quality, Performance. And we are growing fast - super fast. By choosing a career at Yassir, you choose to be part of one of the most impactful, fastest-growing Tech companies in Africa.

About the Role

• Yassir is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist to join our Artificial Intelligence (AI) team and contribute to some of our key projects, such as Dynamic Pricing and Trip Dispatching. As a Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in analyzing and modelling data to optimize our Machine Learning (ML) systems. Your expertise in both predictive modelling and software development will be essential in driving our solutions and providing value to Yassir. This is a very exciting opportunity, tackling some of Yassir’s most critical problems.

About the Team

• The AI team is part of Yassir’s central Data & AI domain, which is responsible for all data related activities in the organization - from Data Engineering, Data Platform management and Data Analytics all the way to AI solutions and MLOps infrastructure development. We are a global team of Data and AI / ML experts, encompassing diverse backgrounds and skills. We strive to build state-of-the-art Data and ML infrastructure and solutions, and ultimately a Data Culture supported by responsible and democratized data access, data-driven decision making and automation. We push the envelope of what’s feasible, we challenge each other, we support each other, and we take great pride in our work. Most of all we are value-driven to create impact from our data solutions. If you have an inherent curiosity about the fields Data and AI, a relevant background and an internal zeal and drive to contribute, please come join us!

Key Responsibilities

• Become an expert point of contact and thought leader on your scope by mastering the details and principles pertaining to it. We aim for this role to focus on optimization Pricing capabilities, such as 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