BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We are an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of members to transform the way people travel!

For more information about us, please visit www.blablacar.com/dreamjobs

Why you join us? 

BlaBlaCar’s vision is to build the largest people-powered transportation network in the world. Growing activity and usage on our two-sided marketplace in a balanced way is key to achieve this vision.

To help us fulfill this ambition, you will join a dedicated agile cross-skills squad, operating as a mini-startup within BlaBlaCar. The squad is comprised of tier one profiles with a strong entrepreneurial mindset: product manager, software engineers, UX designer, data analyst. To further propel the mission of this squad, you will work alongside your colleagues to design and measure experiments on our platform, build models, and uncover new insights about pricing and matching dynamics at BlaBlaCar.

What you will directly contribute to:

• Designing and running experiments our our two-sided marketplace to identify the drivers and root causes of marketplace trends

• Building causal and predictive models to explain pricing and matching dynamics on our platform

• Analyzing and investigating large data sets to help drive business decisions, both strategic and operational

• Teaming up with other internal squads to bring a scientific approach to solve a range of business problems

• As the first economist at BlaBlaCar, evangelize the experiment mindset

What you will need to be successful

• PhD (or Masters and at least 3 years work experience) in Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics, Statistics, or Applied Math

• Strong proficiency with statistical modeling tools (R, STATA, SAS, etc.)

• Familiarity with a scripting language (SQL, Python, etc) is a plus

• Experience designing experiments and analyzing results

• Experience with marketplace dynamics and data is a plus

• A keen ability to balance the needs of scientific rigor with business priorities

• Superb communication skills: you are able to explain your models clearly to both analysts and decision makers.

• Be humble, structured, organized, motivated by innovation and a relentless do-er

• Enjoy working as a team-player and learning from others

• Be fluent in English

A few practical details about the role

• Start: As soon as you are ready!
• Location: Paris office
• Contract: Permanent contract
• Compensation: Competitive package based on experience

What we offer all of our employees

• A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact

• Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment

• The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment

• An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces

• Free carpooling to live our value “Think it. Build it. Use it.”

• Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend

• Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other

• Weekly Tech Demos

• And many more benefits - check them out on BlaBlaCar.com/dreamjobs

What is next 

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English. 

Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application fits our requirements, we will invite you to complete an online test (15 min needed). Should you pass the test, we shall then get to know each other a bit better via a phone or video call.

After that, we will ask you to take a challenge relevant to our business objectives. It will give you a real sense of what the role is like and the opportunity to come and present it to the Team at our offices for more discussions around it.

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