Join Thrasio as a Senior Data Scientist, Forecasting

Welcome to Thrasio! We are a next-gen consumer goods company reimagining the accessibility of the world’s most-loved products. Collaborate with successful sellers and utilize deep insights into rankings, ratings, and reviews to revolutionize the art and science of commerce. With one in six households owning a Thrasio product, our goal is to delight every customer.

What Makes Us Unique

At Thrasio, we construct greatness block by block, fostering a culture where everyone is a leader. We embrace opportunities and expect leadership from all team members, guided by our Leadership Principles to delight our customers with top-notch brands, products, and services. Everyone is a builder, constantly innovating and efficient in our ways of work. Our inclusive environment ensures that everyone belongs, operating as One Team.

The Role

As a Senior Data Scientist on the Forecasting team, you will spearhead the development of forecasting systems integral to pricing strategy and inventory management across Thrasio’s extensive product portfolio. Collaborate with experts in causal inference, pricing, optimization, and machine learning to drive world-class automated decision-making through accurate and timely forecasts, a cornerstone of Thrasio’s long-term success and market leadership.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Utilize machine learning, statistical, and econometric time series techniques for precise, granular demand forecasts within a hierarchical product catalog.
• Partner with pricing and supply chain data scientists to embed the causal impact of their business levers into your forecasts, establishing a single source of truth for forward planning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, product management, and brand managers to build user-friendly interfaces for your models, enabling tracked overrides of forecasts when business context is absent.
• Deliver and support production code that drives business-critical decision-making systems.

What You Bring to the Party

• Masters or Ph.D. in a quantitative field (e.g., computer science, economics, operations research, statistics, etc.) or related disciplines like Industrial Engineering, Statistics, or Mathematics.
• 3+ years of practical experience in data science systems, preferably in e-commerce.
• Experience in delivering robust and maintainable production codebases for autonomously delivering data science models to downstream systems.
• Proficiency in statistical/econometric time series modeling (e.g., ARIMA, Exponential Smoothing/ETS), machine learning (e.g., XGBoost/LightGBM), or hybrid techniques (e.g., ES-RNN).
• Strong skills in Python, SQL, and Git.
• Passion for driving significant business impact through applied science, humility, and collaboration.

Nice to Have

• Experience in supply chain optimization, pricing, or causal inference (to ease collaboration with partner teams).
• Familiarity with Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark.

What We Offer

• Be part of an innovative consumer goods company revolutionizing the industry.
• A collaborative work environment where cross-functional teams solve problems and achieve common goals.
• Grow with a talented, diverse, and passionate team with cutting-edge technology to support our mission.
• A flexible work environment promoting work-life balance without rigid schedules.
• Competitive salary and benefits, plus valuable on-the-job learning opportunities.
• Empowerment to "be bold," have a voice, and seize opportunities with minimal red tape.

Our Commitments

Thrasio values diversity, equity, and inclusion and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, considering all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. We strive to create an environment where everyone can thrive and encourage applicants who meet the minimum criteria to apply, believing in the power of diverse perspectives and challenging assumptions.

Diversity at Thrasio

Our goal is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment that fuels success and growth in the workplace and beyond. We are committed to recruiting and hiring a diverse team at all levels