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Principal Data Scientist User Understanding Platformisation

Indonesia Grab Approximately IDR 60,000,000–120,000,000 per month, depending on experience, equity, bonus, and final location*
Job Description

This senior role focuses on building user-understanding capabilities and scalable data science platforms for Grab’s products. Requirements typically include a strong background in data science, machine learning, statistics, experimentation, personalization, and user behavior analysis, together with advanced Python or similar programming skills. The candidate is expected to lead technically complex projects, define modeling and measurement standards, translate business problems into data solutions, mentor data scientists, and collaborate effectively with product, engineering, and business teams. Experience deploying machine-learning systems at scale, influencing stakeholders, and working in a fast-moving technology environment is likely essential. Strong communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to connect research with measurable product outcomes are also expected.

Company Info

Grab is a Southeast Asian technology company offering services across mobility, deliveries, financial services, and digital payments. Founded in Malaysia and headquartered in Singapore, it operates across numerous markets including Indonesia. The company’s platform connects consumers, driver-partners, merchant-partners, and financial-service users through products such as ride-hailing, food delivery, logistics, payments, lending, and insurance. Grab uses large-scale technology, data science, and artificial intelligence to improve everyday access to transportation, commerce, and financial tools. Its workforce includes engineers, analysts, product specialists, operations teams, commercial professionals, and data scientists. Grab’s Indonesia business is one of its largest markets, with activity concentrated in major urban areas such as Jakarta and other cities across Java, Sumatra, Bali, and Sulawesi. Working there generally involves cross-functional collaboration, regional exposure, and solving complex problems in a high-growth digital-economy environment.

Destination Guide

Indonesia offers varied career opportunities across technology, data, logistics, finance, tourism, manufacturing, and digital commerce. Jakarta, on Java, is the main corporate and technology hub, with the widest selection of professional roles but heavy traffic and a fast-paced lifestyle. Bandung and Yogyakarta are known for universities, creative communities, and a lower cost of living. Bali offers an international, tourism-oriented lifestyle and a strong expatriate community, although housing can be expensive. Surabaya is an important commercial and industrial center, while Batam has manufacturing and logistics opportunities. Indonesian culture generally values hospitality, family, respect, and community; English is common in multinational workplaces, but Bahasa Indonesia is useful day to day. Foreign employees normally need employer sponsorship, an appropriate work permit, and a limited-stay visa. Check current immigration rules before relocating, and research taxation, healthcare, housing, transport, and local employment restrictions.

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