The team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp, emphasizing urgency, deep thinking, and customer-first principles. At NALA, employees are offered ownership, impact, and the opportunity to change global payments forever.

About the Role

Job Title: Data Scientist - Pricing
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Data

Your Mission:
Leverage data to sharpen the accuracy of pricing decisions and shape the pricing strategy that drives NALA’s growth across Africa and beyond.

Your Responsibilities in this Role:

• Pricing strategy: Define and evolve NALA’s corridor-specific and global pricing strategy using data-driven insights and experimentation.
• Pricing experiment design: Partner with Marketing and Treasury to ideate, run, and measure experiments that test hypotheses and unlock pricing advantages.
• Pricing performance analysis: Enhance analytics capabilities by modeling price sensitivity, quantifying experiment impact, and iterating on strategy based on results.
• Daily pricing operations: Own data inputs that inform daily price changes across corridors—monitor competitor behavior, customer response, and margin implications.
• Pricing tools roadmap: Help shape the roadmap for the pricing engine and experimentation stack—contribute to the design of algorithm controls, analytics dashboards, and testing infrastructure.
• Market knowledge: Stay informed on competitor strategies, macro trends, and customer needs to ground your work in reality.

Must Have Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience leading pricing or monetization analytics at a top-tier company or fintech.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience working with large-scale datasets and building robust analytical workflows.
• Strong data science foundation—experience with modeling techniques, ML experimentation, or LLM applications.
• Deep customer empathy and a bias toward solving for real-world outcomes.

Nice to Have Requirements:

• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Background in payments, FX, or remittance, particularly where pricing is a strategic lever.

Benefits:

• 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays: Take the time to decompress.
• Birthday Leave: A bonus day off to celebrate your special day.
• Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks for the secondary caregiver (after a 6-month probationary period).
• Global Workspace: Access to WeWork locations worldwide.
• Learning Budget: $1000 annually for learning and development.
• Sarabi: Themed snacks and Friday lunch to build great working relationships.
• Monthly Socials: Fun social events every month.
• Free Coffee: Barista-style coffee available.