2010-04-16-associate-scientist
PROS
Title: Associate Scientist
PROS (Pricing and Revenue Optimization Systems), a recognized leader in Pricing Software, continues to expand its division of Science and Research as a result of demand for our products.. Applicants with strong analytical skills are sought to help shape the future of pricing and revenue optimization for new and existing industries.
Statistician. Define and test new system functionalities for release into statistical engines. Support the design of new products through validation and testing. Configure products at client installations. Preferred candidates must be mature, highly motivated, and success oriented.
Requirements:
- Masters or Ph.D. in statistics
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with statistical software programs
- Willingness to travel on a limited basis
- C/C++, Java or other programming experience
Desired qualifications:
- Bayesian forecasting methods
- Data mining including SQL and Microsoft Access
- Price/demand econometric modeling
- Categorical data analysis
About PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. is the leading provider of pricing and revenue optimization software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution, and price optimization. By using PROS software products, companies gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify pricing-based profit leaks, optimize their pricing decision making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS software products implement advanced pricing science, which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. PROS high performance software architecture supports real-time high volume transaction processing and allows PROS to handle the processing and database requirements of the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with hundreds of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS provides professional services to configure its software products to meet the specific pricing needs of each customer. PROS has implemented over 250 solutions across a range of industries in more than 40 countries.
Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 350 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and over 25 with Ph.D.s. To apply online, please visit the Career page under About PROS on our website www.prospricing.com.