PROS

Title: Scientist

• Department: Science and Research
• Position Schedule: Full Time

Job Responsibilities

PROS (Pricing Revenue Optimization Systems), a recognized leader in pricing and revenue optimization theory, science, and application development, continues to expand its Pricing Optimization division as a result of demand for our products and services. Applicants with strong analytical skills are sought to help shape the future of pricing and revenue optimization for new and existing industry verticals.

Job Description

Currently PROS is seeking applicants for the position of Associate Scientist, Scientist, or Senior Scientist (rank is depending on experience in pricing science). You will work in teams to innovate and implement pricing science embedded in PROS Products. Your responsibilities will range from performing quantitative business analysis, data mining, performing demand modeling analysis, and designing and executing proofs of concept, to the communicating the value of pricing approaches to executives. PROS is looking for candidates that are team players with a firm grasp of the technical aspects as well as a strong aptitude towards understanding the business aspects. Preferred candidates must be creative, highly motivated, well grounded in quantitative disciplines, success oriented, and works well in a team environment with excellent verbal communication skills.

The position requires:

• Demonstrated expertise in operations research, quantitative economics, econometrics, statistics, applied mathematics or a related field
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Programming skills and data mining skills

Desired qualifications include experience with one or more of the following skills:

• Demand modeling and forecasting
• Statistics and Probability Theory
• Mathematical Optimization
• Oracle, SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Access
• Programming languages such as C/C++ and/or Java
• Experience in pricing optimization
• Experience in integrating science in commercial software products

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.