Director, Core Pricing Systems

Lead vehicle pricing strategy at CarMax by developing and operationalizing AI and optimization models that value vehicles across retail sales, customer appraisals, or auction purchases. Manage a team of data scientists, guide cross-functional model implementation, and monitor pricing performance as market conditions change.

Responsibilities

• Develop pricing strategies that support short- and long-term business objectives.
• Lead development of optimization and pricing models for vehicle valuation.
• Manage, coach, and set goals for a team of data scientists.
• Partner with product, technology, and field teams to deploy pricing models.
• Design experiments to measure the business impact of pricing changes.
• Monitor model performance, respond to market changes, and resolve pricing system issues.

Required Skills

• Data science
• Machine learning
• Python
• Pricing optimization
• Statistical modeling
• Mathematical modeling
• Experiment design
• A/B testing
• Algorithm development
• Model monitoring