Director of Economics & Pricing

CSC Generation is the AI-native holding company re-engineering omni-channel retail. We acquire iconic brands and transform them with Genesis-our operating platform unifying a Data Fabric, Automation Engine, proprietary tools, and shared services-to modernize operations, elevate customer experience, and expand margins.

With $1B+ in revenue across 13 brands, our portfolio includes Sur La Table, Backcountry, One Kings Lane, and more-premier home and outdoor banners that double as real-world innovation hubs. CSC Generation continues to grow through M&A, revitalizing companies with strong brand recognition and loyal customers.

CSC Generation is building an internaleconomics and pricing decision system to improve cash recovery, margin, and capital efficiency across closed-out, at-risk, and healthy inventory.

This role is the single-threaded owner of that system.

You’ll operate at the intersection of pricing, inventory, finance, data science, and engineering - turning high uncertainty into structured decisions that run daily and move real dollars.

This is not a pure analytics or engineering role. It’s a product-ownership and economics leadership role.

What you get to do

• Own the economic framework behind pricing and inventory disposition (contribution margin, holding cost, option value).
• Define and evolve the Bleeder / At-Risk / Healthy inventory classification and policies.
• Lead structured research and experimentation in ambiguous, low-signal environments.
• Partner with data science on time-to-sell, demand, and elasticity models - pushing for interpretability and actionability.
• Use LLMs pragmatically to accelerate hypothesis generation, feature ideation, matching, and model evaluation (with guardrails).
• Partner with engineering to productionize daily decisioning, guardrails, monitoring, and overrides.
• Establish trust through explainable recommendations, governance, and post-mortems.
• Apply formal reasoning where useful (constraints, invariants, checkable rationales) to ensure decisions are valid and auditable.

What you bring

• 8+ years in pricing, inventory, revenue management, marketplace economics, or applied data science in retail/e-commerce.
• Proven ability to create clarity and momentum in high-uncertainty problem spaces.
• Strong command of unit economics and expected-value thinking.
• Experience influencing or owning systems that drive daily financial decisions.
• Comfort working across data science, engineering, merchandising, and finance.

Nice to Have

• Experience with clearance / markdown optimization or liquidation.
• Familiarity with hazard models, demand modeling, or experimentation.
• Hands-on experience using LLMs in analytics or decision systems.
• Background in formal logic, constraint systems, or verification-style thinking.

What’s in it for you? Joining CSC Generation isn’t just about having a seat at the table-it’s about helping redesign the table entirely. You’ll be challenged, stretched, and supported as you grow faster than you thought possible. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer

• Executive Access: Work directly with brand CEOs and senior leadership, solving real business problems and earning mentorship from top operators.
• AI-First Skill Building: Get hands-on with the most advanced AI tools in the market. From automation to prompt engineering, you’ll build a modern tech stack that sets you apart in any industry.
• Accelerated Career Path: High performers are quickly entrusted with greater responsibility, new challenges, and leadership opportunities across our portfolio of brands.
• Competitive benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k)/RRSP match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts at our portfolio companies.

Our Interview Process

• Step 1: If you align with our vision and meet the qualifications, we’ll reach out to schedule a conversation and introduce CSC.
• Step 2: You’ll complete a short AI or product-building challenge so we can understand how you approach problems and execution.
• Step 3: Participate in deep-dive interviews with CSC leadership focused on your experience, product mindset, and operational thinking.
• Step 4: Offer. We’ll move fast for the right candidate.