Senior Data Scientist

Responsibilities

You will design and analyze experiments within a two-sided marketplace to optimize customer experience and delivery fulfillment. You will also collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to translate complex data into actionable business recommendations.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience in a quantitative role and proficiency in SQL, Python, or R. A strong track record of managing ambiguous, cross-functional problems and designing rigorous experiments is required.

Skills

• Data science
• Machine learning
• SQL
• Python
• R
• Experimentation
• Statistical modeling
• Optimization models
• Geospatial data
• Marketplace analysis
• Product strategy
• Data analysis
• Communication
• Cross-functional leadership
• Automation tools

Benefits

• Equity grant
• Annual refresh grants
• Flexible work environment

About this role

We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
The Fulfillment Data Science team works on problems at the core of Instacart's marketplace: how customers choose and experience delivery and pickup, and how we balance speed, reliability, and cost to deliver it. You'll join a collaborative team that works closely with frontier machine learning models, on a rich data set with fast feedback loops from design to production. You'll be a trusted partner to Product, Engineering, and Operations, turning complex marketplace questions into clear recommendations that shape the roadmap and reach leadership.
About the Job
Use data science to shape how customers choose and experience delivery and pickup, from browsing through checkout and fulfillment
Own the experimentation framework for all speed and service option tests, across both marketplace and enterprise
Design and analyze experiments in a two-sided marketplace, adapting methods to fit the problem
Measure tradeoffs between speed, reliability, cost, and customer experience, and turn them into product and strategy recommendations
Connect operational changes to business outcomes such as growth, retention, and efficiency
Work with Product, Engineering, and Operations to understand complicated systems and find the questions that matter most
Build automation tools, metrics, and frameworks that help the broader team move faster
About You
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of experience in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization
Track record of owning ambiguous, cross-functional problems end to end and influencing roadmap or leadership decisions
Ability to design and run rigorous experiments and come up with scientifically sound recommendations
Ability to write complex, efficient SQL queries and code in Python or R
Ability to turn unstructured quantitative problems into business outcomes by translating business needs into analytical frameworks
Eagerness to learn, flexibility to pivot when needed, and a growth mindset in a dynamic environment
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with the analytical and strategic challenges of working on problems in a multi-sided marketplace
Experience building, evaluating, and improving statistical, machine learning, and optimization models
Experience working with geospatial data and methods
Experience with experimentation in a product-driven setting and in developing experimentation capabilities and tooling
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings to leadership, product, and engineering teams
MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or a similar field
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CAN
$161,000—$170,000 CAD

About Instacart

Software Development · 1,001-5,000 employees · headquartered in San Francisco, CA