OVERVIEW

You will be joining as an early leader on a growing data science team and will tackle some of the most challenging and impactful problems that are transforming how people buy groceries every day. As a Staff Data Scientist, the team will look to you to be embedded within our data-driven product team as a trusted partner in uncovering barriers in the product's usability and utilize these insights to inform product improvements that drive angle-changing growth. We're looking for a self-driven, strategic thinker who can hit the ground running to ultimately influence decision-making across the entire organization.

ABOUT THE JOB

• Own analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap
• Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions
• Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our product
• Build simulations to project impact of various product and policy interventions
• Enable objective decision making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools
• Use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, complex systems modeling, behavioral decision theory etc. to shape the future of Instacart
• Present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart's leadership
• Have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives
• Grow and level up the people around you. The team should be better at what they do because of your presence.

• 8+ years experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization
• 2+ years experience in a Staff or leadership role
• Ability to run rigorous experiments and come up with scientifically sound recommendations
• Ability to write complex, efficient, and eloquent SQL queries to extract data
• Ability to write efficient and eloquent code in Python or R
• A desire to build and improve consumer software products
• Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks
• Eagerness to learn, flexibility to pivot when needed, savviness to navigate and thrive in a dynamic environment, and a growth mindset needed to build a successful team and company