Senior Data Scientist

October 16, 2024

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Instacart

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Instacart is a company that offers a flexible approach to work while transforming the grocery industry. It provides an essential service by delivering groceries and household goods to customers' doors in as little as 30 minutes. Instacart offers safe and flexible earning opportunities to personal shoppers and tackles challenges such as rerouting deliveries during snowstorms and connecting customers with coupons and deals. It aims to be the operating system for the grocery industry, thus helping customers save time for other activities. Instacart emphasizes diversity, equity, and belonging in its work culture.

Grocery Delivery • online grocery

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

🛒 Retail

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization. • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. • Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. • This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. • Read more about our benefits offerings here.