Director of Data Science, Ads
We're transforming the grocery industry
Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Since 2012, we’ve been working towards creating a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.
Groceries delivered to your door in as little as an hour. It seems simple, right? Well, it’s more complex than that. From re-routing deliveries during snowstorms, to connecting customers with coupons and deals for their favorite brands, to updating over half a billion grocery data lines every night...our efforts bring Instacart closer to being the operating system for the grocery industry.
Solving these problems is what helps our customers get back time in their day, so they can do more of what they love.
Introducing Our Hybrid Working Model
As the future of work evolves, so do we. We have a hybrid model where our roles are open to in-office, flex, or remote work. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
OVERVIEW
Instacart is looking to hire an accomplished Director of Data Science with a strong background in Ads, with experience leading a world-class team at a late stage high-growth company. In this position, you will work closely with senior product and engineering leadership to grow and drive Instacart’s ads revenue into a multi-billion dollar business. Ideally, we are looking for a leader who is commercially minded with a strong understanding of margins and previous experience hiring and building an exceptional team of data scientists.
You’ll oversee opportunity identification, experiment design, forecasting, and metrics/reporting design to help our ads teams operate effectively and play a significant role in helping us grow and multiply our ads revenue over the next 2-3 years.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Build and lead a high-performance data science team, including other data science managers, and be responsible for your organization's productivity, operational excellence and business impact
- Oversee opportunity identification, experiment design, forecasting, and metrics/reporting across multiple pillars of Instacart Ads business
- Communicate your team’s work and directly assist senior leaders in decision making
- Grow current team from 5 to 15+ data scientists in the next 12-18 months
- Prioritize and set the vision for your team’s work, making difficult tradeoffs on design based on business constraints, ensuring on-time deliverables and high-quality analyses
- Participate in interviewing, hiring decisions, on-boarding, and mentoring of new data scientists with the goal of quickly making them productive members of your team
- Develop a team culture of ownership that reinforces the core values of Instacart!
ABOUT YOU
- BS/MS in Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Economics, Physics, or related field
- PhD in Statistics, Math, Computer Science or Economics is a plus
- 10+ years of experience in Data Science, Quantitative and/or Product Analytics
- 5+ years of progressive leadership experience, leading teams of 12+, including managers
- 3+ years of experience working in Ads/Monetization
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to influence and collaborate in cross-functional capacity with leaders in engineering, product, finance, etc.
- Good Product Judgment; Commercially minded with a strong understanding of margins
#LI-Remote