Manager, Data Science - Value
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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.
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OVERVIEW
Instacart is looking to hire a Data Science Manager with experience leading world-class teams at a high-growth company. In this position, you will partner with senior product and engineering leadership to drive customers’ perception of Value on Instacart. The Value team mandate is to make Instacart affordable and accessible for everyone.
As the Data Science Manager for Instacart’s Value pillar, you’ll hire and lead a team of data scientists responsible for optimizing payments, fees, and item pricing. You and your team will be responsible for building frameworks and establishing metrics related to discounting and value perception, optimizing product features related to payments and pricing, and partnering with product, risk and engineering to tackle consumer and payment fraud. You will need to be a trusted partner to Directors of Product & Engineering, and be able to work cross-functionally. We’re looking for an experienced leader who can hit the ground running and influence decision-making across the entire organization.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Lead a high-performing team of data scientists
- You will be responsible for the health of your team’s data - its completeness and its quality
- You and your team will have a high impact on your stakeholder teams, product, and operations; you will hold yourself accountable to measurable improvements in business outcomes
- You and your team will design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions
- You and your team will develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our product
- You and your team will enable objective decision making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools
- You and your team will use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, complex systems modeling, behavioral decision theory etc. to shape the future of Instacart
- You and your team will present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart’s leadership
ABOUT YOU
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years experience working in a quantitative role at a product or ecommerce company
- 2+ years experience managing a team of data scientists
- Ability to run rigorous experiments and come up with scientifically sound recommendations
- Ability to write complex, efficient, and eloquent SQL queries to extract data
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Graduate degree in Statistics, Analytics, Economics, or a related field
- Experience working in the ecommerce, retail, or CPG industries
- Experience leading teams working on growth, new products, payments, pricing, or fraud
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