Sr. Director, Data Science - Core Experience

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Ecommerce, Effective communication skills, Machine learning techniques, Supply Chain Management

Job Description

On the Core Experience team, we aim to serve the needs of our retailers while providing a consistent experience for our users. Here, we work on the most consumer-facing problems, running a huge number of user experiments to deeply understand the impacts of every decision, rollout and update to our core offerings. We’re tasked with driving Instacart’s future core shopping vision and experience across Instacart App and the white-label softwares we provide to retailers (i.e. Costco).

About the Job

• Build and grow a high-performing team of data scientists.
• Oversee the design of rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
• Lead the development of statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our technologies & products.
• 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 Core products.
• Present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart’s leadership and product decision making.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization.
• 7+ years of experience managing a team of data scientists, economists or product analysts.
• Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks & superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to influence and collaborate in cross-functional capacity with leaders in engineering, product, finance, etc.
• 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.
• Experience in building and maturing Data Science teams and infrastructure in a startup environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Statistics, Analytics, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience working in the gig-economy, supply chain, ecommerce, or retail industries.

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.

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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ

$311,000—$345,000 USD

WA

$298,000—$331,000 USD

OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI

$285,000—$317,000 USD

All other states

$257,000—$286,000 USD