Position Summary:
As Data Science manager for Emerging Products, you’ll hire and lead a team of data scientists responsible for growing and driving Instacart’s growth into new and emerging markets. Your team will define how Instacart thinks about new markets as well as how we expand the number of use cases that customers turn to Instacart for. You will be a trusted partner to Directors of Product, and Engineering. We’re looking for an experienced leader who can hit the ground running and influence decision-making across the entire organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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 will be responsible for the health of your teams’ data – its completeness and its quality
- Build and lead a high-performing team of data scientists
- 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 present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart’s leadership
- You and your team will have a high impact on your stakeholder teams, product and operations, and will hold yourselves 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 enable objective decision making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools
Required Education & Experience:
- 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
- Experience leading teams working on growth, new products, or ecommerce is a plus.
- 2+ years of experience managing a team of data scientists is a plus
- A desire to build and improve consumer software products
- Ability to run rigorous experiments and come up with scientifically sound recommendations
- 5+ years experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization
- Ability to write complex, efficient, and eloquent SQL queries to extract data