Remote Data Scientist

Summary

Join Instacart's growing data science team and tackle challenging problems that transform how people buy groceries every day. As a self-driven, strategic thinker, you'll influence decision-making across the organization and shape the future of Instacart.

Requirements

• 2+ 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Awareness of business trade offs when working on a multi-sided marketplace
• Confidence in collaborating with and influencing cross-functional stakeholders (i.e. Product, Engineering), at a senior level
• MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a similar field

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• New hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants