Senior Manager, Data Science

Summary

Join Instacart's Marketing data science team as a technical leader to spearhead measurement, rigor, and strategy for a multi-million dollar marketing budget. You will implement industry-leading methodologies in incrementality measurement, multi-touch attribution, and data triangulation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, marketing) to define marketing incrementality and design experimental analysis frameworks. This role involves architecting and leading the science behind marketing investment decisions, managing a small team, and ensuring data quality and rigor. You will design experiments, interpret results, develop statistical models, and create analytical tools to inform company decisions. Present findings to influence Instacart's leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization, including experience leading end-to-end technical projects and mentoring junior data scientists
• Experience leading teams working on growth, marketing channels, promotions, incentives, CRM
• Familiarity with marketing attribution, incrementality methodologies, and marketing mix models
• 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

Responsibilities

• Act as the architect and technical lead for the science driving our marketing investment decisions - attribution, incrementality, experimentation, and measurement
• Drive this technical vision through your own individual contribution and a small team that you will manage
• Be responsible for the health of your teams' data and analysis - its completeness, rigor and quality
• Have a high impact on your stakeholder teams’ products and operations, and will hold yourselves accountable to measurable improvements in business outcomes
• 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
• 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 at the highest level

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience directly managing a team of data scientists
• Experience working on gig economy issues or multi-sided marketplaces
• Experience working on gig economy issues or multi-sided marketplaces

Benefits

• 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
• 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