Tech Lead Manager

Summary

Join Instacart's Growth and Marketing team as an experienced Data Science Tech Lead Manager. You will build and lead a high-performing team of data scientists, driving strategy through data and analysis. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality, designing experiments, developing statistical models, and presenting findings to leadership. The role requires extensive experience in a quantitative role, leading technical projects, and mentoring junior data scientists. Preferred qualifications include experience managing data science teams focused on growth and marketing, and familiarity with marketing attribution methodologies. Instacart offers competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants and a flexible remote work policy.

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
• 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

• Build and lead a high-performing team of data scientists
• 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 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 leading teams working on growth, marketing channels, promotions, incentives, CRM
• Familiarity with marketing attribution, incremental methodologies, and marketing mix models
• Experience working on gig economy issues or multi-sided marketplaces

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• Equity grant
• Annual refresh grants