Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing essential delivery services while offering flexible earning opportunities to Personal Shoppers. As a Senior Data Scientist II, you will enhance the delivery experience through strategic analysis, experimental design, and advanced analytics, while also addressing high-risk delivery scenarios.

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 products
• Build simulations to project the 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

Skills

• 7+ years of experience working in a data science or ML role at a product company
• Ability to run rigorous experiments and generate scientifically sound recommendations
• Strong SQL skills for data extraction and transformation from relational databases
• Proficiency in Python or R for data manipulation and statistical analysis, including libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, or equivalent
• Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks
• Experience with geospatial analysis techniques
• MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
• Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
• Instacart is a Flex First team
• Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events.

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