Senior Data Scientist – Meals

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About the role

  • Senior Data Scientist leading experimentation, metrics, and scale-up for Instacart’s Meals initiative. Driving engagement, activation, and reactivation for the grocery-delivery platform.

Responsibilities

  • Lead data science for the Meals initiative, owning post-MVP scale-up of data science systems and infrastructure
  • Design, build, and maintain metric-tracking frameworks for engagement, activation, and reactivation
  • Drive experimentation strategy from hypothesis definition through analysis and recommendation
  • Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers to align strategy and communicate data-driven insights
  • Contribute to a 0→1 initiative and help define success at scale

Requirements

  • Proven experience in consumer-facing product data science, partnering with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and Data Engineers
  • Strong foundation in product and data analysis, A/B experimentation, causal inference, and statistical modeling
  • Experience defining KPIs and optimizing funnels for product-market fit
  • Excellent communication skills with senior business and engineering stakeholders
  • 4+ years of work experience in data science or a related field
  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering) or equivalent practical experience
  • Preferred: experience bridging offline evaluation metrics with online experiments and business outcomes
  • Preferred: causal inference beyond standard A/B tests
  • Preferred: improving logging, instrumentation, and metric definitions in complex data environments
  • Preferred: launching new features in new markets or launching 0-1 initiatives

Benefits

  • Flexible work location: home, office, or favorite coffee shop
  • Regular in-person events
  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Market-competitive compensation and benefits

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$161,000 - $204,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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