Senior Manager, Marketing Decision Science

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading marketing decision science for Instacart’s grocery delivery marketplace. Directing paid marketing measurement, budget modeling, and a team of five decision scientists and analysts.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of 5 Decision Scientists and Marketing Analysts, owning performance, growth, and day-to-day direction
  • Own end-to-end delivery of paid marketing analytics workstreams, including channel-level goal-setting, pacing, incrementality testing, acquisition and retention analysis, and Retailer Marketing measurement
  • Lead contributions to the unified marketing measurement framework, including MMM, incrementality testing, LTV, and MTA
  • Drive re-goaling, rebasing, and scenario modeling to inform marketing budget allocation
  • Serve as primary analytical point of contact for senior marketing leadership and Finance
  • Represent MDSA in MBRs, SBRs, and Pacing Meetings
  • Define and drive the Marketing Decision Science roadmap with the Director
  • Partner with Marketing Data Science on measurement architecture, LTV modeling, and measurement infrastructure
  • Improve analytical self-serve and reduce recurring reporting through tooling and automation
  • Build team capacity and coverage plans
  • Anticipate stakeholder needs and surface proactive insights

Requirements

  • 8+ years in data science, analytics, or a quantitative function
  • 3+ years managing teams of analysts or decision scientists
  • Deep expertise in paid marketing measurement, including incrementality testing, marketing mix modeling, attribution, LTV-based optimization, and channel-level performance analytics
  • Strong SQL and data fluency
  • Ability to independently own senior cross-functional relationships and represent a data science function in leadership forums
  • Ability to translate complex analyses into clear investment recommendations for non-technical audiences
  • Experience managing and developing Decision Scientists or Marketing Analysts with a high bar for quality and direct feedback delivery
  • Preferred: experience at a consumer-facing marketplace or high-growth technology company
  • Preferred: familiarity with geo-experimentation, Bayesian methods, or causal inference frameworks
  • Preferred: experience with LTV-based media optimization and budget allocation modeling
  • Preferred: background in building or overhauling channel-level reporting and pacing infrastructure

Benefits

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

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$198,000 - CA$209,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

SQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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