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Oct 04, 2024 - Instacart is hiring a remote Staff Data Scientist - Shopper Engagement. 💸 Salary: $198,000 - $265,000 usd. 📍Location: USA.
We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
OVERVIEW
Instacart’s core product is grocery delivery. Grocery delivery relies on high quality shoppers picking, paying for, and delivering grocery orders to customers. The Shopper team builds the technology to power each of these steps with the Engagement team focusing on maximizing batches fulfilled by high quality shoppers.
ABOUT THE JOB
You would be responsible for driving Engagement data science work which includes:
The two most important responsibility areas of this role are product strategy and intelligent systems.
Product strategy: The best products are built with diversity of thought. Data scientists uniquely understand the available data, the business domain, and the advanced methods that can be applied to the data to drive the desired business outcome. There are two primary methods data scientists would add value in product strategy:
Intelligent systems: Intelligent systems make products smarter by combining deep domain expertise with advanced statistical or ML approaches. Data scientists are uniquely positioned to combine their understanding of the domain and advanced statistical methods to rapidly iterate on different approaches to building an intelligent system to solve an ambiguous problem. They would invest time in creating the initial version of the intelligent systems while partnering with MLEs and SWEs to maximize the impact, scalability, and maintainability of the system.
The role requires strong XFN collaboration where an ideal candidate can:
About the Team
You will be joining a growing data science team and will tackle some of the most challenging and impactful problems that are transforming how people buy groceries every day. You will be embedded within our data-driven product team as a trusted partner in uncovering barriers in the product’s usability and utilize these insights to inform product improvements that drive angle-changing growth. We’re looking for a self-driven, strategic thinker who can hit the ground running to ultimately influence decision-making across the entire organization.
ABOUT YOU
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
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. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
🇺🇸 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA Only |
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Salary
|
Remote
Location
🇺🇸
USA Only
|
Job Type
Full-time
|
Posted
2mths ago
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🇺🇸 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA Only |
‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. | ️
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