Data Science Manager, Shopping Experience

1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
instacart.careers

instacart.careers

Instacart is a leading grocery technology company in North America that works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. They partner with over 1,000 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery, an...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K

Description

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data scientists, including setting priorities and developing career paths.
  • Define and own the analytics and experimentation strategy across key shopping surfaces, including metrics, guardrails, instrumentation, and best practices.
  • Own core shopping metrics and event logging, improve data quality, and build reusable dashboards and tools.
  • Drive analyses that uncover friction in shopping funnels and partner with Product and Engineering to prioritize fixes.
  • Work with Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations to define measurable goals and align on tradeoffs and roadmaps.
  • Set the standard for experiment design and readouts, including hypothesis formation, sampling, power analysis, and metric selection.
  • Collaborate with ML partners on ranking, recommendations, and personalization initiatives.
  • Improve cross-functional rituals such as experiment reviews and prioritization forums to increase speed and rigor.
  • Ensure AI and agentic features are grounded in robust measurement frameworks with clear success definitions.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in data science or analytics, including 2+ years directly managing or tech-leading a data science team.
  • Proven experience optimizing consumer app experiences at scale, such as funnels, ranking, personalization, or experimentation.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in experimentation and measurement, including A/B testing, guardrails, metrics design, and logging or event instrumentation.
  • Strong analytical and technical skills with proficiency in SQL and Python or R.
  • Experience translating ambiguous customer and retailer problems into clear metrics, analyses, and experiment roadmaps.
  • Demonstrated cross-functional leadership with Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations, with the ability to influence without formal authority.
  • Track record of improving data quality, instrumentation, and reusable dashboards or tools.
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, or consumer mobile apps, especially grocery, retail, or multi-retailer environments (preferred).
  • Background in ranking, recommendation, or personalization systems and their evaluation (preferred).
  • Experience scaling experimentation programs, including governance, tiering, or review forums (preferred).
  • Experience partnering with ML teams on production models and offline/online evaluation strategies (preferred).
  • Familiarity with GenAI and AI-assisted workflows (preferred).

Benefits

  • Remote role with Flex First work flexibility, allowing employees to work from home, an office, or another preferred location.
  • Highly market-competitive compensation based on work location.
  • Base salary range in the US from $182,000 to $230,000 depending on location.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant.
  • Eligible for annual refresh equity grants.
  • Access to Instacart benefits offerings.

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