Overview
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.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Instacart’s marketing data science team serves as thought partners and problem solvers for the Growth and Marketing orgs, supporting our broader mission to give everyone access to the food they love. We are responsible for understanding the end to end scope of growth marketing, including how marketing shapes and impacts customer behavior both today and in the long run, the efficiency and performance of any marketing technology we utilize, and what the highest ROI investments are in both marketing and marketing technology. We synthesize our insights and knowledge into actionable tactics, optimizations, and strategy within marketing.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Own analytical frameworks that guide marketing strategy and execution
- Design rigorous experiments and causal inference models to draw detailed and actionable conclusions
- Enable confident and objective decision making at both strategic and tactical levels
- Use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, economics, and experimentation to shape the future of Instacart
- Apply marketing and marketing technology domain knowledge to identify high-leverage opportunities and shape the team’s roadmap
- Provide mentorship to junior colleagues
ABOUT YOU
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years experience working in data-driven analytics/predictive analytics/statistical modeling/data mining (including relevant academic experience)
- Ability to run rigorous experiments or causal inference studies to come up with scientifically sound recommendations
- Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks
- Ability to code in Python or R and write complex, efficient SQL queries to extract data
- Good understanding of how to grow and shape data tools and datasets to improve data-driven decision making
- Ability to thrive in a fast-changing and high-visibility team environment, working autonomously on a strong team to find opportunity and deliver business impact
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Excited about building a world-class marketing data science organization
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD or MS in computer science, machine learning, statistics, physics, mathematics, economics, or other relevant STEM fields
- 2+ years domain experience in marketing or transferable domain, especially at fast-growing B2C companies
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.