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.
OVERVIEW
The Ecosystems team sits at the center of Instacart and supports our executive team directly by working on the largest problems at the company that span multiple functional areas. The mission of the team is to better measure the health of Instacart today, understand and assess the trajectory of our company for the next 6-12 months, and inform the development of our 2-3 year strategy.
ABOUT THE JOB
This role requires a generalist mindset to use data to drive the company forward. You will be responsible for shaping business priorities and identifying product opportunities through analysis and modeling. This role will work closely with company leaders, product managers, economists, finance, ops and other data scientists to:
- Set the course: Connect the business strategy to trends behind business performance, both at a macro and micro level
- Steer the ship: Identify and prioritize new product opportunities using data
- Create the future: Build intelligent systems that use data to improve decision making at the executive level and within products
The team is still new and the scope is expansive. The role requires a self starter who can:
- Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of the business
- Build simulations to project impact of various product and policy interventions
- Use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, complex systems modeling and behavioral decision theory to shape the future of Instacart
- Ramp up quickly on new topics through a passion for learning about all sides of the business
- Drive critical efforts to completion with little oversight
- Bring new ideas to the team that get incorporated into the overall business strategy
- Enable objective decision making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools
- Present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart’s leadership
ABOUT YOU
- 5+ years experience working in a data science or quantitative role at a product company or a research organization
- Ability to write complex, efficient, and eloquent SQL queries to extract data
- Ability to write efficient and eloquent code in Python or R
- A desire to build and improve consumer software products
- Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks
- Eagerness to learn, flexibility to pivot when needed, savviness to navigate and thrive in a dynamic environment, and a growth mindset needed to build a successful team and company