Instacart is looking to solve complex and dynamic marketplace problems including dynamic pricing, matching, and experimentation to understand and expand the efficient frontiers of a balanced, sustainable, and resilient multi-sided marketplace.
Requirements
- Experience designing experiments and interpreting results to draw actionable conclusions.
- Proficiency in SQL and writing queries for complex datasets.
- Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis and modeling.
- Experience working with multi-sided marketplaces.
- Experience working in dynamic pricing, auction, and matching problem spaces
- Hands-on experience developing and evaluating statistical, machine learning, or optimization models.
- Hands-on experience in experimentation design, methods, and tooling in a product-driven organization.
Responsibilities
- Define and enhance analytical frameworks that guide product decision-making and strategy.
- Design and analyze experiments to derive actionable insights for improving product and system performance.
- Build models and simulations to predict the outcomes of marketplace and policy changes.
- Support the development and refinement of algorithms governing marketplace fulfillment systems.
- Collaborate on strategic projects to improve experimentation capabilities and analytical tooling.
- Help shape Instacart’s marketplace through your expertise in areas such as causal inference, machine learning, forecasting, or optimization modeling.
- Clearly communicate findings and recommendations to leadership and cross-functional teams.
Other
- 2+ years of experience in a data science, analytics, or equivalent role.
- Ability to turn loosely defined problems into clearly structured analyses and business outcomes.
- Strong analytical mindset, flexibility to adapt in a fast-changing environment, and eagerness to learn and grow.
- Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and leadership engagement
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Mathematics, or a related field.
