Instacart is seeking an experienced technical leader to manage its multi-million dollar marketing budget, focusing on measurement, rigor, and strategy to optimize marketing spend and drive business growth.
Requirements
- 8+ years experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization, including experience leading end-to-end technical projects and mentoring junior data scientists.
- Experience leading teams working on growth, marketing channels, promotions, incentives, CRM.
- Familiarity with marketing attribution, incrementality methodologies, and marketing mix models.
- Ability to run rigorous experiments and come up with scientifically sound recommendations.
- Ability to write complex, efficient, and eloquent SQL queries to extract data.
- Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks.
- 2+ years of experience directly managing a team of data scientists.
Responsibilities
- Act as the architect and technical lead for the science driving marketing investment decisions, including attribution, incrementality, experimentation, and measurement.
- Drive technical vision through individual contribution and management of a small team.
- Be responsible for the health of the team's data and analysis, ensuring completeness, rigor, and quality.
- Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
- Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance.
- Enable objective decision making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools.
- Use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, complex systems modeling, and behavioral decision theory to shape the future of Instacart.
Other
- We're transforming the grocery industry
- 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.
- A desire to build and improve consumer software products
- 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
- Experience working on gig economy issues or multi-sided marketplaces
- 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.
- 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.
- CA, NY, CT, NJ$243,000—$270,000 USD
- WA$233,000—$259,000 USD
- OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI$223,000—$248,000 USD
- All other states$202,000—$224,000 USD
