Senior Data Scientist - Shopping Experience (Search)

Senior Data Scientist (I & II)

Instacart

We're transforming the grocery industry 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview This is a general posting for multiple Senior Data Science roles open across our 4-sided marketplace. Roles are open at both the L5 (Senior Data Scientist I) and L6 (Senior Data Scientist II) levels. You’ll get the chance to learn about the different problems the Data Science team solves as you go through the process. Towards the end of your process, we’ll do a team-matching exercise to determine which of the open roles/teams you’ll join. At the bottom of this posting, you’ll find a breakdown of the currently open roles.   About the Job * Own analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap. * Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions. * Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our products. * Build simulations to project the impact of various product and policy interventions. * 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, behavioral decision theory, etc., to shape the future of Instacart. * Present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart’s leadership.   About You Minimum Qualifications * 5+ years of experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization. * Ability to run rigorous experiments and generate scientifically sound recommendations. * 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 a dynamic environment, and a growth mindset to build a successful team and company.   Preferred Qualifications * Awareness of business trade-offs when working on a multi-sided marketplace. * Confidence in collaborating with and influencing cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Product, Engineering) at a senior level. * MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.   Currently Opened Roles Order Experiences (Search) | Sr. Data Scientist I (L5/6) The Order Experiences (Search) team is focused on making it fast and effortless for customers to find the right items and complete their order with confidence. As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll own the analytics and experimentation strategy that powers how we interpret customer intent and surface the most relevant results—driving search conversion, order rate, and GTV. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and ML to shape the roadmap for search relevance and ranking quality, running experiments across retrieval, ranking, and search UX while connecting offline model evaluation to real-world business outcomes. Ecosystems | Sr. Data Scientist II (L6) The Ecosystems team tackles some of Instacart’s most strategic macro-level analytical challenges, including quantifying the impact of economic trends, competitive dynamics, and seasonality on core business metrics. As a Senior Data Scientist II, you’ll own time-series forecasting for key business outcomes, develop measurement frameworks for evaluating competing growth initiatives, and build AI tooling to scale analytics workflows across the team. This role also carries a technical leadership dimension—you’ll set the methodological bar, mentor peers, and review analyses to drive rigor across the organization. Delivery | Sr. Data Scientist II (L6) The Delivery team is dedicated to ensuring customers receive their complete orders seamlessly, spanning the full flow from capturing customer information to coordinating the shopper experience. As a Senior Data Scientist II, you’ll identify strategic opportunities to enhance the delivery experience, design and execute rigorous experiments to evaluate new product features, and leverage geospatial data and advanced analytical techniques to optimize logistics. You’ll also proactively identify high-risk delivery scenarios and develop solutions to the underlying systemic issues that drive them. Marketing | Sr. Data Scientist I (L5) The Marketing Data Science team is responsible for measurement and optimization across Instacart’s paid digital channels, including search, shopping, display, social, and video. As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll build and maintain sophisticated attribution models—including multi-touch and incrementality-based approaches—and develop scalable data pipelines to turn raw marketing data into clean, analysis-ready datasets. You’ll apply causal inference methods such as geo holdouts and difference-in-differences to evaluate campaign effectiveness, partnering closely with marketing, data engineering, and business teams to define measurement frameworks and drive data-informed decisions. You'll also model user lifetime value (LTV) across acquisition cohorts, quantifying how marketing spend and channel mix influence long-term retention and monetization to inform budget allocation and growth strategy #LI-Remote 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. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. 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 $194,000—$230,000 USD WA $185,000—$220,500 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $177,000—$211,000 USD All other states $161,000—$192,000 USD

Senior Product Manager, Shopping Experience

Instacart

We're transforming the grocery industry 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. OVERVIEW Instacart’s Shopping Experience team is focused on making it effortless for people to discover, plan, and shop the food that fuels their lives. We’re building intuitive, trustworthy experiences that help customers find inspiration, make healthier choices, and get from idea to checkout with confidence. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our Health product area. In this role, you will shape the vision, strategy, and roadmap for how Instacart helps customers discover and shop food that honors dietary needs and helps them achieve their health goals. You’ll partner closely with design, research, engineering, data science, and go-to-market teams to translate deep user empathy into delightful, impactful products. This is a highly visible, zero-to-one opportunity—ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, rolls up their sleeves to execute, and loves building startup-style products within the scale of Instacart. You’ll join a focused pod within Shopping Experience with 6 engineers, 1 data scientist, 1 designer, and 1 user researcher, and collaborate across a broader group of product managers in the organization. The features you ship will be used by millions of customers every week, giving you the chance to drive meaningful outcomes at scale. We’re a remote-friendly, fast-moving team that values clear communication, ownership, and collaborative problem solving to serve customers better every day. ABOUT THE JOB * Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Health within Shopping Experience, driving zero-to-one bets from discovery through scaled launch and iteration. * Partner with design and research to deeply understand customer needs across inspiration, dietary filters, and health-forward discovery; translate insights into simple, elegant product experiences. * Define success metrics and run a rigorous experimentation program (A/B tests, multivariate tests) to improve core outcomes such as engagement, conversion, and retention. * Work cross-functionally with engineering, data science, operations, partnerships, legal, and privacy to deliver responsibly built features at scale, balancing speed with quality and compliance considerations. * Build alignment across diverse stakeholders, communicate tradeoffs and decisions with clarity, and ruthlessly prioritize to maximize customer and business impact in a fast-paced environment. ABOUT YOU You combine customer obsession with data-driven decision making, communicate crisply across functions, and are energized by turning ambiguity into clear, measurable outcomes. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS * 6+ years of product management experience building consumer products, including ownership of end-to-end user experiences from discovery through launch and iteration. * Proven track record shipping zero-to-one products with measurable impact (for example: improved conversion, retention, or engagement) and scaling them to broad adoption. * Hands-on experience collaborating with product design and user research to convert insights into clear PRDs, prototypes, and shipped features. * Data fluency with experimentation and analytics (for example: defining success metrics, partnering on A/B tests, interpreting results; SQL proficiency or equivalent analytics tooling experience). * Experience operating in highly cross-functional environments, influencing without authority, and aligning multiple stakeholder groups to a clear roadmap. * Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (such as Computer Science, Engineering, Design, Business, or a related discipline) or equivalent practical experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience in health, nutrition, wellness, or other regulated consumer product spaces. * Background in e-commerce, marketplaces, personalization/recommendation systems, search, or content experiences. * Startup or “startup within a startup” experience leading products from zero-to-one in high-ambiguity, fast-moving environments. * Familiarity with third-party integrations relevant to health (for example: recipes, nutrition data, or health data platforms). * Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, including the ability to drive alignment across executive and cross-functional audiences. #LI-Remote 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. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. 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 $221,000—$233,000 USD WA $212,000—$223,500 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $203,000—$214,000 USD All other states $184,000—$194,000 USD

Senior Data Scientist II - Core Delivery

Instacart

We're transforming the grocery industry 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Core Delivery team at Instacart is dedicated to ensuring customers receive their complete orders seamlessly, spanning the full flow from capturing customer information to coordinating the shopper experience. As a Senior Data Scientist II, you’ll identify strategic opportunities to enhance the delivery experience, design and execute rigorous experiments to evaluate new product features, and leverage geospatial data and advanced analytical techniques to optimize delivery experience. You’ll also proactively identify high-risk delivery scenarios and develop solutions to the underlying systemic issues that drive them. About the Job * Own analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap. * Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions. * Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our products. * Build simulations to project the impact of various product and policy interventions. * 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, behavioral decision theory, etc., to shape the future of Instacart. * Present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart’s leadership. About You Minimum Qualifications * 7+ years of experience working in a data science or ML role at a product company. * Ability to run rigorous experiments and generate scientifically sound recommendations. * Strong SQL skills for data extraction and transformation from relational databases. * Proficiency in Python or R for data manipulation and statistical analysis, including libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, or equivalent. * Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks. Preferred Qualifications * Experience with geospatial analysis techniques. * MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.   #LI-remote 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. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. 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 $218,000—$230,000 USD WA $209,000—$220,500 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $200,000—$211,000 USD All other states $182,000—$192,000 USD