Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for its Shopping Experience team to enhance search relevance and customer satisfaction through data analytics and experimentation. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in data science, particularly in consumer-facing products, and strong analytical skills, especially with SQL and Python/R
Job Summary
Own the analytics and experimentation strategy that powers how Instacart interprets customer intent and connects it to relevant items and retailers.
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Machine Learning to shape the roadmap for search relevance, ranking quality, and latency.
Your work will translate complex, noisy signals into clear insights and recommendations that move key metrics like search conversion, order rate, and GTV.
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Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for its Shopping Experience team to enhance search relevance and customer satisfaction through data analytics and experimentation. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in data science, particularly in consumer-facing products, and strong analytical skills, especially with SQL and Python/R.
Salary
Base: $161,000 - $204,500 USD; Bonus/Equity: Eligible for new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants; Benefits: Not specified
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Own core Search metrics and funnels
Design and interpret experiments
Partner with Product, Engineering, and ML
Build deep diagnostic analyses
Connect offline model evaluation with online metrics
Improve data quality and instrumentation
Nice-to-have
Experience in search relevance
Familiarity with NLP and embeddings
Experience bridging offline and online metrics
Background in causal inference
Comfort working across web and app surfaces
Key Requirements
5+ years of experience in data science or product analytics
Advanced SQL proficiency
Proficiency in Python or R
Hands-on experience designing and analyzing A/B tests
Demonstrated ability to define success metrics
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience