Sr. Data Scientist

Instacart; Calgary; Remote; CAD 158,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking experienced data scientists to join a dynamic team focused on transforming grocery shopping. In this role, you will tackle complex marketplace challenges, develop analytical frameworks, and drive product improvements through data-driven insights. With a flexible work environment, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence decision-making and enhance user experience. This is a fantastic opportunity to leverage your expertise in a growing organization that values innovation and strategic thinking. If you are passionate about data science and want to make a real impact, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Equity Grants

Annual Refresh Grants

Flexible Work Environment

Market-Competitive Compensation

Qualifications

• 6+ years in a quantitative role at a product company or research organization.
• Expertise in SQL, Python, or R for data extraction and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own analytical frameworks guiding product roadmap and decision-making.
• Design experiments and develop statistical models for product performance.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Causal Inference

Machine Learning

Complex Systems Modeling

Behavioral Decision Theory

Education

MS/PhD in Statistics

MS/PhD in Economics

MS/PhD in Applied Mathematics

Tools

Dashboards

Analytical Tools

Job description

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.

OVERVIEW

About the Role

This is a general posting for multiple Sr. Data Science roles open across our 4-sided marketplace. 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. You can find a blurb on each team at the bottom of this page.

With regards to level, we have flexibility. Your level will be determined by your education, years of experience, and most importantly, how you perform throughout the interview process. If you're targeting a senior title, you'll need to prove to the team that you're operating at that level.

About the Team

You will be joining a growing data science team and will tackle some of the most challenging and impactful problems that are transforming how people buy groceries every day. You will be embedded within our data-driven product team as a trusted partner in uncovering barriers in the product’s usability and utilize these insights to inform product improvements that drive angle-changing growth. We’re looking for a self-driven, strategic thinker who can hit the ground running to ultimately influence decision-making across the entire organization.

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 product
• Build simulations to project 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

• 6+ years experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization
• 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 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Awareness of business trade offs when working on a multi-sided marketplace
• Confidence in collaborating with and influencing cross-functional stakeholders (i.e. Product, Engineering), at a senior level
• MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a similar field

OPEN ROLES:

Marketplace Balancing & Coordination

We are looking for an experienced data scientist with a background in complex and dynamic marketplace problems. The successful candidate will take on a leading role working on Instacart’s core marketplace problems including shopper pay and incentives, marketplace balancing, and experimentation. The role will partner with senior product managers and engineers to tackle analytical, experimental, and inferential problems to understand and expand the efficient frontiers of a balanced, sustainable, and resilient multi-sided marketplace.

Partnerships

We are looking for an experienced data scientist that will work on Partnerships. The Partnership team launches needle-moving partnerships with a range of companies, such as Peacock, to drive incremental growth for Instacart. We are in search of an experienced data scientist to join our team and support this critical growth initiative. The successful candidate will be responsible for advancing our measurement frameworks, as well as driving insights via experimentations and comprehensive data analyses.

#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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

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.

For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CAN

$158,000—$208,000 CAD