Senior Analytics Lead, Consumer Insights & Personalization

DoorDash; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 323,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking an Analytics Senior Manager to lead the Discovery team, guiding data scientists to improve the consumer experience and inform strategic product direction. You will develop insights, define metrics, and partner with product, engineering, strategy, and operations to measure the impact of new features.

You will oversee our analytics strategy, provide technical leadership, and build scalable data foundations to support velocity and business decisions.

Qualifications

• A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain.
• Experience managing a team of data scientists, and a track record of delivering impactful analyses.
• 8+ years of experience in Data Science and Product Analytics, primarily in related industries.
• 3+ years of experience as a people manager.
• Strength in leading through your technical chops, and ability to leverage it appropriate in the business context.
• Deep understanding of, and hands-on experience with experimentation.
• Experience with data pipelines.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional working skills, including the ability to present complex findings to non-technical audiences and influence strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Data Scientists in investigating complex issues and uncovering key drivers of our business, along with your own contributions as an Individual Contributor.
• Influence the Product and Operations roadmap by making actionable recommendations based on data.
• Interface frequently with senior leadership to showcase your team’s work and tackle complex business problems.
• Drive measurement strategy for the area under scope, defining success metrics and implementing best practices around experiment design and statistical analysis.
• Develop a strategic learning roadmap based on data observations, strategic questions, and hypotheses.

Skills

Team leadership

Data science

Experimentation

Data pipelines

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Degree in Math/Physics/Statistics/Economics/CS

Job description

DoorDash is seeking an Analytics Senior Manager to lead the Discovery team, guiding data scientists to improve the consumer experience and inform strategic product direction. You will develop insights, define metrics, and partner with product, engineering, strategy, and operations to measure the impact of new features.

You will oversee our analytics strategy, provide technical leadership, and build scalable data foundations to support velocity and business decisions.