Senior Data Scientist — Analytics Leader & Mentor

DoorDash; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Data Scientist to mentor others and analyze large datasets to guide decision-making across teams. You will tackle challenges from customer acquisition to marketplace efficiency and new city launches.

The role emphasizes building analytics solutions, presenting insights to product leaders, and collaborating with engineering to implement robust logging and measurement practices.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in data analytics, consulting, or related role.
• Experience with funnel optimization, user segmentation, cohort analyses, time series analyses, regression models.
• Proficiency in SQL, ETL, A/B Testing, and statistical analysis with Python/R/Matlab/SAS.

Responsibilities

• Build analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards using SQL, R, Python, or other tools.
• Mentor junior analysts and guide advanced methods.
• Provide insights to leadership on marketplace dynamics, user behavior, and long-term trends.
• Collaborate with engineering to implement, document, and monitor logging.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

A/B Testing

Data Visualization

Statistics

Mentoring

Experiment design

Education

Bachelor's degree (Math/Stats/CS)

Tools

Tableau

Looker

Matlab

SAS

Job description

DoorDash is seeking a Data Scientist to mentor others and analyze large datasets to guide decision-making across teams. You will tackle challenges from customer acquisition to marketplace efficiency and new city launches.

The role emphasizes building analytics solutions, presenting insights to product leaders, and collaborating with engineering to implement robust logging and measurement practices.