Senior Data Scientist: Drive Strategy & Growth

DoorDash, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash, Inc. seeks an experienced Data Scientist in San Francisco to guide measurement, strategy, and tactical decisions across teams.

You will mentor analysts, explore large datasets, and deliver data-driven recommendations to improve revenue, growth, and marketplace efficiency. You will build analytics experiments and dashboards, use hypothesis testing, and collaborate with engineering to implement monitoring and logging of key metrics.

Qualifications

• A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain.
• 2+ years of experience in data analytics, consulting, or related role.
• Experience working with funnel optimization, user segmentation, cohort analyses, time series analyses, regression models, etc.
• Expertise of SQL queries, ETL, A/B Testing, and statistical analysis with packages such as Matlab, SAS or Python.
• Proficiency in analytics & visualization tools (e.g. Chartio, Looker, Tableau).
• The insight to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way.

Responsibilities

• Use quantitative analysis and data presentation to identify what drives our business.
• Build full-cycle analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards using SQL, R, Python, or other tools.
• Mentor junior analysts on advanced methods and problem solving.
• Produce recommendations and use statistical techniques to validate findings.
• Provide insights to help leaders understand marketplace dynamics, user behaviors, and long-term trends.
• Identify and measure levers to move essential metrics and inform recommendations.
• Work from problem sizing to ideation of solutions.
• Report against goals by identifying essential metrics and executive dashboards to track progress.
• Collaborate with engineering to implement, document, validate, and monitor logging.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

SQL

R

Python

A/B Testing

Data visualization

Mentoring

Dashboards

Hypothesis testing

Education

Math/Physics/Statistics/Economics/CS

Tools

Matlab

SAS

Looker

Tableau

Job description

DoorDash, Inc. seeks an experienced Data Scientist in San Francisco to guide measurement, strategy, and tactical decisions across teams.

You will mentor analysts, explore large datasets, and deliver data-driven recommendations to improve revenue, growth, and marketplace efficiency. You will build analytics experiments and dashboards, use hypothesis testing, and collaborate with engineering to implement monitoring and logging of key metrics.