About the job
Overview
Are you passionate about data science? Do you describe yourself as an innovative problem solver? Looking for an opportunity that will directly impact the customer experience at Gopuff? Come join the Gopuff Data Science team and #ChangeTheGame. Gopuff is a high-growth startup that is revolutionizing hyper-local instant e-commerce. We warehouse and deliver tens of thousands of products to your door super fast.
As a Principal Data Scientist at Gopuff working on the Delivery Technology Team, you will lead the vision and delivery of data driven models to optimize the delivery experience for consumers and delivery partners on our platform across dispatch optimization, delivery routing/ETAs, driver pricing/incentives, as well as the delivery partner experience. All of that, with a direct impact on the delivery experience that is so core to serving our customers’ immediate needs, means you’ll have the opportunity to make a huge impact on the future success of Gopuff.
We’re looking for a doer, problem solver, and thought-leader.
You Will:
- Collaborate with our business, product, and engineering partners across the organization to vision and deliver data science solutions for practical business problems
- Deeply understand our users, our products, and our data to identify opportunities for creating machine learning, optimization and causal inference solutions to deliver a better customer experience and make our business more efficient
- Build data driven, robust and replicable data science models
- Use experimentation and causal inference to measure the impact of our models on user engagement and business metrics
- Serve as a tech lead on the Delivery Technology DS team
- Provide mentorship to junior data scientists on the team
You Have:
- 5+ years of industrial experiences in data science
- MS or PhD in Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or other quantitative field
- Strong ability in translating ambiguous business problems into well-defined technical objectives and providing concrete data science solutions.
- Expert in machine learning, statistics, and experimentation.
- Proficient in Python, SQL, and source control management tools.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills (to both technical and business audiences).
- Effective, resilient, resourceful, and kind.
- Experience in delivery tech
- Experience in dispatch optimization