Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist

The role

Data Scientists use quantitative analysis to guide decision-making and uncover insights across various teams. They build analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards to understand business drivers and marketplace dynamics.

What you will do

• Use quantitative analysis and data presentation to understand business drivers
• Build full-cycle analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards using SQL, R, Python, or other tools
• Work with and mentor junior analysts
• Produce recommendations and use statistical techniques and hypothesis testing to validate findings
• Provide insights to help business and product leaders understand marketplace dynamics and user behaviors
• Identify and measure levers to help move essential metrics
• Work backwards from understanding and sizing problems to ideating solutions
• Report against goals by building executive-facing dashboards
• Collaborate with engineering to implement, document, validate, and monitor logging

Required 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 (e.g. hypothesis testing, experimentation, regressions) with statistical packages, such as Matlab, R, SAS or Python
• Proficiency in one or more 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

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program

Before you apply

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About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. Its mission is to empower local economies.