DoorDash
Technology
SeniorDataScientist
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“Senior Data Scientist at DoorDash. Skills: Data Science, Analytics, Business Intelligence. Provide insights to understand marketplace dynamics. Provide insights to understand user behaviours”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive growth; Drive operational excellence
Industry & Context.
Ambiguous problems; Structured problem solving; Hypothesis-driven problem solving; Data-supported problem solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years of experience, Degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or similar, Very experienced with SQL queries, Basic ETL, Regression techniques, Proficiency in Python or R, Experience with experimentation techniques, Experience with A/B testing, Experience with Causal Inference, Experience interpreting hypothesis testing
Nice to Have
PhD preferred, Specific ML framework experience, Cloud platform certs
What You'll Do.
Provide insights to understand marketplace dynamics
Provide insights to understand user behaviours
Provide insights to understand long-term trends
Use quantitative analysis
Build full-cycle analytics experiments
Identify levers to move metrics
Measure levers to move metrics
Understand and size problems
Produce recommendations
Use statistical techniques
Use hypothesis testing
Use experimentation techniques
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Strategy & Operations teams; Executive Leadership Team; Cross-functional team; Strategy, operations, product, finance and engineering
Process & Methodology
Strategic projects
Full Job Description
About the Team DoorDash is a complex and constantly evolving business; The global BizOps team is primarily responsible for crafting the story about business performance (what’s happening, why is it happening, what we should do about it), diving deep on key KPI trends, and surfacing insights and recommendations to stakeholders to ensure we understand our current business climate and react in a data-informed manner. About the Role You will be a key BizOps partner, working closely with the Strategy & Operations team and the ANZ Executive Leadership Team to turn data into actionable insights—understanding what is happening, why it is happening, and what actions should be taken next. You will focus on the ANZ markets, helping to drive strategic initiatives across the region. You will adapt and apply best practices from the US business to local market dynamics while providing data-driven recommendations that inform business decisions. DoorDash operates a three-sided marketplace comprising Consumers, Merchants, and Dashers. In this role, you will work across all three groups to identify opportunities, solve complex business challenges, and drive growth and operational excellence. This is a hybrid role, with 3 days in-office and 2 days remote. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Be a first-class thought partner to our Strategy & Operations and Executive teams and help them make decisions on what’s next for DoorDash Provide insights to enable our cross-functional team to understand marketplace dynamics, user behaviours, and long-term trends Use quantitative analysis and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand what drives our business Build full-cycle analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards using SQL, Python, R, or other scripting and statistical tools Identify and measure levers to help move essential metrics and make recommendations Work backwards from understanding and sizing problems to ideating solutions Produce recomm
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