The opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead the Meals initiative — one of Instacart's top strategic priorities for 2027. This role is focused on scaling data science work following the MVP launch, with metric tracking and experimentation at the core.
What you'll do
Lead data science for the Meals initiative, owning the post-MVP scale-up of DS systems and infrastructure
Design, build, and maintain metric tracking frameworks to measure the impact: of Meals on engagement, activation, and reactivation
Drive experimentation strategy: from hypothesis definition to analysis and recommendation — to guide product decisions
Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers to align on: strategy and communicate data-driven insights
Contribute to a 0→1 initiative at a critical inflection point, helping define what success looks like at scale
Proven experience in consumer-facing product data science, partnering closely: with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and Data Engineers
What they're looking for
- Experience bridging offline evaluation metrics (e.g., NDCG, precision/recall,: human evaluation) with online experiments and business outcomes.
- Background in causal inference beyond standard A/B tests (e.g., holdouts,: diff-in-diff, quasi-experiments) to measure long-term or cross-surface effects.
- Proven impact improving logging, instrumentation, and metric definitions in complex data environments.
- Experience launching new features in new markets, or launching 0-1 initiatives
