Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist

DoorDash

$124K — $271K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or related field
  • 2+ years experience in data analytics or consulting
  • Experience with funnel optimization, user segmentation, and regression models
  • Proficiency in SQL, ETL, and statistical analysis techniques
  • Familiarity with analytics and visualization tools like Tableau or Looker

Responsibilities

  • Mentor junior analysts in advanced analytical methods
  • Conduct quantitative analyses to derive business insights
  • Develop analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards
  • Utilize statistical techniques to validate findings
  • Collaborate with engineering on data logging implementation and monitoring
  • Analyze and report on marketplace dynamics and user behaviors

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Mental health programs and support
  • Flexible paid time off and paid sick leave
  • Family-forming assistance
  • Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match
Full Job Description
About the Team

The Analytics team is looking for experienced Data Scientists and Senior Data Scientists to guide measurement, strategy, and tactical decision-making across the company across a variety of teams and levels. Data Scientists at DoorDash work to uncover insights and turn them into relevant recommendations, driving decisions for the entire organization. Analytics is integral to all operational areas at DoorDash.
Please apply here for all non-managerial levels within the following analytics teams:
  • Consumer & Growth
  • Business Operations
  • Dasher & Logistics
  • Customer Experience & Integrity
  • Merchant, Ads & Sales
  • New Verticals
  • International Data Science
About the Role

As a Data Scientist at DoorDash, you'll use your quantitative background to mentor other scientists and dive into large datasets to guide decision-making. We solve a multitude of exciting challenges including customer acquisition, fraud and support, marketing, balancing supply and demand, new city launches, marketplace efficiency, and more. If you enjoy finding patterns amidst chaos, and have experience using analytics to affect revenue, growth, operations or beyond, we're looking for someone like you!
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...
  • 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, R, Python, or other scripting and statistical tools
  • Work with and mentor junior analysts on how to use more advanced methods and solve challenges
  • Produce recommendations and use statistical techniques and hypothesis testing to validate your findings
  • Provide insights to help business and product leaders understand marketplace dynamics, user behaviors, and long-term trends
  • Identify and measure levers to help move essential metrics and make recommendations
  • Work backwards from understanding and sizing problems to ideating solutions
  • Report against our goals by identifying essential metrics and building executive-facing dashboards to track progress
  • Collaborate with engineering to implement, document, validate, and monitor our logging
We're excited about you because you have...
  • 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

Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Gem.

How it works: Gem assists our recruiting team by evaluating job related qualifications and characteristics in connection with hiring. The tool is designed and used to support - rather than replace - human decision-making; trained personnel make final decisions with meaningful human review and oversight, and DoorDash does not use Gem or other AI-enabled tool in a manner that has the effect of subjecting applicants or employees to discrimination based on any protected characteristic or proxy or for engaging in any protected activity under applicable law.

Data Retention, Privacy & Bias Audit: Data collected during this process is retained in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy and applicable state laws. In compliance with New York City Local Law 144, the independent bias audit summary for Gem is publicly available for review at our Careers Page.

Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only

We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024.

The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey

Compensation

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee's work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:
  • For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
  • For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

I4

$124,100-$182,500 USD

I5

$152,000-$223,500 USD

I6

$184,300-$271,000 USD

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at DoorDash

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist jobs: