Senior Manager, Data Science, Analytics - New Verticals, Retail
DoorDashAbout the role
About the Team
DoorDash is building a multi-category business. In addition to Restaurant, Grocery, and Conveience stores, DoorDash partners with merchants to offer selection across an expanding set of categories, including Beauty, Pet, Sporting Goods, Home Improvement, Electronics, Shoes, and more. We are looking for an Analytics leader to drive our strategy and execution as we accelerate the Retail business.
About the Role
As the Senior Manager, Data Science, Analytics, you’ll be leading a team of data scientists who are working on Retail within the New Verticals team. You will develop strategic insights and work closely with the product, engineering, strategy and operations teams to actively build and measure the impact of new features. You will oversee our metrics and analytics roadmap to inform strategic direction for the Retail business, and identify product opportunities. You will also provide technical leadership, build processes, tools, and frameworks to increase velocity and rigor, and partner with data and product engineers to build robust data foundations.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Lead and develop a team of Data Scientists in investigating complex issues and uncovering key drivers of our business, along with your own contributions as an Individual Contributor
- Influence the Product and Operations roadmap by making actionable recommendations based on data
- Interface frequently with senior leadership to showcase your team’s work and tackle complex business problems
- Drive measurement strategy for the area under scope, defining success metrics and implementing best practices around experiment design and statistical analysis
- Develop a strategic learning roadmap based on data observations, strategic questions, and hypotheses
We're excited about you because you have…
- A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain
- Experience managing a team of data scientists, and a track record of delivering impactful analyses
- 8+ years of experience in Data Science and Product Analytics, primarily in related industries
- 3+ years of experience as a people manager
- Strength in leading through your technical chops, and ability to leverage it appropriate in the business context
- Deep understanding of, and hands-on experience with experimentation
- Experience with data pipelines
- Excellent communication and cross-functional working skills, including the ability to present complex findings to non-technical audiences and influence strategic decisions
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, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act) (for salaried roles: flexible 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), 16 weeks of paid parental leave, a wellness benefit, and a commuter benefit match.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash 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.
The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within the United States.$219,600—$323,000 USDAbout DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dash
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