Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist

DoorDash USA · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; Washington D.C.

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $124,100 – $182,500
  • Posted 2024-07-10
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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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.

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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

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