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
Are able to work in our office in São Paulo, Brazil
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About 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 Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
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