Data Scientist​/Senior Data Scientist

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 Door Dash work to uncover insights and turn them into relevant recommendations, driving decisions for the entire organization. Analytics is integral to all operational areas at Door Dash.

• Consumer & Growth
• Business Operations
• Dasher & Logistics
• Customer Experience & Integrity
• Merchant, Ads & Sales
• New Verticals
• International Data Science

As a Data Scientist at Door Dash, 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.

• 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.

• A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain.
• 2+ years of experience in data analytics, consulting, or a related role.
• Experience working with funnel optimization, user segmentation, cohort analyses, time series analyses, regression models, etc.
• Expertise in SQL queries, ETL, A/B Testing, and statistical analysis (e.g., hypothesis testing, experimentation, regressions) with 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.

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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.

• The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
• $124,100–$182,500 USD
• $152,000–$223,500 USD
• $184,300–$271,000 USD

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

Door Dash 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…