Principal Data Scientist, Gopuff
Delivery Technology
$175-250k
Food, alcohol, and daily essentials delivery service
Open for applications
Food, alcohol, and daily essentials delivery service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$175-250k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver food, drink, supplies, and essentials to customers' doorsteps, safely and quickly.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industrial experiences in data science
- MS or PhD in Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or other quantitative field
- Strong ability in translating ambiguous business problems into well-defined technical objectives and providing concrete data science solutions
- Expert in machine learning, statistics, and experimentation
- Proficient in Python, SQL, and source control management tools
- Excellent communication and presentation skills (to both technical and business audiences)
- Effective, resilient, resourceful, and kind
- Experience in delivery tech
- Experience in dispatch optimization
What the job involves
- As a Principal Data Scientist at Gopuff working on the Delivery Technology Team, you will lead the vision and delivery of data driven models to optimize the delivery experience for consumers and delivery partners on our platform across dispatch optimization, delivery routing/ETAs, driver pricing/incentives, as well as the delivery partner experience.
- All of that, with a direct impact on the delivery experience that is so core to serving our customers’ immediate needs, means you’ll have the opportunity to make a huge impact on the future success of Gopuff
- Collaborate with our business, product, and engineering partners across the organization to vision and deliver data science solutions for practical business problems
- Deeply understand our users, our products, and our data to identify opportunities for creating machine learning, optimization and causal inference solutions to deliver a better customer experience and make our business more efficient
- Build data driven, robust and replicable data science models
- Use experimentation and causal inference to measure the impact of our models on user engagement and business metrics
- Serve as a tech lead on the Delivery Technology DS team
- Provide mentorship to junior data scientists on the team
Our take
Gopuff was an early player in the last-mile delivery space, offering consumers access to a wide range of consumer goods (including food and alcohol) with delivery in ~30 minutes through its network of micro fulfillment centers, from which a fleet of drivers pick up and drop off orders.
Gopuff currently operates in over 1,000 cities and is adding more. The company has made several strategic acquisitions to charge its growth – including UKs Fancy and Dija, and US BevMo!. However, the company faces increased competition on all sides, from Getir (who recently acquired Gorillas), Glovo, and Zapp, as well as high operating costs.
The company has added a range of new capabilities to its platform, launching features to eliminate former pain points by including advance order scheduling, gifting, and in-store pickup. After abandoning plans to IPO in mid-2022, it is focusing back on profitability, though the company has faced some scrutiny over its methods and has had to search further afield for funding at a time when venture capital is scarce. Regardless, Gopuff is well set to remain a major player in the market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Dec 2021
$1.5bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2021
$1bn
SERIES H
Total funding: $5.0bn
Company benefits
- Gopuff employee discount
- Career growth opportunities
- Internal rewards programs
- Annual performance appraisal and bonus
- Equity program
Company HQ
Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Leadership
Yakir Gola
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Founded GoPuff whilst studying at Drexel University.
Rafael Ilishayev
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Rafael studied at Drexel University with Yakir, where they co-founded Gopuff together in October 2013, and have been co-CEOs since.
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