Senior Data Scientist, CookUnity
Growth Forecasting & Discounts Optimization
$160-180k
1 day a week in office
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
Open for applications
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$160-180k
1 day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for a Data Scientist with expertise and experience in forecasting and optimisation to help us optimize our investment in acquiring and reactivating eaters!
- An advanced degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or similar domain
- 6+ years of experience in marketing data analytics
- 3+ years experience with multi-touch attribution
- Experience working with media mix modeling, marketing measurement and attribution, targeting and creative optimization, online purchase funnel optimization, user segmentation, cohort analyses, time series analyses, regression models, etc
- The determination to initiate and lead projects
- High autonomy in partnering with non technical stakeholders
- High autonomy in executing to produce insights with data (e.g. SQL, Tableau, Python, dbt)
- High agency and growth mindset
- The ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines is a must
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll contribute directly to revenue growth by applying ML & time series forecasting to produce our bottom up subscriber growth forecasts, covering new and resurrected subscribers, growth marketing and discounts
- What you’ll do in 12 months
- Develop and own the growth forecasting models: Develop predictive models for yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily forecasts across media channels (e.g., paid search, social, TV). Combine error analysis with in-depth insights about customer demand to develop and fine-tune forecasts. Success will be measured by forecast accuracy and ability to support company budgeting and scenario planning
- Develop and own a discount optimisation model: Create and manage discount optimization models by category and channel, applying the model to recommend discount optimisation strategies. Analyze model effectiveness against actual outcomes, identify gaps, and recommend adjustments. Success will be measured by improved discount ROI and alignment with overall growth and financial objectives
- Deliver spend insights in support of budgeting and spend optimisation: Analyze channel performance, mta inputs conduct incrementality tests, and develop regression models and baselines for spend optimization
- Deep dive into trials, acquisition history, conversion rates, discounts and offers, and marketing strategies to deliver the insights the growth team needs to improve budget efficiency and alignment budgets with CookUnity’s annual goals. Success will be measured through improvements in incremental revenue and CAC
Our take
CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.
The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.
While there’s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as it’s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.
With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.
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30% employee growth in 12 months
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Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2023
$47m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$47m
SERIES B
Total funding: $119.3m
Company benefits
- 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
- 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
- 🐣 Family leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
- 🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
- 🥙 A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly
- 🧘🏽♀️ Wellness perks: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
- 👩🏾🏫 Personalized Spanish coach
Company values
- Pursue Excellence: We’re fuelled by a relentless pursuit of excellence
- Make it Simple: We always strive to do more with less
- Harmony: We believe that greatness comes from goodness
- Encourage Growth: We embrace a growth mindset and focus on making ourselves better each day
- Celebrate Diversity and Creativity: We honor the individuality of associates, chefs and the people we serve
- Make an Impact: We want to design experiences that make people happy, healthy and well
- Build Unity: Because we're all connected and we’re strongest when united
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
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Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(CEO)Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.
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