Senior Data Scientist, Food & Chef Portfolio

About the Role

CookUnity is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Food & Chef Portfolio team. This role is pivotal in advancing our capabilities by applying scientific rigor to inform, strategize, and optimize our high-performing menu. You will work closely with food leadership to generate insights from our rich dataset, including customer preferences, order behavior, and engagement data, to inform our portfolio strategies and assortment roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• Insight Generation: Collaborate with food leadership to build our food supply around the needs of our current and future eaters. Develop metric and conceptual frameworks to guide food supply decisions and answer critical questions about menu items and cuisine coverage.

• Scientific Food Innovation: Establish a data-led framework to optimize chef additions, menu updates, and cuisine variety. Use machine learning models and experiments to predict success and opportunity-size innovations.

• Experimentation: Build an experimentation-led capability to accelerate food innovation. Implement testing methodologies to validate new product lines, menu rotations, and market impacts.

• Collaboration: Work with UX researchers, feature engineers, domain experts, and business, product, and marketing managers to create data about user behaviors, discover unmet needs, and set performance metrics.

Core Competencies

• High autonomy in partnering with non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in executing insights with data tools such as SQL, Tableau, Python, and dbt.
• Strong agency and growth mindset.

Experience

• 7-10 years in similar analyst roles with a pattern of high achievement.
• 2 years in a food innovation or food marketplace team.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical coverage.
• 401(k) Plan: Secure your future with our retirement plan.
• Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to recharge.
• 5-year Sabbatical: Enjoy a 4-week paid sabbatical after 5 years.
• 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.
• CookUnity Credits: Enjoy our meals with monthly credits.
• Wellness Perks: Access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies.
• Spanish Coach: Personalized coaching to learn Spanish.

Join us at CookUnity and be part of a company that is changing how we eat and how chefs work. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment free from discrimination or harassment.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $160,000 to $175,000 USD per year. Final pay rates will be determined by the candidate's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and market data alignment.

If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application. We look forward to potentially working with you!