Staff Data Scientist - Marketplace
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CookUnity is the first chef-to-you marketplace connecting the country's most talented chefs with eaters (consumers). We're changing meal delivery by bringing small-batch, restaurant-quality meals to eaters across the country. Every week, a diverse collective of all-star chefs craft their signature, ready-to-eat dishes for an elevated at-home dining experience.
CookUnity is home to more than 100 of NYC, LA, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle and Miami’s most inspired and innovative chefs. Through a weekly subscription, eaters can select from a diverse, ever-changing menu of hundreds of hand-crafted meals. Our chefs create dishes that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences, so the best part of dining out can be enjoyed by everyone.
Delivering more than 1M meals per month and growing 3x YoY, CookUnity is also helping improve the livelihood of working chefs, tripling their income, enabling the growth of their own teams and personal brands. And believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity partners with Food Bank For New York City, the city's major hunger-relief organization, working to end food insecurity across all five boroughs.
The Role
CookUnity is the first-ever chef marketplace, offering a large catalogue of gourmet chef-prepared meals for customers to choose from as part of a weekly subscription.
Reporting to the Head of Data, this role presents a unique and exciting opportunity to lead our data science practice.
A key area of focus will be on our marketplace dynamics and supply: demand liquidity. You will use data to understand our customers, whether it be building eater personas and taste profiles or advancing our search and recommender engine capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Build predictive models for our menu, including our core recommender engine, to personalize our large assortment for the many preferences that we all have as eaters.
- Partner with our supply leadership to create a data-driven framework for optimizing supply and demand elasticities through experimentation and predictive modelling. What chefs and meals should we add next?
- Develop and implement online and offline testing and validation methodologies. What was the incrementality of adding African meals in Austin? What is the optimal rotation of our menu each week?
- Provide thought leadership on data science best practices, trends, and emerging technologies. Leverage LLMs to build a CookUnity ‘waiter’ menu experience or a ‘taste profile’ for each customer.
- Oversee the creation of a modern, best-in-class data science infrastructure, partnering with engineering.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to data scientists, promoting best practices and professional development
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in data science or related fields.
- Proven experience in applying machine learning and statistics to create and expand competitive advantages and company growth. Experience in any of the following is a big plus: Marketplace, Subscription, and Food industry.
- Strong programming (Python / Scala / Java / C++ or equivalent) skills.
- Utilize OSS ML technologies such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, Airflow.
- A strong understanding of various algorithms' real-world advantages and drawbacks and the ability to measure success.
- MS or higher in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Sociology, Natural Sciences, or any equivalent field is helpful.
Benefits
🩺 Health Insurance coverage
⛱ PTO policy and paid sick days.
📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1.
🐣 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.
🌟 Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!
Compensation
All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit, we'll get in touch with you. Thank you for your time!
CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.
