CookUnity
Director, Data Science/ML
United States (Remote) · Director
Sponsorship not specified$225k-$240kDetected 29 days ago
PythonSQLSnowflakeAWSGCPMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnAirflowData ScienceData VisualizationLLMsMLOpsStatisticsA/B TestingProduct StrategyLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This is a high-impact role for someone who thinks strategically about the future of product science while remaining hands-on in driving technical execution.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with Product, Growth, Engineering, and UX leadership to influence product roadmap with data-driven insights and forward-looking ML capabilities
- Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle for product use cases: problem framing, feature development, model training, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Partner with the Growth Data Science & Analytics team to align experimentation, measurement, and modeling efforts into a cohesive end-to-end data science ecosystem.
- Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing product data science team capable of delivering both strategic insights and production ML systems
- Create career development pathways that attract and retain top data science talent
- Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to ensure seamless model deployment and monitoring
- Own and evolve personalization and recommendation systems that drive engagement and conversion across the customer journey
Requirements
- PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field
- Experience with real-time ML systems and feature stores
- Familiarity with generative AI and LLM applications in product contexts
- Knowledge of modern product analytics tools (Amplitude, MixPanel, Looker)
- 10+ years of experience in data science, with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing data scientists or ML engineers
- Deep expertise in experimentation and causal inference, including A/B testing, incrementality measurement, and statistical rigor
- Strong product sense and business acumen -ability to identify high-impact opportunities and translate them into data science initiatives
- Experience in consumer tech, e-commerce, or marketplace businesses where personalization and user engagement are critical
- Excellent communication skills -ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and influence product strategy
- Hands-on technical proficiency in Python, SQL, and modern ML frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Proven track record building and deploying ML models in production, particularly in personalization, recommendation systems, or predictive modeling
Nice to have
- Preferred requirements:
Skills
- Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning within the data science organization
- Ensure models are observable, explainable where needed, and continuously improved post-launch
- Define product success metrics and measurement frameworks that align with business objectives
- Conduct deep-dive analyses on user behavior patterns to uncover opportunities for product optimization
Compensation
- 🌟 Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
Benefits
- 🩺 Health Insurance coverage
- 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
- 🌟 Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
- ⛱ Unlimited PTO
- You'll own the strategic vision for how data science shapes our product roadmap.
- Strategic Vision & Product Partnership
Company info
- Food has lost its soul to modern convenience.
- And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us.
- So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs.
- Today, CookUnity delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry's best chefs to homes all over the country.
- Ready-to-eat.
- And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.
- Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world.
- If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you've found the right job posting.
Visa & Work Authorization
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