Senior Data Scientist, Growth & Retention
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About CookUnity:
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 industrys best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. 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 youve found the right job posting.
About the Role
Were hiring for an experienced ML-focused Data Scientist to own growth-oriented modeling across the customer lifecycle - acquisition activation retention resurrection and monetization. Youll work alongside other data scientist to design validate and productionize statistical and ML systems (pLTV churn/survival uplift/incrementality lookalikes clustering/embeddings NBA/ranking) that directly drive growth. This is a hands-on role for someone with strong mathematical/statistical foundations broad modeling experience and pragmatic MLOps chops who can lead experiments and partner closely with Marketing Engineering CRM and Product.
What youll do
- Lifecycle modeling: Build and maintain predictive LTV churn (including survival/time-to-event) order-rate and resurrection models that feed acquisition CRM and retention strategies.
- Acquisition & lookalikes: Create lookalike / propensity models for paid channels and audience construction; optimize CAC vs LTV tradeoffs.
- Next-Best-Action & personalization: Develop NBA/ranking models small-scale recommenders and embedding-based similarity systems to increase activation and orders.
- Unsupervised & representation learning: Lead segmentation clustering embeddings and representation work that create actionable cohorts and features.
- Production & MLOps: Own the full model lifecycle - training pipelines CI/CD model registries containerized deployment monitoring retraining and drift detection; partner with engineers to operationalize models into CRM marketplace and paid channels.
- Model governance & reproducibility: Ensure models are well-tested explainable calibrated and auditable; document assumptions limitations and business mappings.
- Cross-functional influence: Translate technical work into product recommendations dashboards and clear narratives for Growth Marketing and Engineering. Mentor peers and raise modeling and MLOps standards.
Required qualifications
- 5-8 years in data science applied ML or statistics with a track record of shipping production models.
- Strong math & statistics: probability inference regression survival analysis/time-to-event causal reasoning and familiarity with statistical modeling tradeoffs.
- End-to-end ML experience: experience building validating and deploying classification/regression/ensemble/deep models; comfort with embeddings and representation learning.
- MLOps & production skills: pragmatic experience with model CI/CD model registries (MLFlow or similar) containerization (Docker) orchestration (Airflow) and runtime infra (K8s / ECS).
- Software engineering & tooling: Python (pandas scikit-learn XGBoost/LightGBM PyTorch/TensorFlow optional) strong code hygiene testing and reproducibility.
- Product & stakeholder collaboration: excellent communication ability to embed with Growth/CRM/Marketing and translate models into product decisions.
- Education: BS in a quantitative field required; MS/PhD in statistics math CS economics or similar preferred.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in subscription marketplaces food-tech or consumer marketplaces.
- Familiarity with feature stores Snowflake/BigQuery and production monitoring tools.
- Experience with causal libraries (EconML) uplift frameworks or survival modeling packages.
- Prior work on small-scale recommender systems embeddings or NLP personalization.
Learn More About CookUnity
We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision values and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what were looking for we invite you to explore:CookUnitys Leadership Principles The values and behaviors that guide how we operate collaborate and scale.
We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and product vision. If this excites you wed love to connect!
Benefits
Health Insurance coverage
401k Plan
Unlimited PTO
5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
Paid Family leave
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 youre interested in this role please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit well 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.
A quick note for all candidates
Weve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams across the industry and we want to make sure you (and your data)stay safe while applying to CookUnity.We also want you to know that we take this seriously sometimes as part of our process we may ask for a briefproof of humanity to confirm that were connecting with a real person not an impersonator. Here are a few tips to help you protect yourself and know what to expect from us:
- Apply only through our official channels. All open roles are listed on our official careers page:
- Our recruiters are real people and easy to verify. You can always find them on LinkedIn with verified profiles. If youre unsure feel free to reach out to us on our officialLinkedIn Company Page.
- We only communicate through official CookUnity channels. That means emails ending in
@and interviews held through official company platforms (Google Meet or Zoom) never WhatsApp Telegram or SMS. - Well never ask for payment or personal financial details. If anyone does please dont share any information and let us know right away.
If something ever feels off or youre unsure about a message wed much rather you double-check with us. You can always contact us directly through any of our social media channels. We appreciate your interest in joining CookUnity and we care about keeping your experience (and safety) as genuine as possible.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Protein Purification
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Flow Cytometry
About Company
CookUnity offers flexible and convenient subscription plans that match your needs and taste. Find out more and start eating healthy every day, today.
