Manager, Machine Learning (Sr. Manager/Director)
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At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
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OVERVIEW
Over the last few years, Instacart has expanded to 25 markets and partnered with 600+ retailers across North America.
The machine learning organization works on a wide range of challenging problems in the domain of e-commerce and delivery, many of which require deep optimizations using data driven approaches. We are looking for senior leaders in machine learning to join our fast moving team.
In particular, we are looking for a senior leader with expertise and experience in the following domains: knowledge discovery (e.g., from search logs, catalog data, or the web), graph systems (e.g., taxonomy and ontology), product knowledge graphs and their applications in e-commerce, etc.
ABOUT THE JOB
- You will drive organization-wide initiatives using machine learning and data driven approaches to improve customer satisfaction and Instacart’s business.
- You will innovate in areas including but not limited to search, recommendation, personalization, knowledge base, computer vision, conversation, etc.
- You will recruit and lead a team of machine learning engineers and scientists.
- You will ship high quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed.
- You will work closely with engineers, product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
- You will create external visibility by collaborating with the academia and publishing in top conferences and journals.
ABOUT YOU
- 10+ years of industry experience using data driven approaches to solve real-world problems.
- Demonstrated leadership experience.
- Expertise in data management, knowledge bases, and information retrieval.
- Expertise in machine learning for search optimization, discovery driven recommendations, or advertising optimization.
- Expertise in natural language and/or image processing for e-commerce catalog quality, enrichment and optimization.
- Expertise with deep learning methods and their practical application at scale.
- Extensive experience building scalable machine learning systems and data-driven products working with cross functional teams.
Benefits
- Talented and collaborative coworkers who will both push and support you
- Market competitive salary, equity
- Medical, dental, vision benefits and 401(k) retirement plan
- Take what you need vacation (and we really mean it)
- 16 weeks maternity leave / 8 weeks paternity leave so you can truly bond with your child
- Complimentary Instacart express membership
Accommodations & Accessibility
At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.