Sr. Data Scientist

| New York City, NY
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About Us

Wonder is a fast-growing food-tech startup that’s raising the bar on the role food plays in peoples’ lives. We’re creating an on-demand dining experience where customers can receive high-quality meals perfectly prepared and served to their doorsteps within minutes. We partner with the best restaurants and chefs across a diverse range of cuisines to offer access to the world’s most delicious food—anytime, anywhere. Meals are prepared in Wonder kitchens and finished by onboard chefs deployed in our customized mobile restaurants.   

Wonder is led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs including some of the most accomplished leaders and operators in the technology, culinary, and logistics industries. Backed by top-tier venture capitalists, we’re moving quickly to pioneer the future of food.  

If you join our team, you’ll work in a supportive and collaborative environment where our culture and our values—Mastery, Compassion, and Courage—are taken as seriously as delivering an incredible experience for our customers. 

About the role

This role will be key to the success of our courier model within the marketplace product, including real-time order assignment, routing, vehicle allocation, shift scheduling, etc. You will lead the development and execution of key algorithms for improving the driver utilization and network efficiency. You are expected to demonstrate your strength in breaking down complex business problems, encapsulating and simplifying each component to analytical problems, and building solutions with generality. You will identify business and growth opportunities and communicate the decision process with leaders. In this role, you will:

  • Develop and iterate on algorithmic solution to optimize business operations, such as hub locations for couriers, type of courier assignment (e.g., auto-assign vs. opt-in), type of courier employment, and real-time order assignment.
  • Partner with business leaders, data scientists, engineers and product managers to incorporate data models and analyses into business processes
  • Use data science to identify opportunities to improve and grow our business
  • Be willing to learn, grow, and build with a startup mindset that can also operate at scale

The experience you have

  • Master's or PhD in quantitative fields, such as Operations Research, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
  • 5+ years of work experience in statistical modeling, data mining, machine learning, or related fields.
  • Familiarity with programming for data analysis and data visualization; ideally Python, SQL, R, JavaScript, Java or C++.
  • Ability to understand business drivers and solve ambiguous and complex problems, with analytical mindset and business judgment.
  • Mental toughness to drive analytical projects from ideation to delivery.
  • You enjoy being scrappy in an agile, high growth startup environment that has newly formed processes and systems.
  • High levels of critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K with matching. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.

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A final note 

At Wonder, we believe that in order to build the best team, we must hire using an objective lens.  We are committed to fair hiring practices where we hire people for their potential and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.  As such, we do not discriminate or make decisions based on your race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.  If you have a disability, please let your recruiter know how we can make your interview process work best for you.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy. 

More Information on Wonder
Wonder operates in the Automotive industry. The company is located in New York, NY, Cranford, NJ, Lawton, MI, Cranford, NJ and Parsippany, NJ. Wonder was founded in 2018. It has 500 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance and Onsite gym. To see all 18 open jobs at Wonder, click here.
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