Staff Data Scientist, CookUnity
Growth
$165-185k
+ Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1 and eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
1 day a week in office
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
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Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$165-185k
+ Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1 and eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
1 day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.
Role
Who you are
- Autonomous Collaboration: Partner effectively with non-technical stakeholders
- Data Expertise: Proficient in SQL, Tableau, Python/R, dbt/Airflow for independent insights generation and machine learning model development
- Proactive & Growth-Oriented: Demonstrates initiative, a continuous learning mindset, and a passion for driving growth
- 5-10 years in similar data scientist and/or analyst roles, with a pattern of high achievement
- At least 2 years in a growth team (in any capacity)
What the job involves
- Data Scientists are the people who bring excellence from empirical and computer science to life to drive the iterative product development lifecycle
- They embed within teams they support, achieving a marriage of minds with their stakeholders and an integration of objectives and workflows of
- They work across the team with UX researchers, feature engineers, domain experts and business, product, and marketing managers, to create data about user behaviors, discover unmet needs, set metrics that measure performance and design & execute experiments to generate learnings and evidence their success (or lack thereof)
- Where needed, they leverage machine learning methods as the basis of even deeper insights, uncovering patterns in user behavior that the human mind simply cannot process (e.g Through unsupervised learning)
- We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Staff Data Scientist to drive growth across the entire customer lifecycle
- You will bridge the gap between data and business teams, providing insights to fuel acquisition, optimize activation, and drive resurrection strategies
- You'll collaborate closely with product and marketing, utilizing your expertise in data analysis, experimentation, and machine learning to unlock growth opportunities
- What you’ll do in 12 months
- Acquisition Funnel Mastery: Be the third party arbiter of funnel performance facts and gaps in acquisition performance. Decompose funnel touch points and define metric frameworks to measure performance of the funnel. Develop interactive visualizations that enable self-service insights, so the growth teams always know how the funnel and their strategies are performing. Success will be measured in the depth of understanding, and minutes it takes, for the team to learn what initiatives are moving the success metrics of the funnel and its drivers
- Optimize eater acquisition journey’s for every type of eater from every acquisition channel: Produce insights, make recommendations and run experiments as needed to optimize the acquisition journey for different segments of customers, from different channels. Leverage pLTV modeling to make recommendations for how to adapt the acquisition journey to make controlled improvements to LTV. Success will be measured through regular and sustained improvements to conversion rates from landing to trials
- Drive data creation to maximize observability of the eater acquisition funnel: Lead efforts to maximize data observability across the acquisition journey through event tracking and instrumentation. Collaborate with engineers and channel managers to ensure data quality and interoperability from off-platform content to on-platform order conversion. Success will be measured by the complete observability of all events across the funnel and ownership of the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the data by the funnel engineers
- Accelerate learning about what drives orders and retention and what doesn’t. Produce insights about engagement of active subscribers and recommend effective strategies to increase retention and order rates across the customer lifecycle stages. Collaborate with the CRM team to design and evaluate new tests and customer journeys. Success will be measured by the learning rate of the team (e.g. number of tested new strategies per month) and improvements to order rate and retention
- Accelerate learnings about how to resurrect churned subscribers. Deconstruct resurrection funnel touch points and communications and deliver insights that power our scaling resurrection programme into paid channels. Build incrementality models, and design & analyze resurrection experiments across landing pages and CRM channels as needed to optimize re-activation journeys. Use interactive visualizations and produce engaging insight presentations to build understanding of your insights and support for your recommendations. Success will be measured through revenue through resurrected eaters and the resurrection CAC for paid channels
Our take
CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.
The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.
While there’s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as it’s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.
With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.
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Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2023
$47m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$47m
SERIES B
Total funding: $119.3m
Company benefits
- 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
- 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
- 🐣 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
Company values
- Pursue Excellence: We’re fuelled by a relentless pursuit of excellence
- Make it Simple: We always strive to do more with less
- Harmony: We believe that greatness comes from goodness
- Encourage Growth: We embrace a growth mindset and focus on making ourselves better each day
- Celebrate Diversity and Creativity: We honor the individuality of associates, chefs and the people we serve
- Make an Impact: We want to design experiences that make people happy, healthy and well
- Build Unity: Because we're all connected and we’re strongest when united
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
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Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(CEO)Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.
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