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Senior Data Scientist, Retention & Product

New YorkFull-time$160k2026-06-23 → 2026-11-10

Core

ML-focused Data Scientist owning retention and churn for a subscription food marketplace, predicting at-risk customers and powering interventions to keep them ordering.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (retention & churn)

Builds

Production churn/survival models, personalized win-back experiences, and offer optimization systems for a subscription food delivery platform.

Domain

Food-tech / Consumer subscription marketplace

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

churn prediction, survival/time-to-event modeling, lifecycle-state modeling, uplift/incrementality measurement, A/B testing, end-to-end MLOps, Python (pandas, scikit-learn, gradient boosting), SQL

Preferred skills

Hidden Markov models, causal inference libraries (EconML), survival-modeling packages, recommender systems/embeddings for personalization

Technologies

Python, pandas, scikit-learn, gradient boosting, SQL, CI/CD, containerization, orchestration

Responsibilities

Build churn/survival models to flag at-risk customers; develop propensity models for win-back campaigns; optimize offers and promos to maximize retained revenue; design experiments to measure incremental impact of interventions; own the full model lifecycle including monitoring and retraining; collaborate with Product, CRM, and Marketing to turn models into decisions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC