Senior Staff Data Scientist

Wonder

Senior Staff Data Scientist shaping data science strategy for Wonder's food delivery marketplace. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve marketplace operations and customer experience.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeNew York City • Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $240,000 - $249,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

shape the strategic direction of applied data science
mentor senior and junior scientists
collaborate closely with engineering, product, operations, and business leaders
identify high-leverage opportunities across the business
design statistically rigorous frameworks to understand causal impact
guide business strategy through experimentation, measurement, and principled inference
prototype, experiment, influence architecture, and ensure operationalization of models and insights that move business metrics

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of industry experience with MS or 6+ years with PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field
Proven experience applying data science and machine learning to complex business problems
Deep expertise in causal inference, experimentation, and statistical modeling
Strong intuition for business and product trade-offs
Proficiency in Python, data analysis, visualization, and writing scalable, production-ready code
Demonstrated ability to take data science, ML, or causal inference systems into production
Fluency in SQL or similar tools for directly interrogating production-scale datasets
Experience mentoring and providing technical direction to other scientists, analysts, or engineers

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive salary package including equity and 401K
multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs
many benefits and perks that are not listed

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Hard Skills & Tools

data sciencemachine learningcausal inferencestatistical modelingdata analysisdata visualizationPythonSQLproduction-ready codeexperimentation

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationstrategic directionbusiness intuitiontechnical direction

Certifications

MSPhD