CookUnity · 1 month ago
Senior Data Scientist, Growth & Retention
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $185K/yr
5+ years expCookUnity is a pioneering platform that connects consumers with chefs, delivering millions of meals annually. They are looking for an experienced ML-focused Data Scientist to drive growth-oriented modeling across the customer lifecycle, collaborating with various teams to develop and operationalize statistical and ML systems.
Consumer ApplicationsFood and BeverageFood DeliveryOrganic FoodSubscription Service
Responsibilities
Lifecycle modeling: Build and maintain predictive LTV, churn (including survival/time-to-event), order-rate, and resurrection models that feed acquisition, CRM, and retention strategies
Acquisition & lookalikes: Create lookalike / propensity models for paid channels and audience construction; optimize CAC vs LTV tradeoffs
Next-Best-Action & personalization: Develop NBA/ranking models, small-scale recommenders and embedding-based similarity systems to increase activation and orders
Unsupervised & representation learning: Lead segmentation, clustering, embeddings and representation work that create actionable cohorts and features
Production & MLOps: Own the full model lifecycle - training pipelines, CI/CD, model registries, containerized deployment, monitoring, retraining and drift detection; partner with engineers to operationalize models into CRM, marketplace and paid channels
Model governance & reproducibility: Ensure models are well-tested, explainable, calibrated, and auditable; document assumptions, limitations and business mappings
Cross-functional influence: Translate technical work into product recommendations, dashboards and clear narratives for Growth, Marketing and Engineering. Mentor peers and raise modeling and MLOps standards
Qualification
Required
5-8+ years in data science, applied ML or statistics, with a track record of shipping production models
Strong math & statistics: probability, inference, regression, survival analysis/time-to-event, causal reasoning, and familiarity with statistical modeling tradeoffs
End-to-end ML experience: experience building, validating and deploying classification/regression/ensemble/deep models; comfort with embeddings and representation learning
MLOps & production skills: pragmatic experience with model CI/CD, model registries (MLFlow or similar), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Airflow), and runtime infra (K8s / ECS)
Software engineering & tooling: Python (pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, PyTorch/TensorFlow optional), strong code hygiene, testing and reproducibility
Product & stakeholder collaboration: excellent communication, ability to embed with Growth/CRM/Marketing and translate models into product decisions
Education: BS in a quantitative field required; MS/PhD in statistics, math, CS, economics or similar preferred
Preferred
Experience in subscription marketplaces, food-tech, or consumer marketplaces
Familiarity with feature stores, Snowflake/BigQuery, and production monitoring tools
Experience with causal libraries (EconML), uplift frameworks, or survival modeling packages
Prior work on small-scale recommender systems, embeddings, or NLP personalization
Benefits
Health Insurance coverage
401k Plan
Unlimited PTO
5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
Paid Family leave
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
CookUnity
CookUnity is a meal subscription and delivery platform that connects private chefs with consumers.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$371.95MKey Investors
General CatalystInsight PartnersFuel Venture Capital
2025-11-19Debt Financing· $250M
2023-04-27Series Unknown· $47M
2022-12-08Series Unknown· $4.54M
Leadership Team
Mateo Marietti
CEO & co founder
Recent News
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