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Lead Data Scientist - Marketing

Chewy
Minneapolis, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 4/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/29/2025

Job Details

Our Opportunity:

Do you want to build a model that impacts the company's bottom line? Do you want to see how your ideas, pipelines, architecture, and experiments affect top-level decision-makers? If so, the Chewy Marketing & Science team is hiring! The team uses AI, machine learning, statistics, and business econometrics techniques to understand and serve the needs of our pet parents. As part of the Marketing Science teams, you will have ample opportunities to solve numerous business problems for marketing and existing Chewy customers. Our team has single-threaded ownership to make data science and AI products powered by ML models, Generative AI, econometric models, causal inference, forecasting, and non-linear optimization. We are hiring a Staff Data Scientist in Bellevue, WA, Boston, MA, Minneapolis, MN or Plantation, FL. In this position, you will work on all stages of model development, from idea, analysis, architecture, pipeline, tuning, experimentation, and feedback loop. This team's MLEs and data scientists focus on learning and working together to deploy the model to production and advance our modeling technique. Join our high-achieving team!

What You'll Do:
  • You will partner with peer MLEs, Program Managers, Marketers, Finance, and top engineers at Chewy.
  • You will be responsible for science projects from idea to offline evaluation to deployment, to experiment, to feedback, to model improvements for not only your science projects.
  • Formalizing assumptions about how models are expected to behave, creating definitions of outliers, developing methods to identify them systematically, and explaining why they are reasonable or identifying fixes.
  • Developing generative AI solutions for various marketing applications.
  • Communicating verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our research, and sharing insights and recommendations.
  • Work with a team of incredible people passionate about data science, machine learning, AI, search & personalization.

What You'll Need:
  • An advanced degree (M.S., PhD, or equivalent experience) in Data Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research, or a related field or 5 years' experience designing optimization and machine learning solutions for large-scale applications.
  • Ability to understand and apply advanced mathematics and DS methodologies.
  • Experience in building distributed pipelines, tuning, optimizing, and evaluating.
  • Experience with standard ML and statistical techniques including Predictive Models (Time Series, Regression, etc.), Classification, Forecasting etc.
  • Experience with modern LLM frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) and LLM architectures and techniques (e.g., RAG, agents, text-to-SQL)
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML frameworks
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and transform open-ended problems into structured solutions
  • Excellence in communicating technical concepts to non-technical partners

Bonus (if applicable):
  • Experience with causal inference. If not, we'll teach you.
  • Experience with at least one cloud services provider(AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, etc.).
  • Experience with ML framework, e.g., Databricks

The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate's relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant.

We offer different types of insurance, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Salaried-exempt team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Pay Range

$139,000-$259,000 USD

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact

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