Director, Data Science at Gopuff
$215,000–$275,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
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Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A director-level role leading data science across three domains — consumer experience (search, recommendations, and personalization), delivery operations (ETA prediction, routing, and demand forecasting), and an advertising platform (ad ranking, attribution, and bid optimization). The position involves both hands-on coding and team leadership, setting the ML roadmap and working directly with product, engineering, and executive stakeholders. Suited to a senior ML practitioner with prior experience managing data science teams in e-commerce or marketplace environments.
Senior level · 8+ years · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20 people in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 4–25
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $177,285 (middle half $140,146–$221,700). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This role is classified as a people-management position (11-3021) because it explicitly involves owning a team of Data Scientists and ML Engineers, setting org-wide ML strategy, and reporting to C-suite — but the JD also emphasizes being a 'hands-on coder' who writes code alongside the team, making 15-2051 a genuine runner-up.
Gopuff is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA; no specific city is stated in the posting, so the Philadelphia CBSA is used as the best available location. The role may be remote or hybrid — the posting does not explicitly state remote eligibility, so remote is set to false.
The advertised title is 'Director of Data Science,' which maps to Principal in the advertised seniority framing. However, the actual scope (managing one team, 8+ years required, fast-paced tech environment) is consistent with a Senior-level people manager rather than a true org-wide Principal authority.
The 3+ years of team management experience is a role-level requirement and is captured in the overall years minimum (8+ years overall); the management tenure is not emitted as a separate skill since it names no technology.
Skills such as 'semantic search,' 'intent modeling,' 'dynamic dispatch,' 'driver routing,' 'bid optimization,' 'budget pacing,' and 'audience targeting' are described as responsibilities/domain areas rather than named technologies or tools, so they are omitted per extraction rules.
Databricks and Snowflake are explicitly called out as 'a plus' under the Preferred section.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): causal/uplift modeling, relevance modeling, multi-objective optimization.
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