Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. They are seeking a Director of Data Science to lead the data science team, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and develop data-informed business strategies to enhance the fan experience.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners in operations, finance, marketing, and engineering to understand business imperatives and scope data science projects
- Explore possibilities to solve the business imperatives by identifying data sources, creating data where needed, and applying data science techniques
- Work with VP Data, VP of Analytics, and CFO to create data-informed business strategies and roadmaps
- Translate data needs into data product requirements, evaluate technologies, and identify opportunities to innovate and improve data science capabilities
- Use creative problem-solving skills to analyze data and build statistical / machine learning models to help solve business problems from different perspectives
- Work with data engineering lead to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from both internal and external sources and ensure data quality and timeliness
- Build the data science team and lead in data scientist recruitment process
- Guide and coach data scientists and own the deliverables of data visualization and dashboards to help the organization monitor performance, generate insights, and continuously improve user experience
- Continuously grow the data science team’s skillsets
- Establish playbooks to drive data product development process and consistent outcomes
- Use strong communication skills (written and verbal) to lead the full lifecycle of model development, which spans from business problem discovery, data discovery to model deployment and monitoring
- Evangelize data science across the entire company
- Identify and make the business case for data science based use cases
- Where needed, conduct hands-on wrangling, processing, cleansing, and verifying data from different sources used for analysis
- Analyze data with complex relationships, hierarchical levels, and time series, such as Pandas, PySpark
- Use and recommend a wide range of machine learning algorithms and statistical modeling, including latest LLM developments
- Utilize data visualization and dashboard tools, such as Tableau, PowerBI and Snowflake
- Up to 10% domestic travel required for meetings/clients visits
- 100% remote; must reside in U.S.; reports to HQ in New York, NY
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree or U.S. equivalent in Quantitative Methods, Statistics, Econometrics, or related field
- 5 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist, Operations Research Analyst, or any occupation, job title, or position leading a data science team in a technology organization
- 5 years of professional experience implementing data science solutions by identifying relevant data sources, creating data pipelines, and applying advanced data science techniques to support business decision-making
- 5 years of professional experience designing and developing machine learning models and statistical algorithms to analyze structured and unstructured data from both internal and external sources
- 5 years of professional experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather business requirements, define technical scopes, and deliver actionable data insights
- 5 years of professional experience utilizing tools and libraries including Python, SQL, Spark, PyTorch, Pandas, and PySpark to perform data wrangling, cleansing, and advanced analytics
- 5 years of professional experience developing and maintaining data visualization dashboards using tools including Tableau to monitor performance and communicate insights to stakeholders
- 5 years of professional experience establishing scalable data product development processes through consistent use of playbooks, code standards, and reproducible pipelines
- 5 years of professional experience leading the full lifecycle of machine learning models from business problem discovery to model deployment and performance monitoring
- 5 years of professional experience evangelizing data science practices across organizations, including coaching team members, supporting recruitment efforts, and promoting a data driven culture
Benefits
- Up to 10% domestic travel required for meetings/clients visits
- 100% remote; must reside in U.S.
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