The Athletic

Data Scientist

The Athletic

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $125,000 - $135,000 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Design, build, and implement mathematical models to drive key long-term product goals, like training a model that predicts which of our free users are most likely to subscribe, or recommending the right articles to the right users at the right time.
  • Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, drawing from multiple analytical methods to choose the right tool and right level of complexity appropriate for the job.
  • Use quantitative analysis to deeply understand what our users are saying, and to develop recommendations based on that analysis.
  • Design and develop data science pipelines in production.
  • Guide complex experiments.
  • Cultivate an outstanding data science environment.

Requirements

  • 2-4 years of experience as a data scientist or data analyst with a proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web scale data.
  • Strong working knowledge of a scripting language like R or Python and how to use it to train machine learning models and put them into production.
  • A solid understanding of SQL with an ability to efficiently pull and write to our data warehouses.
  • An understanding of subscription media and recommendation engines, with the ability to turn it into insights and optimizations.
  • Knowledge of statistical principles and how they apply to predictive modeling.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to build cross-functional relationships.
  • Can explain sophisticated concepts to diverse audiences and craft compelling stories with data.
Benefits
  • Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
  • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
  • 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
  • Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
  • Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencemachine learningpredictive modelingquantitative analysisdata science pipelinesRPythonSQLstatistical principlesdata analysis
Soft Skills
communication skillscross-functional relationshipsstorytelling with dataproblem-solvingleadershipcollaborationanalytical thinkingproject managementcreativityadaptability