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Senior Data Scientist – Strategic Analytics
Zillow
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Colorado
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💰 $145,500 - $232,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AirflowAWSCloudPythonSQL
About the role
- Craft clear, concise written and verbal narratives that distill complex data into actionable insights for audiences ranging from ICs to the C-suite
- Act as a trusted advisor: present findings, explore alternatives collaboratively, and guide stakeholders toward data-driven decisions
- Work with Zillow’s most senior leaders and regularly present in company-wide forums with Zillow’s leadership team
- Scope, estimate, and execute strategic analyses (e.g., cross-business and cross-functional projects ranging from broad company-wide analyses to deep-dives to support individual business initiatives)
- Produce clear design docs, run kick-offs and checkpoints, and coordinate handoffs to line-of-business data partners
- Apply statistical methods, causal inference and measurement, and modeling techniques to identify trends and strengthen storytelling
- Lead exploratory projects to identify customer trends, behavioral patterns, and opportunity segments across Zillow’s products and marketplaces
- Discover and integrate disparate big data sources to build holistic views of customer and agent behavior
- Design and execute segmentation studies that inform product, marketing, and partnership strategies
- Import and codify best practices—establish norms around version control, testing, science methods, and AI use cases
- Use state of the art AI tools such as Cursor, ChatGPT, or Gemini to enhance productivity
- Prototype AI/ML-powered proof-of-concepts that automate routine analyses or surface strategic signals
- Coach and mentor more junior data scientists: conduct code reviews, share frameworks and best practices, and elevate team standards for reproducibility and documentation
Requirements
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with an emphasis on data-supported storytelling
- Able to work across silos and influence business partners
- Ability to use strategic thinking to identify emerging problems and prioritize among workstreams
- Desire to work on a team influencing others to advance Zillow’s strategy
- Experience delivering value amid ambiguity
- Proven track record of owning technically complex data projects end-to-end
- Expertise in exploratory and deep-dive analysis
- Strong understanding of statistical concepts, metric design and measurement, and inference techniques
- Experience across one or more science domains such as predictive analytics and modeling, experimental design and causal inference, machine learning, optimization, data engineering and visualization
- Strong proficiency in SQL, Python/R
- Experience with visualization tools / packages and working with big data in a cloud environment (AWS, Databricks, etc.)
- Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g. Cursor, ChatGPT, Genie, Gemini)
- Demonstrated ability to create compelling data visualizations
- An undergraduate or Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g. mathematics, engineering, statistics, finance, or similar)
- 5+ years of work experience as a data scientist, working on problems involving quantitative data analysis, experimentation and data problem-solving, preferably in a consumer-facing product
- Preferred: Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or related field
- Preferred: Prior work on cross-functional or centralized data teams with diverse stakeholder sets
- Preferred: Experience with modern data orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt) and cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks)
- Preferred: Prior experience in real-estate analytics
- Preferred: Experience with data visualization tools or dashboarding tools
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