Basketball Data Scientist - Remote, Impactful Analytics

Utah Jazz; Salt Lake City (UT); Remoto; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City is seeking a Data Scientist to build and maintain models that inform basketball decisions. Remote candidates are welcome, with a focus on delivering analytics that impact operations across scouting, coaching, analytics, and sports science.

You will develop predictive models, perform ad hoc analyses, and collaborate with multiple departments to translate data into actionable insights while adhering to coding standards and best practices.

Competenze

• 2+ years of experience analyzing data and training statistical models in a production environment using Python or R.
• 2+ years of experience with basketball data and the latest basketball analytics techniques
• 2+ years of experience with data visualization
• Expertise in statistics fundamentals and state-of-the-art predictive modeling techniques
• A desire to work in a startup-like environment where you will be empowered to make design decisions
• A track record of writing clean and well-documented code
• Bachelor’s in statistics, data science, math or equivalent experience
• Enthusiasm for basketball
• Nice to have experience with MLOps
• Nice to have experience with SQL
• Nice to have experience with data engineering

Mansioni

• Develop and maintain models to better predict basketball outcomes and facilitate better decision-making across Basketball Operations.
• Perform ad hoc data analysis as necessary to help basketball decision-makers.
• Interface with all departments within Basketball Operations (scouting, coaching, analytics, sports science) and strive to understand and meet their needs.
• Identify, research, and implement opportunities for new models, data sources, and basketball analytics techniques.
• Help maintain and test datasets used to perform analysis.
• Maintain best practices for software development including test writing, documentation, and adherence to and improvement of coding standards.
• Protect the reputation of the company.
• Exemplify the Utah Jazz mission and values: transparent, all in, community obsessed, one team, and scrappy.
• Accept other duties, as assigned.

Conoscenze

Data analysis

Statistical modeling

Communication

Startup mindset

Formazione

Bachelor’s in statistics/data science/math

Strumenti

Python

R

SQL

Power BI

Descrizione del lavoro

Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City is seeking a Data Scientist to build and maintain models that inform basketball decisions. Remote candidates are welcome, with a focus on delivering analytics that impact operations across scouting, coaching, analytics, and sports science.

You will develop predictive models, perform ad hoc analyses, and collaborate with multiple departments to translate data into actionable insights while adhering to coding standards and best practices.