Data Scientist

The Athletic; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Parental Leave

401 (k)

Short & Long Term Disability

Free Subscription

Competitive Health Care

HSA & FSA

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

The Athletic is looking for a data scientist who will bring a deep understanding of our sportswriting and in-game experience to improve our product for subscribers. You will work with data, product, growth, and engineering to develop advanced machine learning models that understand the business and optimize workflows.

Design and implement models to predict subscriber conversion, recommend articles to users at the right time, and productionize data science pipelines.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience as a data scientist or data analyst.
• Strong Python knowledge to train models and productionize them.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and data warehouses.
• Understanding of statistics for predictive modeling.
• Ability to explain concepts and tell stories with data; cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and implement mathematical models to drive long-term product goals.
• Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling.
• Use quantitative analysis to understand user behavior and develop recommendations.
• Design and develop data science pipelines in production.
• Guide complex experiments.
• Cultivate an outstanding data science environment.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Machine Learning

Data Analysis

Communication

Job description

• We are looking for a data scientist who will bring a deep understanding of our sportswriting, our in-game experience, and the way our subscribers use The Athletic to help us make our best-in-class product even better
• In this role, you will work closely with our data, product, growth, and engineering teams to develop advanced machine learning models
• These models will help us understand our business, optimize and automate our workflows, and have our product make smarter recommendations
• As a member of our data science team, your work will have a significant impact at The Athletic
• 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

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401 (k)
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Free Subscription
• Competitive Health Care
• HSA & FSA
• Commuter Benefits

An understanding of subscription media and recommendation engines, with the ability to turn it into insights and optimizationsCan explain sophisticated concepts to diverse audiences and craft compelling stories with data2-4 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 dataA strong working knowledge of Python and how to use it to train machine learning models and put them into productionKnowledge of statistical principles and how they apply to predictive modelingStrong verbal and written communication skills with ability to build cross-functional relationshipsA solid understanding of SQL with an ability to efficiently pull and write to our data warehouses