Data Scientist (Remote)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remoto; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

The Athletic is seeking a data scientist to help advance our in-game experience and subscriber engagement through advanced machine learning models. You will collaborate with data, product, growth, and engineering teams to understand business needs, optimize workflows, and deliver smarter recommendations.

This role is 100% remote for candidates based in the United States or Canada, with opportunities to influence product direction and subscriber insights across the organization.

Qualificações

• 2-4 years of experience applying scientific methods to real-world problems on web-scale data.
• Strong working knowledge of Python to train ML models and productionize them.
• Solid understanding of SQL and data warehouses.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and implement mathematical models to drive long-term product goals.
• Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, selecting appropriate methods.
• Use quantitative analysis to understand user behavior and develop data-driven recommendations.
• Design and develop data science pipelines for production environments.
• Guide complex experiments and foster an outstanding data science culture.
• Collaborate with data, product, growth and engineering teams to impact the product.

Conhecimentos

Python

SQL

Machine learning

Data analysis

Descrição da vaga

About the Role

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.

This role is 100% remote for candidates currently based in the United States or Canada.

Responsibilities

• 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.

• A strong working knowledge of 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.