Director, Player Projections & Baseball Data Analytics

Washington Nationals; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D

Disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

401(k) and pension plan

Complimentary tickets to NationalsHome

Employee discounts

Free onsite fitness center

Job summary

Washington Nationals are seeking a Director of Player Projections to lead the department responsible for building predictive models of player performance and informing acquisition, development, and deployment strategies.

The Director will manage Analysts, oversee data pipelines, and apply advanced statistics and machine learning to forecasts that drive on-field decisions and talent roadmap.

Qualifications

• Experience in statistical modeling, forecasting, and probabilistic programming.
• Experience with machine learning methods and model evaluation, deployment, and orchestration.
• Strong programming practices in Python and R and AI agent integration.

Responsibilities

• Oversee analysts building data pipelines and conducting advantage-seeking research.
• Develop forecasts using statistics and probability to impact on-field decisions.

Skills

Decision making under uncertainty

Statistical modeling

Forecasting

Machine learning

Python

R

Probabilistic programming

Tools

PyMC

Stan

Python

R

Job description

Washington Nationals are seeking a Director of Player Projections to lead the department responsible for building predictive models of player performance and informing acquisition, development, and deployment strategies.

The Director will manage Analysts, oversee data pipelines, and apply advanced statistics and machine learning to forecasts that drive on-field decisions and talent roadmap.