Remote Data Scientist - Personalization & Insights Lead

The Athletic; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Athletic is seeking a data scientist to apply machine learning to subscription and content recommendations. Join a remote team collaborating with data, product, growth, and engineering to build models and production pipelines.

You will design models to predict subscriber conversion, optimize recommendations, and guide experiments, with an emphasis on clear storytelling with data. 100% remote opportunity for US/Canada.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of data science or data analytics experience on web-scale data.
• Proficient Python for training models and production deployment.
• Strong SQL skills for data extraction and warehousing.
• Understanding of subscription media and recommendation engines.
• Solid grasp of statistical principles for predictive modeling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement mathematical models to drive key long-term product goals.
• Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling.
• Use quantitative analysis to understand user behavior and provide data-driven recommendations.
• Design and develop data science pipelines in production.
• Guide complex experiments and foster a strong data science culture.
• Collaborate with data, product, growth, and engineering teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

Data Analysis

Communication

Job description

The Athletic is seeking a data scientist to apply machine learning to subscription and content recommendations. Join a remote team collaborating with data, product, growth, and engineering to build models and production pipelines.

You will design models to predict subscriber conversion, optimize recommendations, and guide experiments, with an emphasis on clear storytelling with data. 100% remote opportunity for US/Canada.