Senior Data Scientist - AI Analytics & Strategy

Realtor.com; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, dental, and vision cover

Family forming benefits

13 Paid Holidays

Flexible Time Off

Volunteer Time Off (8 hours)

401(k) with 3.5% match

Tuition Reimbursement

Financial Planning Sessions

Student Debt Retirement Savings Match

Snacks in offices

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking a senior analytics partner for RDC Next with a focus on Realtor.com Plus, partnering with Product, Engineering, Finance, Industry Marketing, and MLS data teams. You’ll own experimentation, analytics, and reporting that informs product roadmaps and market strategies.

You will build AI‑enabled analytics, mentor analysts, and help scale data platforms while surfacing high‑impact opportunities as the network expands across markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or Analytics professional, with a strong track record of delivering impactful, data‑driven solutions — experience supporting a consumer‑facing digital product is preferred
• Strong proficiency in SQL and in Python or R, along with related data analysis libraries (e.g. Pandas, NumPy, scikit‑learn)
• Hands‑on experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake) and with BI or product analytics tooling (e.g. Tableau, Looker, Amplitude)
• Expertise in data visualization and storytelling to effectively communicate complex findings
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and experimental design
• Demonstrated hands‑on use of AI tools in day‑to‑day analytical work
• Product sense and a strategic mindset that enables one to learn how the business operates, understand consumer and stakeholder pain points, and deliver recommendations that drive measurable value
• Strong communication skills to effectively communicate complex information and strategies to non‑technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and marketing stakeholders across Realtor.com to identify questions where data science adds value, and shape product strategy with the answers.
• Own analytics end to end for consumer product initiatives — define success metrics, instrument, run analysis, and land recommendations with product leadership.
• Apply advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to consumer behavior and clickstream data to surface drivers of engagement, retention, and conversion.
• Design and analyze experiments (A/B and quasi‑experimental), and raise the bar on how impact is measured.
• Build and maintain datasets, metric definitions, pipelines, and dashboards for self‑serve analytics across partner teams.
• Mentor analysts and data scientists, set analytical standards, and ensure code quality.
• Partner with Data/ML Engineering to productionize models and improve data foundations.

Skills

SQL

Python or R

Data visualization

Statistical analysis

Experiment design

AI tooling

Product sense

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics/Economics

Tools

Snowflake

Tableau

Looker

Amplitude

Job description

Realtor.com is seeking a senior analytics partner for RDC Next with a focus on Realtor.com Plus, partnering with Product, Engineering, Finance, Industry Marketing, and MLS data teams. You’ll own experimentation, analytics, and reporting that informs product roadmaps and market strategies.

You will build AI‑enabled analytics, mentor analysts, and help scale data platforms while surfacing high‑impact opportunities as the network expands across markets.