Senior Data Scientist: ML & Data Strategy Lead

Fanatics Inc; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Inc. in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Data Engineering, Science, and Analytics team.

You will apply data science to solve business problems using diverse data sources, statistical models, and machine learning algorithms, delivering actionable insights for business actions. You will collaborate with operations, finance, marketing, and engineering, wrangle data, build data-informed roadmaps, and deploy data products, including visualization dashboards and data

Qualifications

• Master’s or Doctoral degree in Computer Science (with a focus on Data Mining, Machine Learning), Statistics, Econometrics, Physics, or other rigorous quantitative disciplines.
• 4+ years of professional experience as a data scientist.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, Spark, the associated Python and Spark packages commonly used by data scientists, and Deep Learning libraries, such as PyTorch.
• Proficient in data wrangling and exploratory analysis, with the ability to extract meaningful insights from complex datasets and establish robust data foundations for downstream modeling efforts.
• Strong understanding of and practical experience in a wide range of machine learning algorithms and statistical modeling and inference. Experiences with Generative AI/ LLM application is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in operations, finance, marketing, and engineering to understand business need and scope data science projects.
• Wrangle, process, cleanse, verify, and enrich data from different sources used for analysis.
• Help build data-informed business strategy and roadmaps.
• Translate business needs into data product requirements, evaluate technologies, and identify opportunities to innovate and improve our data science capabilities.
• Use creative problem-solving skills to analyze data and build statistical / machine learning models to help solve business problems from different perspectives.
• Work closely with data engineers to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from both internal and external sources and ensure data quality and timeliness.
• Lead the development of data visualization and dashboards to help the organization monitor performance, generate insights, and continuously improve user experience.
• Establish playbooks to drive process and consistent outcomes.
• Participating in the full life cycle of model development, which spans from business problem discovery, data discovery to model deployment and monitoring.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

PyTorch

Data wrangling

Machine learning

Generative AI

Cloud-native

Education

Master’s or Doctoral degree in Computer Science (with a focus on Data Mining, Machine Learning), Statistics, Econometrics, Physics, or other rigorous quantitative disciplines

Tools

OpenCV

PIL

Vision Transformers

CNNs

Job description

Fanatics Inc. in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Data Engineering, Science, and Analytics team.

You will apply data science to solve business problems using diverse data sources, statistical models, and machine learning algorithms, delivering actionable insights for business actions. You will collaborate with operations, finance, marketing, and engineering, wrangle data, build data-informed roadmaps, and deploy data products, including visualization dashboards and data