Fanatics

Senior Data Scientist

Fanatics$194K — $214K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Marketing Analytics, Data Analytics, Statistics, or related field
  • 4 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist or similar role
  • 3 years of experience developing machine learning models for customer marketing
  • 3 years of experience creating end-to-end machine learning pipelines
  • Proficient in Python and R, with experience in cloud environments like AWS
  • Strong communication skills to convey complex data insights to non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

  • Build and train machine learning models for marketing initiatives
  • Deploy models into production at scale using Docker
  • Conduct exploratory analysis to uncover business opportunities
  • Create and manage data pipelines for effective model training
  • Engage with business partners to align data science with business goals
  • Transform data findings into actionable insights for stakeholders
  • Prepare reports and visualizations to communicate results

Benefits

  • Partial telecommuting options available
  • Up to 5% domestic travel for meetings
  • Collaborative work environment at a central NYC location
  • Exposure to cross-functional projects involving marketing and technology
  • Opportunity to drive significant impact in customer marketing strategies
Full Job Description
Build and train machine learning models for customer marketing purposes (CRM, ad bidding, etc.) (25%): Define the dataset used for the model; Determine the model architecture (xgboost, regression, etc.); Create the train/test/score pipeline. Deploy models into production at scale (25%): Create docker images for models; Put containers in appropriate artifact stores; Create DAGs to run pipelines. Conduct exploratory analysis to understand how the business is run and how to model it (25%): Identify potential opportunities to drive revenue and contribution growth and lead projects to evaluate them; Utilize a wide range of data science capabilities from exploratory analysis and modeling, to creating reports and dashboards, and A/B testing; Identify any new data capture required and build custom data sets to enable reports of novel features and processes; Load and join data from multiple locations; Aggregate, filter, and summarize data; Create plots and presentations from the data. Communicate with business partners to align business goals with science techniques and report results outward (25%): Define requirements from stakeholders and explicitly define the business problem; Apply innovative problem-solving skills to dissect data and build machine learning / statistical models to solve business problems from different perspectives; Determine the data science techniques that align with those problems; Use strong communication skills (written and verbal) to report on results and communicate with the business to understand if the problem is solved. Up to 5% domestic travel may be required for meetings. Partial telecommuting permitted; onsite at 95 Morton Street, New York, NY 10014 when not telecommuting. Salary: $194,940 - $214,940 per year. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Marketing Analytics, Data Analytics, Statistics, or related field, plus 4 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist, Data Analyst, or any occupation, job title, or position creating machine learning models to use in production systems or to generate insights for businesses. Must also have experience in the following: 3 years of professional experience developing and training machine learning models using data science techniques including XGBoost, regressions, hyper-parameter tuning, and feature selection to support customer marketing initiatives including CRM; 3 years of professional experience building end-to-end machine learning pipelines including data definition, and train/test splits; 3 years of professional experience performing exploratory data analysis by loading, joining, aggregating, filtering, and visualizing data from multiple sources; 3 years of professional experience continuously running a model in production; 3 years of professional experience collaborating with marketing and other partner teams to define business problems, gather stakeholder requirements, and align modeling approaches with strategic goals; 3 years of professional experience translating complex data science outcomes into actionable insights for non-technical audiences; 3 years of professional experience determining and applying data science techniques (including customer segmentation and lifetime value models) to solve clearly defined business problems in a marketing context; 3 years of professional experience writing code in Python and R and running data science tasks in managed cloud environments including AWS. CONTACT: Apply online at fanaticsinc.com/careers or email resume to: [redacted]. Must specify Ad Code SFKM in subject line. #LI-DNI #LI-DNP

About Fanatics

Fanatics is a leading retailer of licensed sports merchandise. The company was founded in 1995 and has grown to become the largest online retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise in the world. Fanatics offers a wide range of products, including jerseys, hats, and other apparel, as well as collectibles and memorabilia. The company has partnerships with all major sports leagues and teams, as well as with individual athletes. Fanatics is committed to providing a seamless shopping experience for its customers and has invested heavily in technology and logistics to ensure fast and reliable delivery.
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Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1995

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