We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist for our Sports Modeling & Innovation team to tackle our most challenging sports modeling problems. You will work on revolutionizing sports modeling through innovative pricing strategies, live betting, and forward-thinking methodologies. In this role, you will drive the development and implementation of cutting-edge models, tools, and strategies to enhance our trading product offerings. You will have an opportunity to mentor other data scientists focused on creative solutions, working closely with cross-functional groups including trading and engineering.
Innovation & Strategy-Identify and prioritize strategic initiatives and high-stakes commercial opportunities-Experiment with and evaluate new techniques to inform long-term trading product strategy-Conduct research on emerging technologies to enhance sports modeling capabilitiesLeadership-Identify, grow and develop top talent within the Data Science organization-Present to senior stakeholders with impact-Build trust and strong relationships with teams and stakeholders through high performance and empathy-Guide regular forums within or across teams to ensure key points and conclusions are disseminated and understood-Makes significant contributions to, sets agenda for and helps steer large group meetingsSports Modeling-Develop, iterate, and take to production machine learning models to predict sports outcomes and solve problems-Iterate and improve on betting product range to ensure best in market offering-Continuous improvement in pricing techniques - both at an individual level and working with trading teams to optimize predictive and derivative model pricing-Choose appropriate tools, systems and models to solve large data problems-Troubleshoot and resolve coding and modeling problems presented by others-Proactively seek opportunities or problems to be explored-Build robust predictive models, showing capabilities of feature and model selection-Work with decision-makers across the company to understand their goals, identify opportunities to use data to develop new insights and improve business resultsCreate dashboards and data visualizations for analysis and communicationIdentify inefficiencies in ways of working and seeks to solve themEngage with engineering to build scalable tools to accelerate the conversion of data to insightManage the data preparation process from collection through cleaningContribute to a production code environmentIdentify, grow and develop top talent within the Data Science organization
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