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[Remote] Data Scientist (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Athletic is seeking a Data Scientist to improve its product through machine learning and analysis of its business and subscriber behavior. The role partners with data, product, growth, and engineering teams to build models, optimize workflows, and develop smarter recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and implement mathematical models to drive key long-term product goals, like training a model that predicts which of our free users are most likely to subscribe, or recommending the right articles to the right users at the right time
- Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, drawing from multiple analytical methods to choose the right tool and right level of complexity appropriate for the job
- Use quantitative analysis to deeply understand what our users are saying, and to develop recommendations based on that analysis
- Design and develop data science pipelines in production
- Guide complex experiments
- Cultivate an outstanding data science environment
Skills
- 2-4 years of experience as a data scientist or data analyst with a proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web scale data
- A strong working knowledge of Python and how to use it to train machine learning models and put them into production
- A solid understanding of SQL with an ability to efficiently pull and write to our data warehouses
- An understanding of subscription media and recommendation engines, with the ability to turn it into insights and optimizations
- Knowledge of statistical principles and how they apply to predictive modeling
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to build cross-functional relationships
- Can explain sophisticated concepts to diverse audiences and craft compelling stories with data
Benefits
- 100% remote for candidates currently based in the United States or Canada.
- For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
- For roles in the U.S., benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
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