Senior Data Scientist

October 29

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The Athletic

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The Athletic is a sports media company known for comprehensive sports coverage and in-depth reporting across various sports such as football, tennis, Formula 1, golf, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and college sports. It provides high-quality articles, live updates, and expert analysis covering significant events and players in the sports world. The platform features content on various leagues and tournaments, providing insights from well-known journalists and analysts. The Athletic aims to set the standard in sports reporting and offers subscription-based access to its content.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

📋 Description

• We are looking for a senior data scientist who will bring a deep understanding of our sportswriting, our in-game experience, and the way our subscribers use The Athletic to help us make our best-in-class product even better. • In this role, you will work closely with our data, product, growth, and engineering teams to develop advanced machine learning models. • These models will help us understand our business, optimize and automate our workflows, and have our product make smarter recommendations. • As a member of our small data science team, your work will have a significant impact at The Athletic.

🎯 Requirements

• 4-6 years of experience as a data scientist with a proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web scale data. • Strong working knowledge of a scripting language like R or Python and how to use it to train machine learning models and put them into production. • A broad 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. • Ability to drive projects with minimal guidance and prioritize high-impact work. • 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

• The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based in Canada. • Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market. • The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.