Senior Data Science Manager leading high-impact projects and building algorithms at Chess.com. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance chess experience for users.
Responsibilities
Own high-impact data science work across product data science and fair play
Create and build novel algorithms, models, and data-powered features that directly shape the chess experience for our users
Partner across the company on product vision and execution
Work closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and writers
Design and deploy creative heuristics, algorithms, and models that identify cheating at scale
Raise the quality and sophistication of our approaches over time
Manage a lean team of data scientists
Turn strategy into clear team objectives and results
Help data scientists grow into scientists who can operate with more speed and independence over time
Communicate early and often
Requirements
5+ years of data science experience
Strong Python and SQL skills
Experience building and working within data pipelines using BigQuery and GCP or similar cloud databases & storage at scale
Comfortable with agentic workflows and tools (Cursor, Claude Code or similar)
Solid machine learning fundamentals with enough depth to contribute meaningfully to models across the chess data stack
Proven ability to communicate findings clearly to both technical peers and senior non-technical stakeholders
Experience managing or meaningfully mentoring other data scientists or analysts.
Benefits
100% remote (work from anywhere!)
Good overlap between Eastern time through Pacific Time zones
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