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About the role

  • Data Scientist developing machine-learning models for The Athletic’s sports media platform. Optimizing subscriptions, workflows, experiments, and personalized article recommendations.

Responsibilities

  • Develop advanced machine learning models to understand the business, optimize and automate workflows, and improve product recommendations
  • Design, build, and implement mathematical models for long-term product goals, such as predicting free-user subscriptions and recommending articles
  • Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, selecting appropriate analytical methods and complexity
  • Use quantitative analysis to understand user feedback and develop recommendations
  • Design and develop data science pipelines in production
  • Guide complex experiments
  • Cultivate an outstanding data science environment
  • Collaborate closely with data, product, growth, and engineering teams

Requirements

  • 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
  • Strong working knowledge of Python and how to use it to train machine learning models and put them into production
  • Solid understanding of SQL with an ability to efficiently pull and write to data warehouses
  • 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
  • Ability to explain sophisticated concepts to diverse audiences and craft compelling stories with data

Benefits

  • Variable pay, such as an annual bonus
  • Restricted stock
  • Medical benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
  • Company-matching 401(k) plan
  • Paid vacation
  • Paid sick days
  • Paid parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Professional development programs

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$125,000 - $145,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

PythonSQL

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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