Our ideal candidate is someone with a passion for building data pipelines and a
hacker at heart.
and transform that data into information that powers decisions for millions of h
ome buyers, renters, dreamers, and real estate professionals. Data is the main a
sset and we want to extract increasing value from it to help our business lines
make critical decisions and to build data products that will delight and inform
our visitors.
We seek very seasoned Data Scientist with lead experience join our budding data
science program and develop it to its full potential. As a senior member of the
data product team, you will be responsible for the ideation, research, predicti
ve modeling, and machine learning algorithms for data products to delight and in
form visitors to realtor.com and its mobile apps. You will also serve as a ment
or for the junior data scientists on the team and provide oversight on their ind
ividual projects.
Responsibilities:
Perform exploratory analysis on Move s wealth of data including consumer web and m
obile behavior and North America s most comprehensive listing and properties data
set.
Effectively partner with product management and the data product team on buildin
g new data driven features for personalization, targeting, recommendations, and
market insights for a great consumer experience
Drive A/B, multivariate tests and design of experiments to facilitate testing of
new product and design features, with focus on improving engagement, retention,
and conversion.
Select, apply, and tune a diverse set of tools to coherently solve challenging b
usiness goals
Create automated learning systems that gracefully scale to increasing complexity
and expectation
Develop predictive, explanatory models and machine learning algorithms
Generate descriptive visualizations and presentations to communicate insights
Mentor a team of data scientists on data exploration, machine learning and deve
loping data based products
Work with a sense of ownership and urgency, advocate for experimentation based,
agile culture.
Requirements:
5+ years experience with machine learning, data mining, statistical modeling too
ls and underlying algorithms
5+ years experience in R, Perl, Python, spark, or other languages and frameworks
appropriate for large scale analysis of numerical and textual data
Working experience with relational databases and SQL
Experience with experiment design and A/B and multivariate tests
Experience and proven track record developing data products for internet industr
y
Strong creative thinking and problem solving skills
Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills