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An online, direct-to-consumer subscription media company, The Athletic was founded in 2015 to cover "every sports story that matters." The Athletic is committed to storytelling and
Data Scientist
Location
United States
Posted
108 days ago
Salary
$125K - $135K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Data Scientist
The Athletic
• 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.
Job 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 a scripting language like R or 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
- Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
- Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
- 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
- Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
- Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
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