Senior Data Scientist - Innovation

**Senior Data Scientist - Innovation**Location: Jersey City**ABOUT FANDUEL**FanDuel Group ("FanDuel") is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media.FanDuel has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and 28 retail locations. FanDuel is based in New York with offices in New Jersey, Georgia, California, Oregon, Canada and Scotland.Its networks FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer over-the-top platforms.FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).**THE ROSTER****THE POSITION**Our roster has an opening with your name on itWe are looking for a Senior Data Scientist for our Sports Modeling & Innovation team to tackle our most challenging sports modeling problems. Throughout the lifecycle of a model, from data collection through results, you will create predictive models of sports to build tools and dashboards, price markets, and drive actionable insights across FanDuel Group. You will be working closely with the product and risk and trading teams, modeling player performance, team performance, and game outcomes among other challenges. You will promote effective communication of model outputs and contribute to a collaborative code environment**THE GAME PLAN**Everyone on our team has a part to play* Develop, iterate, and take to production machine learning models to predict sports outcomes and solve problems* Iterate and improve on betting product range to ensure market leading offering* Continuous improvement in pricing techniques-both at an individual level and working with trading teams to optimize predictive and derivative model pricing* Choose appropriate tools, systems and models to solve large data problems* Troubleshoot and resolve coding and modeling problems presented by others* Proactively seek opportunities or problems to be analyzed* Choose the 'best' approach given available resources* Put together project plans for the Data Science team to follow* Presents to senior leaders confidently and with impact* Construct models, analyses and solutions in response toa question or problem posed by a stakeholder or colleague* Manage the data preparation process from collection through cleaning* Build robust predictive models, showing capabilities of feature and model selection* Contribute to a production code environment* Work with decision-makers across the company to understand their goals, identify opportunities to use data to develop new insights and improve business results* Bring efficiency and automation in the data infrastructure* Create dashboards and data visualizations for analysis and communication* Opportunity to mentor and or coach more junior data scientists**THE STATS**What we're looking for in our next teammate* Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in data science, analytics or engineering preferred* Bachelor's Degree in a highly numerate major (Math, Stats, Econ, etc.) or relevant experience in data science preferred* Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with high proficiency in Python or R, and SQL (or coding language of choice)* Strong understanding and application of Bayesian statistics* Expert in building and using models to help create production level products and tools* Proficient with command line tools and GitHub* Object-oriented design and coding skills* Strong verbal and written communication skills* Ability to work across teams, locations and time zones* Willing to work non-traditional hours when applicable* Interest or experience in Sports Gaming and/or Fantasy Sports**PLAYER BENEFITS**We treat our team rightFrom our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we're committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give. Competitive compensation is just the beginning. As part of our team, you can expect:* An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth* Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love* Career and professional development resources to help you refine your game plan for owning and driving your career and development* Be well, save well and live well - with FanDuel Total Rewards your benefits are one highlight reel after anotherFanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principal states, "We Are One Team!" We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, Veteran status, or another other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included. We want our team to include diverse individuals because diversity of thought, diversity of perspectives, and diversity of experiences leads to better performance. Having a diverse and inclusive workforce is a core value that we believe makes FanDuel stronger and more competitive as One Team!***The applicable salary range for this position is $126,000 - $173,800 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.***#LI-HybridPlease **Accept** our recommended settings or **Manage** them individually.**Analytics**We use anonymous analytics to better understand how our website is being used so we can provide the best user experience (/_ga, /_gid, /_gcl/_au, /_gat)#J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-02-01