Senior Manager, Data Science

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FanDuel Group 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 Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Betfair US, DRAFT, and TVG. FanDuel Group has a presence across 45 states and 8 million customers. The company is based in New York with offices in California, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, and Scotland. 

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Data Science to tackle our most challenging analytics problems. In this role you’ll be working hands on and also managing and developing other data scientists.

What you’ll do

  • Work with decision-makers across the company to understand their goals, identify opportunities to use data to develop new insights and improve business results
  • Provide data-driven recommendations to stakeholders, articulating complex technical concepts as necessary
  • Manage, mentor and coach a team of data scientists
  • Develop, iterate and take to production machine learning models to solve problems including:
    • Predicting churn and other aspects of customer behavior
    • Fraud detection and prevention
    • Cross-Sell recommendations
    • Optimizing marketing spend
  • Build and manage models to support strategic planning for Marketing and Commercial teams:
    • Attribution models
    • Marketing Mix Models
    • Predicting lifetime customer value
  • Engage with engineering to build scalable tools to accelerate the conversion of data to insight

Who we’re looking for

  • Must have:
    • A minimum of 5 years’ experience on a data science team
    • Extensive experience building and deploying predictive models to deliver measurable performance improvements
    • Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with high proficiency in Python and fluency in SQL
    • Experience using AWS, comfortable with command line tools and GitHub
    • Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work across teams, and with colleagues in other countries and time zones
    • Experience managing and coaching other data scientists
  • Expertise in machine learning algorithms
  • Interest in fantasy sports
  • Nice to have:
    • Knowledge of Spark / Hadoop / EMR
    • Understanding and application of Bayesian statistics
    • Time series analysis methods and approaches
    • Masters / PhD in relevant field

What you get in return

Beyond working with such a great team!

  • An exciting environment with real growth
  • Contribute to exciting products used by a highly passionate user base
  • Personal learning and development opportunities
  • 401K with company contribution match
  • Generous healthcare & value creation share plan

 There's more, but we don't want to go on and on!

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgment or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

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1375 Broadway, New York , NY 10018

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