Senior Data Scientist

Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment creates bold, authentic, and unforgettable experiences that redefine sports, entertainment, and hospitality, The Brooklyn Way. As the parent company of marquee properties including the Brooklyn Nets, NY Liberty and Barclays Center, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment operates at the intersection of live entertainment, premium hospitality, and community engagement.
As it expands its existing portfolio, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment now includes BK MAG, as well as Brooklyn Wine Club, and a hospitality business developing several location-based entertainment properties.
Whether on the court, on stage, or in the workplace, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment is driven by a pursuit of excellence—constantly evolving, innovating, and pushing boundaries to elevate its business and expand its fan base. The company is deeply committed to fostering a culture of belonging and inclusion, both internally and across its communities, ensuring that every interaction reflects its values of growth mindset, integrity, accountability and care.

We are guided by our core values: 

• Integrity: Be intellectually honest at all times. Demonstrate the highest professional and ethical standards.
• Care: Care for everything and everyone around us. Practice empathy, respect, and inclusion to promote an environment of excellence and success.
• Growth Mindset: Develop ourselves and those around us. Experiment, learn, and improve from everything we do.
• Accountability: Deliver on our word, take responsibility for our actions, and work in the interest of our team.

SUMMARY

We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to modernize how we build, deploy, and maintain predictive and statistical models. This isn't a role for maintaining what exists; it's for someone who sees what data science should look like in three years and can start building toward it now.

You'll blend applied statistical judgment with MLOps operating excellence, and you'll do it with an AI-first approach. You use modern AI tooling to accelerate model development, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and documentation, while maintaining the rigor and reliability that production systems require. When automation isn't enough, you build.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports. You'll set the standard for how machine learning gets done at Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment and help the broader team ship faster and more confidently.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Own the end-to-end model lifecycle: establish and run the operating model for how we develop, validate, deploy, monitor, and iterate ML and statistical models in production.
• Be AI-first in model development: use AI to accelerate feature ideation, experimentation, model prototyping, documentation, and troubleshooting—building repeatable workflows that scale beyond individual projects.
• Provide statistical and methodological leadership: advise teams on appropriate techniques (inference vs prediction, experimental vs observational methods, uncertainty, bias/variance tradeoffs), and set standards for model validity and interpretation.
• Design practical MLOps patterns: implement lightweight, scalable patterns for versioning, reproducibility, evaluation, CI/CD, and monitoring (data drift, model drift, performance regressions).
• Enable faster, safer deployment: partner with engineering and analytics to productionize models and ensure they are reliable, observable, and maintainable with clear ownership and runbooks.
• Standardize evaluation and governance: define requirements for testing, backtesting, model cards/notes, documentation, and approval pathways—especially for models that influence decisions.
• Stay current and integrate new technology thoughtfully: evaluate emerging tools and practices; separate signal from noise; integrate improvements into the workflow without chasing hype.
• Uplevel the team through enablement: create playbooks, templates, and training so analysts and scientists can ship models with consistent quality and speed.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus.
• 5+ years in applied machine learning, data science, analytics, or related roles with demonstrated ownership of models from development through production impact.
• AI-first work style: you habitually use AI to accelerate how you think, build, and communicate—and you can explain your approach.
• Solid grounding in statistical inference and modeling (e.g., regression/classification, time series, causal thinking, experiment design/measurement, uncertainty estimation).
• Practical experience with MLOps concepts: reproducibility, model versioning, evaluation, deployment patterns, monitoring/alerting, and data quality checks.
• Comfort working with modern data ecosystems (warehouses, pipelines, BI consumers), and partnering with engineering to productionize solutions.
• Strong SQL and deep comfort working directly in Snowflake to validate logic, troubleshoot discrepancies, and build repeatable analyses a plus.

WHO YOU ARE

• A fast learner of AI tooling: you enjoy experimenting with new tools, quickly separating signal from noise, and integrating practical improvements into repeatable workflows.
• Strong communicator: ability to explain model behavior, tradeoffs, and uncertainty clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

COMPENSATION

$100,000 - $160,000

Full-time employees are eligible for a robust slate of total rewards, including:

• Bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; HSA and FSA eligibility
• 401k Employer Match at 4%
• Competitive PTO policy & Company Holidays
• Parental leave policy eligible after 6 months of service
• Access to events at Barclays Center, subject to ticket availability
• Free lunch onsite Monday - Thursday; onsite barista bar
• And more!

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work primarily in an office environment. 

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) Employer. It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of the Company not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion/creed, gender, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy and lactation accommodations, marital status, partnership status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, alienage, immigration, or citizenship status, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, height and weight, arrest or conviction record, caregiver status, credit history, unemployment status, sexual and reproductive health decisions, salary history, status as a victim of domestic violence, stalking, and sex offenses, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local laws.