Sr Data Scientist, RDC Next

Description

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

About This Role:

This role serves as a senior analytics partner on RDC Next, with a focus on Realtor.com Plus — Realtor.com's partnership platform connecting MLS organizations, their agent members, and consumers in a single collaborative home search experience. The position owns experimentation, business analytics, and reporting across both sides of the platform, delivering actionable insights that directly influence the product roadmap, market launch strategy, and broader business strategy.

By partnering with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Finance, Industry Marketing, and MLS partner data teams, the role ensures alignment on key business objectives, facilitates rapid innovation, and supports scalable solutions through advanced analytics, agent and consumer behavior insights, and performance measurement. The role is critical in surfacing high-impact opportunities as the network scales to new markets, improving data quality, and enabling self-service reporting to empower teams across the organization.

Top Reasons to Apply:

• High-Impact Strategic Ownership on Core Flagship Initiatives This isn't a passive maintenance role. Supporting the RDC+ platform and RDC Next initiatives places you at the absolute center of Realtor.com's future consumer experience. You will directly influence agent and consumer home-buying journeys—driving product adoption, running high-stakes A/B experiments, and delivering proactive insights that shape core business strategy alongside cross-functional leadership.
• Cutting-Edge "AI-Enabled Analytics" & Agentic Workflows Realtor.com is actively redefining how data teams operate by building advanced AI platforms—moving far beyond basic prompting. You will work with top-tier tooling (Claude Code, Gemini) to build dedicated AI agents, leverage RAG, and potentially construct Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations to automate complex reporting workflows. It offers a rare opportunity to pioneer and scale a master AI network that minimizes manual data tasks.
• Strong Career Progression with High-Visibility Leadership: You will serve as a foundational anchor for a newly structured team under seasoned leadership. Beyond hands-on analytical execution, you will mentor incoming data scientists, establish code and documentation standards, and bridge the gap between Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and Product leadership, setting you up as a go-to technical authority in the organization.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and marketing stakeholders across Realtor.com to identify the consumer and business questions where data science can add the most value, and shape product strategy with the answers.
• Own analytics end to end for consumer product initiatives — define success metrics and measurement plans, partner with engineering on instrumentation, run the deep-dive analysis, and land clear recommendations with product leadership.
• Apply advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to consumer behavior and clickstream data to surface the drivers of engagement, retention, and conversion, and translate those findings into strategic recommendations.
• Design and analyze experiments (A/B and quasi-experimental), and raise the bar on how the organization measures impact — from sound test design through correct interpretation of results.
• Build and maintain the datasets, metric definitions, pipelines, and dashboards that make consumer analytics trustworthy and self-serve for partner teams.
• Mentor other analysts and data scientists, and help set the analytical standards, documentation habits, and code quality expectations for the team.
• Partner closely with Data Engineering and Machine Learning Engineering teams to productionize models and improve the data foundation the whole organization relies on.
  AI-Enabled Analytics
• Use AI tooling — LLM assistants, AI coding and analysis agents, and internal AI platforms — to accelerate every stage of the analytics lifecycle, from data discovery and pipeline development to exploratory analysis and communicating results.
• Design and build AI-enabled analytics: LLM-powered synthesis of unstructured inputs such as consumer feedback and reviews, semantic search across data assets, and conversational or agentic interfaces that let stakeholders answer their own questions.
• Apply sound judgment and practical guardrails to AI-assisted work — validating AI-generated code and output, recognizing where models are unreliable, handling sensitive data appropriately, and being transparent about where AI was used.
• Stay current as the tooling evolves: evaluate new AI capabilities, pressure-test them on real problems, share what works with the team, and help shape how the broader analytics organization adopts AI.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or a related quantitative field
• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or Analytics professional, with a strong track record of delivering impactful, data-driven solutions — experience supporting a consumer-facing digital product is preferred
• Strong proficiency in SQL and in Python or R, along with related data analysis libraries (e.g. Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn)
• Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake) and with BI or product analytics tooling (e.g. Tableau, Looker, Amplitude)
• Expertise in data visualization and storytelling to effectively communicate complex findings
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and experimental design
• Demonstrated hands-on use of AI tools in day-to-day analytical work, plus the curiosity and self-direction to keep learning as new AI capabilities emerge — we expect this role to help define what AI-enabled analytics looks like on our team
• Product sense and a strategic mindset that enables one to learn how the business operates, understand consumer and stakeholder pain points, and deliver recommendations that drive measurable value
• Strong communication skills to effectively communicate complex information and strategies to non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or agentic workflows in a data or analytics context
• Experience working with large-scale behavioral or clickstream data and modern data stack tooling (e.g. dbt, Airflow)
• Experience partnering with product teams in real estate, marketplaces, or another two-sided consumer business

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work four days in our Austin headquarters where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.