Senior Data Science Manager
Bellevue, WA, United States
OfferUp is looking for an experienced Senior Data Science Manager to lead our Data Science team. The right candidate will have a passion for diving deep on new and existing data sources to help drive actionable recommendations. We seek to delight our users with the safest, simplest and most effective local marketplace app on the planet. Your role as a Data Scientist Manager will be to hire and develop a team of machine learning scientists that partner with all engineering teams to make our products more intelligent.
Here’s more of what you will get to do:
Serve as an analytics advisor to solve business problems using data.
Work with the executive team and business partners to define product requirements, provide analytical support, and create models to enhance the safety of our customers.
Identify opportunities and execute results across the company in product search, personalization recommender, crime risk modeling, user reputation, etc.
Contribute to the development of end-to-end experimentation-forward product improvements from conception/research, to offline testing, then live A/B testing and finally shipping to production.
Leverage the latest machine learning technologies to solve complex business problems.
Develop and grow the data scientists on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
Exceptional written and verbal communication
Requirements:
10+ years of demonstrated experience with machine learning or data science, 5+ years managing a team
Expertise with modeling in Python, and data manipulation in SQL
Hands-on experience in predictive modeling and analyzes to solve real business problems
Strong analysis, problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm development background
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field
Experience in the Trust & Safety, Risk domains, Search, Advertising or Experimentation
Knowledge of the following: entity extraction, semantics in text, image recognition, recommender systems, ranking, LDA, classification
Compensation Range: $250k – $280k base pay
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