Junior Data Scientist

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Job Summary:

FanDuel is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, seeking a Data Scientist for their Sports Modeling & Innovation team. The role involves developing predictive models for sports, collaborating with product and trading teams, and creating data visualizations to drive insights across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• 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

• Construct models, analyzes and solutions in response to a 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

• Create dashboards and data visualizations for analysis and communication

Qualifications:

Required:

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with high proficiency in Python or R, and SQL

• Understanding and application of Bayesian statistics

• Experience building and using models to help create production level products and tools

• Comfortable 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

Preferred:

• A minimum of 1 year 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

• Interest or experience in Sports Gaming and/or Fantasy Sports

Company:

FanDuel is a gaming company that offers sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, horse racing, and online casino games. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. FanDuel has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.