THE POSITION

Our roster has an opening with your name on it

We are looking for a Data Science Manager for our Sports Modeling & Innovation team to tackle our most challenging sports modeling problems. Throughout the lifecycle of a model, from data collection through results, you will create predictive models of sports to build tools and dashboards, price markets, and drive actionable insights across FanDuel Group. You will be working closely with the product and risk and trading teams, modeling player performance, team performance, and game outcomes among other challenges. This role will also manage and develop other data scientists. You will promote effective communication of model outputs and contribute to a collaborative code environment.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN

Everyone on our team has a part to play

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
Manage a group of Data Scientists to develop production-ready models and solve company-wide challenges
Choose appropriate tools, systems and models to solve large data problems
Troubleshoot and resolve coding and modeling problems presented by others
Proactively seek opportunities or problems to be analyzed
Put together project plans for the Data Science team to follow
Present to senior leaders confidently and with impact
Construct models, analyses 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
Identify, grow and develop top talent within the Data Science organization
Lead regular forums within or across teams to ensure key decisions and conclusions are disseminated and understood
Make significant contributions to, sets agenda for and helps steer large group meetings
Determine inefficiencies in ways of working and seeks to solve them

THE STATS

What we're looking for in our next teammate

Minimum of 5 years’ 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
Experience managing or mentoring other data scientists or analysts
Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with high proficiency in Python or R, and SQL (or coding language of choice)
Strong understanding and application of Bayesian statistics
Expert in building and using models to help create production level products and tools
Proficient with command line tools and GitHub
Object-oriented design and coding skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills - present findings and analysis to senior management, being totally accountable for the entire agenda of the projects owned
Help the stakeholders in understanding the business KPIs
Bring efficiency and automation in the data infrastructure
Ability to work across teams, locations and time zones
Willing to work nontraditional hours when applicable
Interest or experience in Sports Gaming and/or Fantasy Sports

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.