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Salary: USD 125,000 - 145,000 / annual
The Athletic is seeking a Data Scientist to join its data science team and help optimize its sports media platform. You will work with data, product, growth, and engineering teams to develop advanced machine learning models that drive key product goals and business outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and implement mathematical models to predict user behavior (e.g., which free users are likely to convert to subscribers) and power recommendation engines
- Lead hands-on analysis and modeling projects, selecting appropriate analytical methods and complexity levels for each problem
- Conduct quantitative analysis to understand user behavior and develop actionable recommendations
- Design and develop data science pipelines for production environments
- Guide complex experiments and statistical analyses
- Contribute to building an outstanding data science environment
The role is 100% remote for candidates based in the United States or Canada. You will have significant impact on The Athletic's product strategy and user experience across its 500+ newsroom covering 47+ North American markets and English Premier League football.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 2–4 years of experience as a data scientist or data analyst with proven ability to apply scientific methods to real-world problems at web scale
- Strong working knowledge of Python for training machine learning models and deploying them to production
- Solid SQL proficiency with ability to efficiently query and write to data warehouses
- Understanding of subscription media business models and recommendation engine design, with ability to translate into insights and optimizations
- Knowledge of statistical principles and their application to predictive modeling
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to build cross-functional relationships
- Ability to explain sophisticated concepts to diverse audiences and craft compelling data-driven narratives
