Fanatics · 4 hours ago
Senior Data Scientist
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$152K/yr - $190K/yr
4+ years expFanatics is a transformative company that has evolved into a mobile-first consumer brand focused on sports merchandise. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to apply data science skills to extract insights and solve business problems, collaborating across various functions to drive data-informed strategies.
eSportsManufacturingRetailSporting GoodsSports
Responsibilities
Collaborate with cross-functional partners in operations, finance, marketing, and engineering to understand business need and scope data science projects
Wrangle, process, cleanse, verify, and enrich data from different sources used for analysis
Help build data-informed business strategy and roadmaps
Translate business needs into data product requirements, evaluate technologies, and identify opportunities to innovate and improve our data science capabilities
Use creative problem-solving skills to analyze data and build statistical / machine learning models to help solve business problems from different perspectives
Work closely with data engineers to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from both internal and external sources and ensure data quality and timeliness
Lead the development of data visualization and dashboards to help the organization monitor performance, generate insights, and continuously improve user experience
Establish playbooks to drive process and consistent outcomes
Participating in the full life cycle of model development, which spans from business problem discovery, data discovery to model deployment and monitoring
Qualification
Required
Master's or Doctoral degree in Computer Science (with a focus on Data Mining, Machine Learning), Statistics, Econometrics, Physics, or other rigorous quantitative disciplines that require processing and modeling data at a complex and large scale
4+ years of professional experience as a data scientist
Proficient in Python, SQL, Spark, the associated Python and Spark packages commonly used by data scientists, and Deep Learning libraries, such as PyTorch
Proficient in data wrangling and exploratory analysis, with the ability to extract meaningful insights from complex datasets and establish robust data foundations for downstream modeling efforts
Strong understanding of and practical experience in a wide range of machine learning algorithms and statistical modeling and inference
Experiences with Generative AI/ LLM application is a strong plus
Experience and knowledge with computer vision domain, library such as OpenCV, PIL, and modern CV architectures (CNNs, Vision Transformers, Image Gen AI etc.) is preferred
Experience in software development, system design and deployment is preferred
Working experience in cloud-native technology
Experience working with large structured and unstructured datasets stored in relational and NOSQL databases
Out-of-the-box thinker and problem solver who can turn ambiguous business problems into clear data-driven solutions that deliver meaningful business impacts
Excellent organizational skills, verbal and written communication skills, and presentation skills
Preferred
Experience and knowledge with computer vision domain, library such as OpenCV, PIL, and modern CV architectures (CNNs, Vision Transformers, Image Gen AI etc.) is preferred
Experience in software development, system design and deployment is preferred
Company
Fanatics
Fanatics is a sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels. It is a sub-organization of Kynetic.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.9BKey Investors
Clearlake Capital GroupNational Football LeagueAlameda Research
2022-12-06Private Equity· $700M
2022-03-02Private Equity· $1.5B
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $10M
Leadership Team
J
Joseph Bozich
Advisor to Chief Executive Officer
Michael Mahan
CEO
Recent News
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