Best Buy · 2 hours ago
Lead Data Scientist
Richfield Minnesota
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$119K/yr - $212K/yr
6+ years expBest Buy is a company dedicated to enriching the lives of customers through technology. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will apply innovative statistical and machine learning methods to analyze complex data and provide insights that drive business value and enhance customer experiences.
E-CommerceInternetRetailShopping
Responsibilities
Leading the application of scientific methods to solve real-world business problems using data across multiple business domains
Developing and implementing cutting edge statistical and machine learning methods to dig deep into complex data to deliver data-driven solutions across all areas of the business including market growth, retail portfolio, customer retention, services, etc
Employing broad and deep knowledge of statistics, analytics, and machine learning to contribute to and enhance Best Buy’s core data science capabilities
Leading discussions with business partners to identify the biggest opportunities to bring Best Buy to the next level and influence key decisions around real products that impact and improve the lives of millions of people
Acting as a mentor for junior data scientists, assign tasks and review for quality and completion
Conducting discussions with technical and non-technical product team members to determine feasibilities of recommended solutions. Collaborating with other engineers and product team members to implement and deploy scalable solutions
Presenting results of any analyses in a manner that is interpretable and technical approach of machine learning product design to team and leadership
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a highly quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Operations Research, etc) or equivalent experience
6+ years of experience in data science, data analysis, data mining or other similar business functions. Advanced degrees in relevant fields may be counted towards experience requirements
2+ years of experience working in cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Advanced proficiency with at least one data science/analytics programming language (Python, R, Julia)
Advanced skills in data wrangling, validating data and solutions, supervised & unsupervised learning, AI & ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), designing complex algorithms and statistical models, and applied mathematics & statistics
Preferred
Master's degree or Ph.D in a highly quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Operations Research, etc)
Experience using high performance machine learning and/or data mining frameworks
Experience building distributed data processing pipelines (e.g. Apache Spark, Apache Beam)
5-8 years hands-on data science experience (in addition to advanced degree)
Ability to effectively communicate technical information to a wide spectrum of cross-functional team members
Benefits
Competitive pay
Generous employee discount
Physical and mental well-being support
Company
Best Buy
Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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Leadership Team
Corie Barry
Chief Executive Officer
Natasha (Tong) Young
Product Manager - Profile
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