Mitchell Martin, Inc. Looking for Data Science – Search/Recommendations at Austin, TX Full Time

Our client, a realty company, is seeking a Data Science – Search/Recommendations

Location: Remote

Position Type: Full Time

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop predictive, explanatory models and machine learning algorithms.
• Create automated learning systems that gracefully scale to increasing complexity and expectation.
• Perform exploratory analysis on client’s wealth of data including consumer web and mobile behavior and North America’s most comprehensive and up-to-date listings and properties data set.
• Effectively partner with product and engineering teams to build new data driven and machine learning based features for enriching the consumer experience of home shoppers, renters and sellers.
• Design and build data science solutions to drive revenue growth, customer retention and support strategic decision making.
• Generate descriptive visualizations and presentations to communicate insights.
• Drive A/B & multivariate tests and design of experiments to facilitate testing of new product and design features, with focus on improving engagement, retention, and conversion.
• Help improve the scope of our data sets by identifying new data collection and procurement opportunities on an ongoing basis.
• Mentor a team of data scientists on data exploration, machine learning and developing data-oriented products.
• Work with a sense of ownership and urgency, advocate for experimentation based, agile culture.

Requirements:

• MS in computer science, statistics, mathematics, operations research or related fields.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in data science, machine learning or applied statistics.
• Experience with Machine Learning, Learning to Rank, statistical models and data mining tools and underlying algorithms.
• Experienced in Python, R, Spark or other languages and frameworks appropriate for large scale analysis of structured and unstructured data.
• Working experience with relational databases (SQL) and large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with experiment design and A/B and multivariate tests.
• Proven track record of developing online data products.
• Strong creative thinking and problem solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.