News Corp.

Staff Data Scientist

Posted on: 19 Jan 2021

Santa Clara, CA

Job Description

Staff Data Scientist

Santa Clara, CA

At realtor.com, we process terabytes of data everyday and transform that data into information that powers decisions for millions of home buyers, renters, dreamers, and real estate professionals. We aim to radically simplify home buying/selling and help more people achieve the American dream on our realtor.com website and mobile apps.

What will you do?

We seek a highly seasoned Staff Data Scientist to join our experienced data science team and help take it to the next level. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for the development of innovative concepts, research, predictive modeling, and machine learning algorithms. You will serve as a mentor for the junior data scientists on the team and provide guidance on their individual projects.

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 realtor.coms wealth of data including consumer web and mobile behavior and North Americas 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.

What will you bring?

Requirements:

* PhD/MS in computer science, statistics, mathematics, operations research or related fields.
* 4+ years of relevant experience in data science, machine learning or applied statistics.

* Experience with Machine Learning, NLP or Computer Vision 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.

About realtor.com

Atrealtor.com, we believe that everyone deserves a home of their own. Were a community of nearly 2,000 employees that work hard to ensure that from the moment someone starts dreaming about a new home, to the moment they walk in the door and beyond, were there to lend a helping hand. Every month, 70 million people trust us with their journey home by visiting our site and mobile apps, and wed love to have you join our team to help.

Weve got great offices across Canada and the US and lots of sweet jobs to choose from, so were hoping youll join us on our journey to make home buying and selling easier, and more rewarding for everyone.

Lets make a difference, together. For Real.

LI-IH1

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets

News Corp.

New York, New York

News Corporation, a media and information services company, creates and distributes content for consumers and businesses worldwide. It operates in five segments: News and Information Services, Book Publishing, Digital Real Estate Services, Subscription Video Services, and Other. The company distributes content and data products, including The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and DJX through various media channels, such as newspapers, newswires, Websites, mobile device applications, tablets and e-book readers, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, video, and podcasts. It also owns and operates daily, Sunday, weekly, and bi-weekly newspapers comprising The Australian, The Weekend Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun, Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Sunday Mail, The Advertiser, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, and New York Post, as well as digital mastheads and other Websites.

In addition, the company offers home-delivered shopper media that include free-standing inserts and direct mail products; in-store marketing products and services primarily to consumer packaged goods manufacturers; in-store merchandising services; and digital marketing solutions. Further, it publishes general fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and religious books; and provides sports programming content to approximately 200 channels distributed through cable, satellite, and Internet protocol, as well as broadcast rights to live sporting events. Additionally, the company offers property and property-related services on its Websites and mobile applications, as well as residential and commercial property Websites; online real estate services; and professional software and services products, which comprise Top Producer, FiveStreet, and ListHub. News Corporation was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

  • Industry
    Media/Entertainment
  • No. of Employees
    28,000
  • Jobs Posted
    3303

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