Sr. Manager, Data Science
Posted on: 12 Apr 2021
Charlotte, NC
Job Description
THE POSITION
We are looking for Data Science leaders to work on our Analytics and Strategy team, who wants to see the impact of their work by making a difference every day. Someone who understands how to use data to make decisions and how to train others to do so. You will play a crucial role in delivering key insights to management through modelling and forecasting. This position will focus on building data science solutions for various business problems like optimizing marketing and email campaigns or building personalized product experiences for our users. The ideal candidate will have experience of managing Data Science teams, will have worked with large and complex data, and will have a track record of driving data-informed decisions.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Help build and lead a phenomenal data science team to deliver outstanding products.
* Partner with marketing and email team, and use/implement a wide array of statistical, econometrics and sophisticated analytic methods, including Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to drive business insights and support data-driven decisions.
* Work closely with product team to identify impactful problems and develop solutions to these problems via machine learning and data science.
* Become experienced on key internal and external data sources. Find opportunities to use new data sources/features to improve existing or develop new machine learning solutions.
* Provide technical guidance in to the broader org on data science and analytics.
* Work with the business teams to set a clear vision and direction for experiments and models.
* Collaborate with software developers to plan and construct the architecture surrounding model deployment.
QUALIFICATIONS
* Practical data science experience with a deep technical background in supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods.
* 2+ years of experience in leading other team members in a formal or informal capacity.
* 4+ years of experience doing quantitative analysis at a technology, consulting or product management company.
* Knowledge of machine learning concepts: loss functions, regularization, feature selection, regression/classification, cross-validation, bagging, kernel methods, sampling, and probability distributions.
* A Masters degree or equivalent experience in Data Science, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Machine Learning/AI or related fields.
* Strong desire to solve tough problems with scientific rigor.
* Strong ability to communicate complex analytical results in forms that resonate with scientific and/or business collaborators, highlighting meaningful insights.
* Familiarity with writing queries and working with databases, with strong skills in SQL.
* Understand underlying scientific experimental setup, process, and analysis and to facilitate effective communication.
* Have a solid understanding of Big Data platforms using the Spark Ecosystem is a plus.
LendingTree
Charlotte, NC
LendingTree, Inc., through its subsidiary, LendingTree, LLC, operates an online loan marketplace for consumers seeking loans in the United States. Its mortgage products comprise purchase and refinance products. The company also provides information, tools, and access to various conditional loan offers for non-mortgage products, including auto loans, credit cards, home equity loans, personal loans, reverse mortgages, small business loans, and student loans. In addition, it offers information, tools, and access to other products, including deposit accounts; credit repair, through which consumers obtain assistance improving their credit profiles; debt relief services, through which consumers obtain assistance negotiating existing loans; and home improvement services, through which consumers have the opportunity to research and find home improvement professional services.
Further, the company provides personal credit data, through which consumers gain insights into how prospective lenders and other third parties view their credit profiles; real estate brokerage services, through which consumers are matched with local realtors who assist them in their home purchase or sale efforts; and various insurance products, including home and automobile, through which consumers are matched with insurance lead aggregators to obtain insurance offers. Additionally, it operates CompareCards, an online source for side-by-side credit card comparison shopping; SimpleTuition, an online marketing platform for student loans; MagnifyMoney, a consumer facing media property that offers editorial content, expert commentary, tools, and resources; and SnapCap, an online platform, which connects business owners with lenders. The company was formerly known as Tree.com, Inc. and changed its name to LendingTree, Inc. in January 2015. LendingTree, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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IndustryBanking/Financial Services
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No. of Employees892
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