Senior Data Scientist, Baseball Analytics

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain robust predictive models and data pipelines to generate insights for player evaluation, acquisition, development, and performance optimization.
• Craft compelling written reports and data visualizations to effectively communicate complex analyses to diverse audiences, including both technical specialists and Baseball Operations leadership.
• Partner with the Baseball Systems team to seamlessly integrate new analytical findings into team applications and proactively identify and address data quality issues.
• Take an active role in evaluating cutting-edge analytics and research from public and academic spaces to drive innovative ideas and methodologies to help continuously improve the department.
• Introduce creative and novel methodologies to improve existing processes and enhance departmental decision making

Requirements

• Advanced understanding of modern statistical and machine learning methods and an advanced proficiency with popular data science languages and libraries.
• Praactical understanding of how to approach research questions to drive actionable insights.
• Able to visualize, present and disseminate analyses to a diverse group of stakeholders (leadership, coaches, players, scouts, etc.) in a clean, intuitive, and engaging way.
• PhD in a quantitative field (such as statistics, engineering, applied mathematics, physics, quantitative social sciences, computer science, computer vision, or operations research) or equivalent professional experience.
• Expert proficiency in SQL and programming languages such as R or Python.

Qualifications

• A passion for baseball and a strong desire to contribute to building a championship-winning team.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or PowerBI.
• Experience with data warehousing and ETL processes.

Benefits

• The salary range for this position is $100,000–$140,000, based on relevant experience and internal equity.
• Our full-time employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, retirement plans, paid time off, and more.

Pay

• The salary range for this position is $100,000–$140,000, based on relevant experience and internal equity.

Schedule

• Full-time position.