Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Sotheby’s is seeking an experienced senior data scientist with a passion for data analysis and a focus on execution. The role involves solving product or business problems using analytics, experimentation, and machine-learning, researching innovative statistical models, implementing models in production, gathering, extracting, compiling, and cleaning data as needed, communicating findings to stakeholders, and keeping current with technical and industry developments.

Requirements

• 3+ years of proven experience as a data scientist
• Strong knowledge of statistics, predictive modeling, machine-learning, and data wrangling
• Proficiency with at least one scripting language (ex. Python) and one data visualization tool (ex. Matplotlib, Tableau)

Responsibilities

• Solve product or business problems using analytics, experimentation, and machine-learning
• Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis
• Implement models in production in collaboration with developers and data engineering
• Own the process of gathering, extracting, compiling, and cleaning data as needed to execute and deliver on data products
• Communicate and present findings and insights to relevant stakeholders and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent ability to communicate complicated and nuanced insights in an accessible language to relevant stakeholders
• Problem-solving aptitude and business sense
• Natural curiosity and creative mind