Underdog Fantasy is hiring a
Senior Data Scientist

Summary

The job is for a Senior Data Scientist at Underdog, a fast-growing sports gaming company. The role involves optimizing marketing programs through predictive modeling, analyzing business performance, designing experiments, creating dashboards, mentoring junior analysts, and working with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience building models to solve complex marketing problems (e.g., MMM, multi-touch attribution, CLTV, churn, etc.)
• Strong skills in SQL, at least one of either Python or R, and cloud-based data platforms

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver models and analyses that optimize marketing programs
• Analyze business and marketing performance, identifying trends and root causes
• Design and execute experiments, interpret results, and enhance marketing performance
• Create interactive dashboards, visualizations, and data/modeling applications to communicate insights and other model outputs
• Implement and maintain model evaluation, monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to ensure the health and accuracy of Underdog’s modeling systems
• Mentor junior analysts and data scientists, lead technical initiatives, and drive results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify data-driven solutions to a variety of business problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong interest in sports
• Prior experience in the sports betting industry
• Prior experience building MMM, MTA, Churn, or CLTV models

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO for salaried employees (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents