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Verified Job On Employer Career Site Job Summary: FanDuel is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, seeking a Data Scientist for their Sports Modeling & Innovation team. The role involves developing predictive models for sports, collaborating with product and trading teams, and creating data visualizations to drive insights across the organization. Responsibilities: • Develop, iterate, and take to production machine learning models to predict sports outcomes and solve problems • Iterate and improve on betting product range to ensure market leading offering • Continuous improvement in pricing techniques - both at an individual level and working with trading teams to optimize predictive and derivative model pricing • Construct models, analyzes and solutions in response to a question or problem posed by a stakeholder or colleague • Manage the data preparation process from collection through cleaning • Build robust predictive models, showing capabilities of feature and model selection • Contribute to a production code environment • Work with decision-makers across the company to understand their goals, identify opportunities to use data to develop new insights and improve business results • Create dashboards and data visualizations for analysis and communication Qualifications: Required: • Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with high proficiency in Python or R, and SQL • Understanding and application of Bayesian statistics • Experience building and using models to help create production level products and tools • Comfortable with command line tools and GitHub • Object-oriented design and coding skills • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ability to work across teams, locations and time zones Preferred: • A minimum of 1 year of Industry Experience in data science, analytics or engineering preferred • Bachelor's Degree in a highly numerate major (Math, Stats, Econ, etc.) or relevant experience in data science preferred • Interest or experience in Sports Gaming and/or Fantasy Sports Company: FanDuel is a gaming company that offers sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, horse racing, and online casino games. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. FanDuel has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

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