PENN Entertainment is looking for a Data Science Manager to lead a team of data scientists in building models, forecasts, and simulations to improve theScore Bet and ESPN Bet products, specifically focusing on enhancing an industry-leading football model.
Requirements
- Expert-level skills in solving quantitative problems with NFL and/or NCAAFB data & using sports data to solve pricing problems.
- A deep understanding of utilizing sport-specific problem-solving techniques to model various elements of the game.
- A deep understanding of utilizing player and ball tracking data and enriched NFL and/or NCAAFB play-by-play data to solve football problems and how to utilize model predictions to augment various forecasts.
- Knowledge of best practices in dynamically projecting various aspects of player and team performance.
- Strong grasp on the fundamentals of simulation modeling and latency reduction techniques.
- Strong experience with traditional DS tools and frameworks such as SQL, Pandas, Numpy, SKLearn etc.
- Experience with any of Docker, Kubernetes with Terraform, Cloudwatch.
Responsibilities
- Help identify and prioritize impactful data science projects as well define goals & objectives for the team.
- Own decisions for Data Science project prioritization, roadmap, workflows, tooling, integrations, modeling techniques, algorithm, deliverables, etc.
- Machine learning & statistical modeling: we want to be able to predict the likelihood or expected outcome of various events across different sports.
- Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics: we want to share in-depth knowledge on how our features are working and our forecasts are performing.
- Responsible for monitoring stability and accuracy of data science projects in production.
- Develop best practices for our internal data processes that include model building, modeling techniques, improved latency and readability.
- Design and build new predictive models and optimization routines that have an enterprise level impact. This varies from modeling expected sporting outcomes at an event level to utilizing various game state data to simulate full spectrums of expected outcomes.
Other
- Manage and mentor team members as they progress through their career progression journey.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Be the football subject matter expert for your teamto ensure data-driven solutions are in-line with sport-specific best practices
- Betting Expertise: Knowledge of the sports betting industry and demonstrated experience using football data to solve pricing problems
- Own relationships & touchpoints with primary stakeholders for each project in flight / on the roadmap & in production.
- Interact regularly department leaders; proactively initiate ideas to improve services or products; contribute to department or group objectives, strategy and priorities.
