OfferUp is looking for an experienced and visionary Data Science Manager to lead and scale their high-impact Data Science team. The goal is to build intelligent systems that power their marketplace, advance data science maturity, drive innovation in core ML capabilities, and enable trustworthy, scalable solutions that shape how millions of users transact safely and efficiently.
Requirements
- 8+ years of demonstrated experience with machine learning or data science, 5+ years managing a team
- Expertise with modeling in Python, and data manipulation in SQL
- Hands-on experience in predictive modeling and analyzes to solve real business problems
- Strong analysis, problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm development background
- Experience in the Trust & Safety, Risk domains, Search, Advertising or Experimentation
- Knowledge of the following: entity extraction, semantics in text, image recognition, recommender systems, ranking, LDA, classification
Responsibilities
- Serve as an analytics advisor to solve business problems using data.
- Partner with product, engineering, and design leaders to influence the roadmap with data-driven insights and ML strategy.
- Translate ambiguous business challenges into ML-driven solutions, from exploration to production deployment.
- Work with the executive team and business partners to define product requirements, provide analytical support, and create models to enhance the safety of our customers.
- Identify opportunities and execute results across the company in product search, personalization recommender, crime risk modeling, user reputation, etc.
- Contribute to the development of end-to-end experimentation-forward product improvements from conception/research, to offline testing, then live A/B testing and finally shipping to production.
- Leverage the latest machine learning technologies to solve complex business problems.
Other
- Develop and grow the data scientists on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field
