Underdog aims to build the best products in the sports industry by enhancing user experience and retention through personalized recommendations, targeting, and user segmentation.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with recommendation engines, targeting systems, ranking models, or personalization algorithms.
- Strong proficiency in Python for modeling and data manipulation.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience querying large, complex datasets.
- Solid foundation in statistics, hypothesis testing, and experimental design.
- Familiarity with cloud-based tools and platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow).
- Experience with uplift modeling, multi-armed bandits, or causal inference.
- Exposure to real-time personalization pipelines or recommender systems at scale.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with other data scientists to build and iterate on models for personalized recommendations, targeting, and user segmentation.
- Lead personalization initiatives that span modeling, experimentation, and implementation to improve user experience and retention.
- Build and deploy machine learning models such as recommendation systems, targeting algorithms, segmentation, and ranking models.
- Design and analyze A/B tests and other experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of personalization strategies.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Engineering to bring personalization models into production.
- Develop clean, maintainable code and contribute to reusable pipelines, feature stores, and evaluation frameworks.
- Translate data insights into compelling stories and actionable strategies for technical and non-technical audiences.
Other
- A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain. MS degree preferred.
- 2+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or a related technical role.
- Proven ability to partner cross-functionally and influence product decisions with data.
- Prior work in industries such as fantasy sports, sports betting, mobile gaming, or other B2C tech companies.
- This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.
