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Senior Data Scientist - Enterprise

Opendoor

Opendoor

Data Science
Remote · United States
Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2023
About Opendoor
Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move. We believe the traditional real estate process is broken and our goal is simple: build a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple, certain and fast. We have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds to support more than 100,000 homes bought and sold with us and the customers who have selected Opendoor as a trusted partner in handling one of their largest financial transactions. But the work is far from over as we continue to grow in new markets. Transforming the real estate industry takes tenacity and dedication. It takes problem solvers and builders. It takes a tight knit community of teammates doing the best work of their lives, pushing one another to transform a complicated process into a simple one. So where do you fit in? Whether you’re passionate about real estate, people, numbers, words, code, or strategy -- we have a place for you. Real estate is broken. Come help us fix it.

About the Team

Since Opendoor first started operating in 2014, we’ve learned a lot about buying, managing, and selling real estate. The Enterprise business unit with Opendoor aims to share our learnings by offering our technology and processes to institutional single-family-home investment partners. The Enterprise team is building a modern platform for transactions, offering a wide range of services such as brokerage and title.

As the first Senior Data Scientist at Opendoor Enterprise Analytics team, you will work on projects that help the future of our Operations, Product, Engineering Design teams – to drive our business forward with recommendations you uncover through data. You will own analytics and models for one of Opendoor Enterprise’s fulfillment products and partner with stakeholders to help shape its direction. The Senior Data Scientist will contribute individual analytics and modeling work, as well as coaching and up leveling the technical bar of the team.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Build and evolve statistical and machine learning models (e.g. conversion, forecasting, staffing, text mining) that drive business impact
  • Partner with stakeholders across leadership to improve business outcomes by monitoring business health, planning and executing AB and Quasi experiments, and making data-driven recommendations to help Opendoor Enterprise product and platform scale.
  • Provoke trade-offs and prioritize work across a portfolio of potential projects based on impact and scope vs. effort and risk
  • Produce convincing structural, causal and data-driven analyses to falsify ideas or move them forward
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to build long-term learning agendas
  • Clearly and concisely articulate the business impact of your work
  • Work pragmatically at a high cadence to ship modeling and analytical opportunities, such that we generate high learning throughput

Skills Needed:

  • Expertise in statistical inference, study design and machine learning modeling
  • Proficiency in working with complex and fast-evolving data sets
  • 5+ years of industry experience post academia, with advanced degree in a quantitative field
  • Proficiency in numeric programming (Python and/or R) as well as SQL or any other database languages
  • Desire to identify, perform, and automate repetitive work to scale the team
  • System thinking and creativity to solve complex problems by going deep and understand its core drivers
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to influence non-technical audiences with analytical insights and data visualizations

Bonus Points if:

  • Proficiency in a relevant modeling or statistics specialization, such as macroeconomic modeling, optimization or causal inference, data engineering
  • Mentoring: Experience guiding and mentoring other members of the data analytic team
  • Ability to quickly (1-2 weeks) build proofs of concept and identify the highest-leverage areas to iterate efficiently

Location:

Remote roles in the US are available in all states EXCEPT Hawaii, Alaska, Montana, or any US Territories.

Compensation:

The base salary range for this position in Colorado, Connecticut, Washington, and New Jersey is $$164,000 - $253,000 yr., and in California and New York City is $164,000 - $253,000 yr. Base salary may vary depending on relevant experience, skills, geographic location, and business needs. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, 12 paid holidays per year, medical/

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More About Us

To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out our website, to hear about our culture directly from team members visit The Muse and to discover what we are building for our customers read our blog posts.

We Offer the Following Benefits and Perks

• Full medical, dental, and vision with optional 85% coverage for dependents
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave
• Paid time off to volunteer
Please note that these benefits and perks are available only to Full Time team members and do not apply to contract roles.

Opendoor Values Openness

Our team celebrates our diverse backgrounds. We believe that being open about who we are and what we do allows us to be better. Individuals seeking employment at Opendoor are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other protected status under all applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. For California residents: for more information about the categories of personal information that we collect for recruiting purposes, please see our personnel Privacy Policy.