About Fanduel

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE POSITION

Our roster has an opening with your name on it

We are looking for a Data Scientist for our Sports Modeling & Innovation team to tackle our most challenging sports modeling problems. Throughout the lifecycle of a model, from data collection through results, you will create predictive models of sports to build tools and dashboards, price markets, and drive actionable insights across FanDuel Group. You will be working closely with the product and risk and trading teams, modeling player performance, team performance, and game outcomes among other challenges You will promote effective communication of model outputs and contribute to a collaborative code environment.

THE GAME PLAN

Everyone on our team has a part to play

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

THE STATS

What we're looking for in our next teammate

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
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
Interest or experience in Sports Gaming and/or Fantasy Sports

Player Benefits

We treat our team right

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits , pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location, role, and level.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or another other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.

The applicable salary range for this position is $102,000 - $140,800 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

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