Data Science Manager - Remote

Overview

OfferUp is looking for an experienced and visionary Data Science Manager to lead and scale our high-impact Data Science team. You’ll work at the intersection of product, engineering, and business strategy to build intelligent systems that power our marketplace. As a leader, you’ll be responsible for advancing our data science maturity, driving innovation in core ML capabilities, and enabling trustworthy, scalable solutions that shape how millions of users transact safely and efficiently.

In Short

• 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.
• Develop and grow the data scientists on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication.

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.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field.
• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
• Equity in OfferUp as part of compensation.
• Health insurance and healthcare savings/spending accounts.
• Retirement savings benefits (401(k) plan with match).
• Flexible vacation policy with 3-5 weeks of vacation time.
• 12 days of sick time per year.