About Us:
PrizePicks is the largest independently owned Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) platform in North America. Centered around real-money more/less predictions, PrizePicks allows sports fans to play against the numbers rather than each other, and it is the simplest variety of daily fantasy sports with the widest breadth of sports coverage of any DFS operator. Boasting partnerships to date with the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Braves, and Miami Marlins, as well as Ghost Gaming, PrizePicks is currently the closest legal alternative to legal mobile sports betting in the majority of the United States. With an existing digital footprint covering more than 70 percent of the U.S. population, PrizePicks is the most accessible type of game for the masses. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, remote is an option for the immediacy of this position.

If you would like to view our product, it can be found on the App Store and Google Play, as well as on the web at prizepicks.com.

Job Description:
The Analytics Team is responsible for building and maintaining analytics tools and workflows to support the PrizePicks business across all departments - at the core of these operations is data and the insights driven from that data. PrizePicks is looking for a Data Scientist with 1-2 years of experience to join our Data Science team. You will be working closely with other data scientists, reporting analysts, and cross departmental directors to test business flows, make business recommendations, and provide novel business insights to leadership focused on driving revenue growth, optimizing marketing efficiency and optimizing retention efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data cleaning operations, wrangling and visualizations.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience
• Advanced knowledge of machine learning, data analysis and statistical modeling
• Proficiency in statistics and statistical software applications, such as Python or R
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Data visualization and report building experience using Tableau is a plus
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills

How You’ll Ramp:

• 30 Days:
  Comfortable with the data science tech stack & common business use cases
• 60 Days:
  Driving internal conversations on current projects and working with the DS team to optimize existing forecasting infrastructure
• 90 Days:
  Able to take unstructured stakeholder forecasting requests and define, scope and execute on them

Want to Learn More?

• PrizePicks agrees DFS partnership with Atlanta Falcons (SBC Americas)
• PrizePicks Continues to Post Record Months to Begin 2021, Expands Leadership Team With an Eye Toward Category Growth (Yahoo Finance)
• PrizePicks Stacks Its Chips for the Future, Closes Round of Strategic Investors (AP News)
• CSL Esports joins forces with PrizePicks (Esports Insider)

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. PrizePicks reserves the right to change duties, responsibilities and activities at any time with or without notice. PrizePicks is an equal opportunity employer.

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