Senior/Lead Data Scientist, Sleeper
$200-250k
Fantasy sports app
Job no longer available
Fantasy sports app
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$200-250k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect people over sports.
Role
Who you are
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional experience in data science, ETL processes, and data warehousing
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and other data manipulation languages
- Strong understanding of data warehousing technologies like Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery
Desirable
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written
- Expertise in machine learning algorithms and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
What the job involves
- The Senior Data Scientist will play a crucial role in building, maintaining, and enhancing ETL processes that drive our analytics and machine learning platforms
- This individual will be responsible for developing actionable insights from complex data sets, and work closely with various business units to inform strategy and decision-making
- Design and implement ETL pipelines for a diverse range of data sources
- Generate clear and insightful data visualizations and statistical reports to aid business decision-making
- Work with business stakeholders to identify crucial metrics and KPIs, and provide actionable insights
- Continually review and optimize methodologies and best practices for data extraction and analysis
Our take
The popularity of being able to create fantasy teams and enjoy watching sports virtually has taken socialising around sports to a virtual level. In fact, the fantasy sports market size is expected to reach $48.6 billion by 2027. Sleeper was initially an app on which users discussed fantasy sports, but in 2017, it began hosting free fantasy football leagues, competing with sites like Yahoo. Integrating social media and sports, the company is now known to be one of the best DFS communities to hang out on.
Through substantial funding, Sleeper is expanding the game offerings on its platform and in 2022, release a new feature called Wallet that enables users to sync their preferred payment methods to the platform.
There has been consistent growth for the platform since its founding and it has successfully attracted a loyal user base.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$40m
SERIES C
May 2020
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $67.3m
Company benefits
- 401k and health insurance
- Unlimited Vacations
- Regular virtual game-time with the team with company-sponsored snacks
- Company-sponsored fantasy leagues with real prizes
- Team outing every quarter and company retreat once a year
Company HQ
Paradise, NV
Leadership
Nan Wang
(Co-Founder & CEO)After studying went on to become a Senior Analyst at Fidelity Investments, Representative for China Investment Corporation and Private Equity Investor at Neuberger Berman.
Henry Leung
(Co-Founder)Worked as an Android Developer at Vevo, Senior iOS Developer at Dwell Media and Lead Mobile Engineer at Whil Concepts.
Ken Wang
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a NET Web Engineer at Genex/O’Grady Meyers, Senior C# Engineer at Decore-ative Specialties and UI Engineering Tech Lead (TV/Console Platform) at Vevo.
Weixi Yen
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Software Engineer at Kabam and then went on to work through several roles at Storm8, most recently as an Engineering Manager.
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