Senior Data Scientist Experimentation Lead at Opendoor

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
As the Experimentation Lead Data Scientist at Opendoor, you will collaborate with the rest of our Data Science & Analytics organization to drive more and better learnings across our key business areas. You’ll partner with Engineering, Product, Design, and Operations leaders to identify key questions fundamental to the growth and health of each domain area, and help them craft scientific yet pragmatic learning agendas. You’ll lead data scientists and analysts to continuously improve our methodology, process, and culture to effectively execute experiments and meet growing experimentation demand from cross-functional teams.


Role Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of the landscape of causal learning at Opendoor
Partner with cross-functional business owners to identify key questions and opportunities, and construct pragmatic agendas to guide hypothesis-based learning strategies to answer these questions
Collaborate with other data scientists, data analysts, and software/data engineers to improve the processes, knowledge, and tools to support growing business demand for high-quality experimentation planning and execution
Make recommendations on how to grow Opendoor as a learning organization to executive leadership
Become an expert in experimentation practices across online and offline environments, especially in the real estate technology domain



Skills Needed

Expertise in statistical inference and experiment design and analysis
Strong product and business sense to dive deep into new domains and identify patterns and opportunities
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills to influence non-technical audiences and collaborate with technical teammates
Comfort with ambiguity and driving impact in a fast-paced environment
5+ years of industry experience with an advanced degree in a quantitative field
Proficiency in SQL or any other relational database languages and numeric programming in Python, R, or other languages



Bonus points if

Hands-on experience building internal experimentation platforms or customizing commercial experimentation tools for business-specific use cases
Quasi-experimental design and causal inference analysis in situations where data sizes are limited or controlled experiment isn’t feasible



More About Us:

Want to learn more about us and how we are revolutionizing the home buying and selling process? Learn more about us on our website, check out our profile on The Muse to learn more about our culture from our team members, or read our blog posts to hear about the work we are doing.


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.