Senior Data Scientist Enterprise at Opendoor

About the Team
Since Opendoor first started operating in 2014, we’ve learned a lot about buying, managing, and selling real estate. The Enterprise business unit with Opendoor aims to share our learnings by offering our technology and processes to institutional single-family-home investment partners. The Enterprise team is building a modern platform for transactions, offering a wide range of services such as brokerage and title.
As the first Senior Data Scientist at Opendoor Enterprise Analytics team, you will work on projects that help the future of our Operations, Product, Engineering Design teams – to drive our business forward with recommendations you uncover through data. You will own analytics and models for one of Opendoor Enterprise’s fulfillment products and partner with stakeholders to help shape its direction. The Senior Data Scientist will contribute individual analytics and modeling work, as well as coaching and up leveling the technical bar of the team.
Role Responsibilities:

Build and evolve statistical and machine learning models (e.g. conversion, forecasting, staffing, text mining) that drive business impact
Partner with stakeholders across leadership to improve business outcomes by monitoring business health, planning and executing AB and Quasi experiments, and making data-driven recommendations to help Opendoor Enterprise product and platform scale.
Provoke trade-offs and prioritize work across a portfolio of potential projects based on impact and scope vs. effort and risk
Produce convincing structural, causal and data-driven analyses to falsify ideas or move them forward
Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to build long-term learning agendas
Clearly and concisely articulate the business impact of your work
Work pragmatically at a high cadence to ship modeling and analytical opportunities, such that we generate high learning throughput

Skills Needed:

Expertise in statistical inference, study design and machine learning modeling
Proficiency in working with complex and fast-evolving data sets
5+ years of industry experience post academia, with advanced degree in a quantitative field
Proficiency in numeric programming (Python and/or R) as well as SQL or any other database languages
Desire to identify, perform, and automate repetitive work to scale the team
System thinking and creativity to solve complex problems by going deep and understand its core drivers

Strong written and verbal communication skills to influence non-technical audiences with analytical insights and data visualizations 

Bonus Points if:

Proficiency in a relevant modeling or statistics specialization, such as macroeconomic modeling, optimization or causal inference, data engineering
Mentoring: Experience guiding and mentoring other members of the data analytic team
Ability to quickly (1-2 weeks) build proofs of concept and identify the highest-leverage areas to iterate efficiently

Location:
Remote roles in the US are available in all states EXCEPT Hawaii, Alaska, Montana, or any US Territories. 
Compensation:
The base salary range for this position in Colorado, Connecticut, Washington, and New Jersey is $$164,000 - $253,000 yr., and in California and New York City is $164,000 - $253,000 yr. Base salary may vary depending on relevant experience, skills, geographic location, and business needs. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, 12 paid holidays per year, medical/
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More About Us
To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out our website, to hear about our culture directly from team members visit The Muse and to discover what we are building for our customers read our blog posts.
 
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.