Data Science Manager, Football

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When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are. If you want to challenge conventions in gaming, media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.

About the Role & Team

We are looking for a Data Science Manager to lead a team of data scientists The Data Science team here at Penn is responsible for building models, forecasts, and simulations to help improve theScore Bet and ESPN Bet products. Our team values creativity, collaboration, ingenuity, and ownership. We are looking for someone who is interested in joining a team building and enhancing an industry leading football (NFL / NCAAFB) model for theScore Bet and ESPNBet football product. This position is a rare opportunity enabling a highly motivated candidate to make a significant impact on an enterprise grade football data product.

About the Work

• Help identify and prioritize impactful data science projects as well define goals & objectives for the team.
• Manage and mentor team members as they progress through their career progression journey.
• Own decisions for Data Science project prioritization, roadmap, workflows, tooling, integrations, modeling techniques, algorithm, deliverables, etc.
• Subject Matter Expertise : Be the football subject matter expert for your teamto ensure data-driven solutions are in-line with sport-specific best practices
• Betting Expertise : Knowledge of the sports betting industry and demonstrated experience using football data to solve pricing problems
• Machine learning & statistical modeling : we want to be able to predict the likelihood or expected outcome of various events across different sports.
• Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics : we want to share in-depth knowledge on how our features are working and our forecasts are performing.
• Own relationships & touchpoints with primary stakeholders for each project in flight / on the roadmap & in production.
• Responsible for monitoring stability and accuracy of data science projects in production.
• Interact regularly department leaders; proactively initiate ideas to improve services or products; contribute to department or group objectives, strategy and priorities.
• Partner cross functionally with key executive leaders within the organization to leverage data in new and innovative ways to drive actionable insights and business value.
• Develop best practices for our internal data processes that include model building, modeling techniques, improved latency and readability.
• Design and build new predictive models and optimization routines that have an enterprise level impact. This varies from modeling expected sporting outcomes at an event level to utilizing various game state data to simulate full spectrums of expected outcomes.
• Write and maintain technical design and git / confluence documentation.
• Other duties as required.

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