Data Scientist

THE POSITION

We are looking for a Data Scientist for our Sports Modeling & Innovation team to tackle our most challenging sports modeling problems. Throughout the lifecycle of a model, from data collection through results, you will create predictive models of sports to build tools and dashboards, price markets, and drive actionable insights across Fan Duel Group. You will be working closely with the product, risk and trading teams, modeling player performance, team performance, and game outcomes among other challenges.

You will promote effective communication of model outputs and contribute to a collaborative code environment.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

• Develop, iterate, and take to production machine learning models to predict sports outcomes and solve problems
• Iterate and improve on betting product range to ensure market leading offering
• Continuous improvement in pricing techniques - both at an individual level and working with trading teams to optimize predictive and derivative model pricing
• Construct models, analyze and solutions in response to a question or problem posed by a stakeholder or colleague
• Manage the data preparation process from collection through cleaning
• Build robust predictive models, showing capabilities of feature and model selection
• Contribute to a production code environment
• Work with decision-makers across the company to understand their goals, identify opportunities to use data to develop new insights and improve business results
• Create dashboards and data visualizations for analysis and communication

• A minimum of 1 year of Industry Experience in data science, analytics or engineering preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree in a highly numerate major (Math, Stats, Econ, etc.) or relevant experience in data science preferred
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with high proficiency in Python or R, and SQL
• Understanding and application of Bayesian statistics
• Experience building and using models to help create production level products and tools
• Comfortable with command line tools and Git Hub
• Object-oriented design and coding skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work across teams, locations and time zones
• Interest or experience in Sports Gaming and/or Fantasy Sports

Fan Duel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. Fan Duel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including:
America’s #1 Sports book, Fan Duel Sports book; its leading iGaming platform, Fan Duel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, Fan Duel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition, Fan Duel Group operates Fan Duel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and Fan Duel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. Fan Duel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

Fan Duel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world’s largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and more.

Fan Duel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are…