Decision Scientist

Decision Scientist

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Data

Industry: Communications

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard

Hours:

Open

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Date Posted: 09/17/2026

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Description:

Remote

Our client seeks a Decision Scientist to develop and operationalize forecasting, statistical, econometric, and machine learning solutions that support audience, viewership, advertising, and revenue management decisions. The role includes building production-ready models and data pipelines, partnering with stakeholders to translate analytical needs into scalable solutions, and presenting findings to business leaders.

Rate: $55.00 to $61.88/hr. w2

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• Develop and maintain forecasting, statistical, econometric, and machine learning models.

• Analyze audience, viewership, advertising impressions, and demographic performance data.

• Support revenue management, pricing, and business decision-making initiatives across businesses.

• Build, deploy, and maintain production-ready data science solutions.

• Create and support automated data pipelines and model deployment processes.

• Partner with stakeholders to translate analytical needs into scalable solutions.

• Present findings and recommendations to business leaders and clients.

• Advanced expertise in statistics, forecasting, econometrics, and machine learning.

• Strong programming experience with Python and SQL.

• Experience with production data pipelines, cloud environments, CI/CD, Docker, Git Hub and/or Git Lab, and relational databases.

• Expertise in one or more of: time series forecasting, Bayesian statistics, generalized linear models, econometric modeling, machine learning algorithms, optimization, and simulation.

• Preferred:
  PhD, Snowflake, media or entertainment industry experience, audience or viewership forecasting, advertising and impressions analytics, revenue management and pricing analytics, linear TV or streaming analytics.

• Master's or PhD in Statistics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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