Senior Data Scientist

Realtor.com is currently seeking a Senior Data Scientist who will report to the Director of Product Analytics and support consumer product analytics spanning from traffic and engagement to lead generation. This role is crucial to our strategic growth as we integrate new entities and continue our record-breaking growth in consumer engagement. The success of Realtor.com in the industry relies heavily on tailoring the consumer experience, making this role instrumental to our strategic success.

The primary responsibilities of this role will involve collaborating closely with key business functions to drive consumer engagement, conversion, and optimize the consumer journey within our consumer organization. This will be achieved by leading efforts to improve clickstream tracking quality and conducting advanced deep-dive analysis to gain a better understanding and measure changes in consumer behavior. This presents an exceptional opportunity to make a significant impact in a short period. There is a tremendous opportunity to make a significant impact in a short amount of time!

This role will play a central role in Realtor.com's long-term strategic growth and will work closely with leadership across key business functions, including Product, Design, and Engineering. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of driving value through web analytics/event tracking, analyzing complex datasets, providing valuable insights, and enabling data-driven decision-making throughout the organization. Their expertise in data science techniques and advanced analytics will be crucial in extracting meaningful information from large datasets. Additionally, we are seeking a candidate with the ability to influence executives and stakeholders across the organization to achieve results in a disciplined manner.

Key areas of familiarity or expertise for the ideal candidate include clickstream tracking, consumer funnel optimization, consumer analytics/segmentation, and experimentation (A/B testing). The general responsibilities of the role include developing tracking plans for engagement, conducting A/B testing analytics, identifying product development opportunities, analyzing consumer behavior, conducting pre-post analysis, and accurately measuring and reporting performance metrics within Realtor.com's consumer internet business lines. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of Realtor.com by leveraging your data science skills and driving impactful insights.

What you'll do:

• Support the Product team in accomplishing the goals and objectives of the Consumer internet businesses.
• Partner with the engineering and business intelligence teams to drive improvements to track and data quality.
• Conduct deep-dive analysis of complex datasets to understand product performance using statistical techniques, machine learning algorithms, and data visualization tools.
• Identify patterns, trends, and correlations in data to uncover actionable insights and provide recommendations for business improvement.
• Develop and monitor KPIs to drive high-level oversight of business initiatives and company health, and develop regular insights from the data to enable performance management and facilitate accountabilities
• Communicate findings and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through clear and compelling visualizations, reports, and presentations.
• Partner with the Product organization on data-driven decision-making, idea generation, and rigorous measurement.
• Lead exploratory analysis to identify and size product development opportunities to determine tradeoffs between product features that grow and optimize the product offering
• Guide and inform OKR development with product leadership.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree with focus in Analytics, Product Marketing, Statistics, Applied Math, Data Science, Economics or a related field.
• 5+ years' experience as a Data Analyst or similar role, with a focus on web analytics or data science
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills; Experience with Product Analytics a plus.
• Solid understanding of SQL and experience working with relational databases.
• Experience in digital tools, including Omniture and Google Analytics and data visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker or Power BI
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or R for data analysis and modeling.
• Proven track record of translating business problems into an analytical framework, developing plans for answering complex problems, and delivering analytic insights.
• Experience applying advanced analytic disciplines to financial, consumer audience/user experience, and product-level modeling, forecasting, marketing, etc.
• Experience with design and execute A/B testing experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies and interventions,analyzing the results to provide actionable insights and recommendations
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to remain flexible and thrive in a fast-paced and often hectic environment

How we work: We balance accelerated creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration and flexibility, from inside and outside of our office walls. For most roles, our employees work three days of their choice in our offices and the remaining two days from home.

Additional locations for this role: Westlake Village, CA

At Realtor, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.

The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect in the listed locations. We tailor our offers based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, location and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process. All ranges are location based, ranges for positions in other locations may vary based on the local market.

Salary Range for select office locations

• Santa Clara $135,100 to $196,100
• Westlake Village $135,100 to $196,100

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target typically expressed as percentage of salary. Similarly to salary, annual incentive bonus targets are set based on a variety of factors including job level, competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills.

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.