The Role:

We are seeking an experienced senior data scientist with a passion for extracting meaning from data and a relentless focus on execution. You will join our Data Science team within the larger Product & Technology division and will work closely with Product, Engineering, BI/Reporting, and Operations teams.

As a member of our small but mighty data science team, you will play an integral role in delivering high-impact data products and insights as well as influence the overall vision and strategy of data science within Sotheby’s. 

Responsibilities:

• Solve product or business problems using analytics, experimentation, and machine-learning
• Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis
• Implement models in production in collaboration with developers and data engineering
• Own the process of gathering, extracting, compiling, and cleaning data as needed to execute and deliver on data products
• Communicate and present findings and insights to relevant stakeholders and leadership
• Keep current with technical and industry developments
• Work effectively in a dynamic, delivery-oriented environment with concurrent projects

Ideal Experience & Competencies:

• 3+ years of proven experience as a data scientist 
• Strong knowledge of statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing, statistical inference, regression), predictive modeling, machine-learning, data wrangling
• Proficiency with at least one scripting language (ex. Python) and one data visualization tools (ex. Matplotlib, Tableau)
• Excellent ability to communicate complicated and nuanced insights in an accessible language to relevant stakeholders
• Problem-solving aptitude and business sense
• Natural curiosity and creative mind