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Lead Data Scientist

Employer
The Washington Post
Location
Washington, DC
Closing date
Jul 29, 2022

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Industry
Science
Function
IT
Hours
Full Time
Career Level
Experienced (Non-Manager)

Job Details

Job Description

The Washington Post Personalization team is looking for a Lead Data Scientist who is excited to create forward-thinking solutions for the next generation of journalism. Our team is at the heart of the Post's machine learning strategies to build intelligent and adaptable personalized news experiences and business solutions capable of powering the most high-scale websites in the world. As the Lead Data Scientist, you will anticipate data and science-related bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus scientific and technical constraints. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence are essential to success in this role.

Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with cross-functional agile teams of data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, and others to build machine learning infrastructure that best supports The Post's ML needs.
  • Identify, scope, design and deliver ML feature pipelines.
  • Apply machine learning technologies to build statistical models with large amounts of data and analyze that data to derive valuable insights and inform feature and product development.
  • Drive and document best practices in ML systems and data engineering.
  • Optimize pipelines and processes for model development, experimentation, and scaled production scoring.
  • Deploy ML models under the constraints of scalability, correctness, and maintainability.
  • Monitor and ensure the quality of machine learning solutions by implementing process and control disciplines as well as tooling to govern.
  • Partner with stakeholders across the organization to identify business needs and align our data products with business goals.
  • Actively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, scientific, and technical goals
  • Partner with research stakeholders to create, maintain, and prioritize the hypothesis and experimentation backlog.
  • Mentor and train lower-level data scientists and machine learning engineers.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
  • 8+ years of machine learning and data science experience
  • 5+ years professional experience with Python
  • Strong problem-solving ability and a knack for statistical analysis.


Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ years' experience with AWS
  • 5+ years' experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning
  • Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance or related field


The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed.

The innovation doesn't end in the Newsroom - dozens of teams power The Washington Post. We are now hiring the next innovator - how will you Impact Tomorrow?

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Company

Thank you for your interest in a career with The Washington Post. We invite you to review all of our open positions to find the one that's right for you. We look forward to receiving your resume!


Since it first began publication more than 130 years ago, The Washington Post has grown into one of the most storied and respected news organizations in the world. A subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, today's Post is the indispensable guide to Washington. In print, we enjoy the highest penetration of any major metropolitan newspaper in the United States. On the web, we have the third largest news website with 17 million unique visitors each month, and have recently launched a celebrated news app for the iPad. We serve Washington in all media, on any platform, including paid products, events, and tailored content.

More broadly, The Washington Post Company delivers quality products to today's students, readers and viewers. What unites our company is the immediacy of our products and services, created by teachers and tutors at Kaplan; reporters and editors at our media properties; and associates at Cable ONE.
Washington Post Media views its employees as its most valuable asset and provides a comprehensive benefits package to promote healthy and balanced lives at work and at home. We offer competitive salaries, opportunities for training and career advancement and an outstanding, progressive benefits package including:
Health and dental benefits
Flexible healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
401(k) and company-funded cash balance plan
Life and disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Adoption assistance
Domestic partner benefits
Employee assistance program
Employee referral program
 

Company info
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Location
1301 K Street, N.W.
Washington
DC
20036
US

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