[Hiring] Basketball Data Scientist @Jazz Basketball Investors LLC
Basketball Data Scientist @Jazz Basketball Investors LLC
Data and Analytics
Salary unspecified
Remote Location
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA Only
Employment Type full-time
Posted 1mth ago

[Hiring] Basketball Data Scientist @Jazz Basketball Investors LLC

1mth ago - Jazz Basketball Investors LLC is hiring a remote Basketball Data Scientist. πŸ’Έ Salary: unspecified πŸ“Location: USA

Role Description

The Utah Jazz are looking for a Data Scientist to perform modeling and analysis that will help inform basketball decision-making. We are located in Salt Lake City, but are open to remote candidates (must be legally authorized to work in the United States).

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain models to better predict basketball outcomes and facilitate better decision-making across Basketball Operations.
  • Perform ad hoc data analysis as necessary to help basketball decision-makers.
  • Interface with all departments within Basketball Operations (scouting, coaching, analytics, sports science) and strive to understand and meet their needs.
  • Identify, research, and implement opportunities for new models, data sources, and basketball analytics techniques.
  • Help maintain and test datasets used to perform analysis.
  • Maintain best practices for software development including test writing, documentation, and adherence to and improvement of coding standards.
  • Protect the reputation of the company.
  • Exemplify the Utah Jazz mission and values: transparent, all in, community obsessed, one team, and scrappy.
  • Accept other duties, as assigned.

Competencies

  • Communicates Effectively – Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
  • Demonstrates Self-awareness – Uses a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in Statistics, Data Science, Math or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience analyzing data and training statistical models in a production environment using Python or R.
  • 2+ years of experience with basketball data and the latest basketball analytics techniques.
  • 2+ years of experience with data visualization.
  • Expertise in statistics fundamentals and state-of-the-art predictive modeling techniques.
  • A desire to work in a startup-like environment where you will be empowered to make design decisions.
  • A track record of writing clean and well-documented code.
  • Enthusiasm for basketball.
  • Nice to have experience with MLOps.
  • Nice to have experience with SQL.
  • Nice to have experience with data engineering.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Physical Demands

  • This person must be able to communicate and express themselves both written and verbally.
  • This person must be able to observe, inspect, estimate, and assess.
  • This person must be able to sit for long periods of time.
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Basketball Data Scientist @Jazz Basketball Investors LLC
Data and Analytics
Salary unspecified
Remote Location
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA Only
Employment Type full-time
Posted 1mth ago
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