Senior Data Scientist, SEO

Senior Data Scientist, SEO at Realtor.com (View all jobs) 

Location: Austin, TX 

Come to work for Realtor.com![ A leader in online real estate and backed by industry experience and the News Corp Brand, Realtor.com 

Realtor.com currently has an opportunity for a Sr. Data Scientist, Product Analytics, reporting to the Director of Consumer Product Analytics. Realtor.com is in the middle of aggressive strategic growth driven by newly integrated entities, and continuing our record growth and consumer engagement will be critical to Realtor.com’s strategic success in the industry. Specifically, this role’s core responsibilities will focus on partnering directly with the major functions of the business to drive consumer engagement, conversion, and overall optimization of the consumer’s journey for our emerging product and service areas. There is a tremendous opportunity to make a huge impact in a short amount of time! 

The role is central to Realtor.com’s long-term strategic growth and will liaise with leadership across the major functions of the business on a real-time basis including, most notably, Product, Design, and Engineering within the Core product organization. This product is focused on aiding consumers with their home search, connecting them to the right agents/brokers, and educating buyers on the path to home ownership. 

An ideal candidate will have a background driving value through analysis of a combination of web analytics, product, and product functions as well as expertise/understanding grounded in long-term strategic business planning and the ability to influence executives and representatives from across the organization to achieve results in a disciplined manner. Specifically, the candidate should have familiarity or expertise in digital consumer/search businesses, consumer funnel optimization, consumer analytics/segmentation, and experimentation. Experience within real estate tech, B2B/sales analytics, consumer search, and/or marketplaces is a big plus. 

General responsibilities include decision support, AB testing analytics support, product development opportunity sizing, consumer behavior analysis, and performance management of Realtor.com‘s consumer internet business lines.

What you’ll do:

• Support the Product team in accomplishing the goals and objectives of the Consumer internet businesses.
• 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 accountability.
• Deliver high-quality data-driven business analyses that address business issues with effective solutions, and provide key insights leading to actionable recommendations.
• 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.
• Develop product learning agendas, design multivariate tests, and synthesize analytical results into practical recommendations that inform key business decisions.
• Partner with the engineering and business intelligence teams to drive improvements to tracking and data quality.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses to understand product performance, conduct complex initiatives that address key strategic questions, and drive assorted ad hoc projects. 
• Inform OKR development with product leadership.

How we work

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. You would be the face of talent development on-site in our office. 

What you’ll bring:

• Educational Requirements: BA/BS with an undergraduate focus in Analytics, Finance, Statistics, Applied Math, Data Science, Economics, or a related field. Masters a plus. Differentiator: experience within real estate tech, consumer search, and/or two-sided marketplaces. 
• 5+ years’ experience with increasing levels of responsibility; online media/consumer audience-oriented / consumer internet experience a plus. 
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in digital tools including Omniture and Google Analytics preferred; SQL experience required. 
• Solid understanding of experimentation/AB testing fundamentals. 
• Proven track record of translating business problems into analytical frameworks and developing analytical plans for answering complex problems and delivering analytic insights.
• Experience interfacing with technical resources with broad, multi-disciplinary expertise.
• Experience applying advanced analytical disciplines to financial, consumer audience/user experience, and/or product-level modeling, forecasting, regression, time series, etc.
• Business partnering and influencing skills. 
• Superior presentation and communication skills; mature presence coupled with emotional intelligence.
• Ability to interact and communicate with individuals in various functional areas and various levels of management including top-level executives.
• Ability to remain flexible and thrive in a fast-paced and often hectic environment. Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations, and provide data-driven clarity to less technical audiences.