What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager - Data Science Engineering position at PrizePicks?
At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 450 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together?
The PrizePicks Analytics Team is responsible for building and maintaining analytical tools and products to support the PrizePicks business across all departments - at the core of these operations is data. As Engineering Manager - Data Science Engineering , you will lead a team to develop, test, maintain, and evolve initiatives in streaming data, productionized algorithms, and MLOps infrastructure to mature PrizePicks' digital offering.
What you'll do :
- Lead a team to create and maintain sport and user data stream architecture, ensuring data reliability in both speed and quality for both raw and transformed data pipelines.
- Collaborate with our Data Science team to determine the best paths for operationalizing DS / ML assets, ensuring model output quality, stability, and scalability.
- Steer the design, implementation, and deployment of the data, MLOps, and API stack required for real-time pricing models, personalization / recommendations, risk management tooling, and other critical functions by contributing to architecture evaluations and decisions for the evolving data product roadmap.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, QA, and Product teams to enable the creation and distribution of highly visible and real-time data products to the PrizePicks platform.
- Empower teams to build and own rigorous monitoring and alerting services, and work with Engineering and DevOps teams to ensure stability and complete uptime of our production services.
- Solidify and disseminate information and ideas through rigorous documentation, roadmaps, and knowledge transfer processes both within and across teams.
- Act as a thought leader in the broader PrizePicks technology org, staying abreast of and implementing novel technologies, and stewarding best practices both upward and downward within your direct team and to other people leaders / collaborators alike.
What you have :
3 years in a people leadership role, managing and growing a team of Associate through Staff level Data Science Engineers / Machine Learning Engineers / ML-focused Software Engineers.
Experience with simulation frameworks, personalization, and / or near real-time consumer-facing machine learning implementations.
Scripting languages : Python, SQL.
A passion for daily fantasy sports and an understanding of the users, data, and competitive landscape.
Purposeful people growth, mentorship experience, and coaching perspective.
What makes you stand out :
Where you'll live :
Benefits you'll receive :
In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks :
You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
