Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teamworks is the Operating System for Sports™, powering over 6,500 organizations worldwide. They are seeking a Data Scientist II to build metrics, models, and analyses using proprietary tracking and pose data for elite sports organizations, focusing on both basketball and hockey analytics.
Responsibilities
- Build and transform new data sources into tables, features, and structures that are easy for the team and our clients to build on
- Develop, extend, and validate models — including event-probability models and athleticism models — ensuring data representation supports both current and future use cases
- Build metrics and analyses that NHL and NBA clients rely on to make decisions, and support client-facing work by digging into the data to answer their questions directly
- Extract meaningful features from high-dimensional tracking and pose data, and update existing models to incorporate new signals as they become available
- Validate models and outputs — your own and others' — with enough rigor that the team can trust what ships
- Write clear reports that communicate technical work to the product team and broader organization
Skills
- 3+ years of experience working with sports tracking data including the kinds of models typically built and the data challenges that come with them
- Strong data science fundamentals: you understand how models work, what they need from the data, and how to set data up to support them
- Proficiency in Python or R, with solid statistical foundations and comfort with SQL for building and querying structured data
- Attention to detail in how data is structured and represented, with an eye for edge cases, consistency, and how downstream users will interact with what you build
- A team-first mentality — both teams are small, and being someone others can rely on matters as much as technical skill
- For Hockey: direct experience with hockey data or hockey analytics (inside a team, public work, or academically), and familiarity with pose or skeleton data or other high-dimensional spatiotemporal data sources
- For Basketball: experience working inside an NBA front office or comparable environment, familiarity with deep learning methods, and public-facing basketball analytics work that demonstrates how you think about the game
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
Company Overview
Teamworks is an operating system for sports that supports talent acquisition, seamless operations, and holistic performance development. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.teamworks.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Teamworks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.