Director, Data Science
About REX
REX is a well-funded, game-changing real estate technology startup with offices in Austin, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area. With the goal of improving the lives of homebuyers and sellers, REX created a digital platform and real estate service that eliminates traditional agent commissions and shifts control away from agents over to those who matter most: consumers! REX saves homesellers thousands of dollars in fees by going around the MLS to target home-buyers directly with sophisticated marketing that has never been used in real estate. Since its launch in Southern California, REX has expanded to 17 states and over 250 employees. Throughout the years, REX has represented homes cumulatively valued at over $1 billion and in the process, saved customers over $20 million in fees they otherwise would have paid traditional brokers.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Set a vision and strategy that is focused on customer value, owning the overall analytic output of REX’s Data Science teams
- Recruit and grow a talented team of Data Scientists and Data Science Managers
- Build out a data science plan that allows various business units to leverage ML to create sustained value to revenue, customer experience and operations
- Act as part research leader and part engineering leader to drive execution
- Interface with data engineering teams to integrate data collection, data quality and core model output into production systems
- Integrate deeply with VP and C-level business leadership as a trusted and influential contributor to data-driven decision making, ensuring maximum impact of Data Science outputs
- Lay out the process of model selection, accuracy and efficiency
- Guide and evangelize development of product and technologies that accelerate iterative, rapid experimentation processes including feature engineering and data sharing across analytics teams
- Support and showcase a long-term research agenda aimed at generating innovations to solve critical business needs and technical challenges
- Evolve agile/iterative development process to drive timely Data Science outcomes and reinforce the test-and-learn culture
- Present our learnings and output at conferences, and engage the team in external activities that help elevate REX's Data Science brand
What You Need:
- PhD/MS in computer science, machine learning, statistics, applied mathematics, physics, or other scientific or computational disciplines
- Proven expertise developing algorithms for solving diverse business challenges and creating significant dollar value
- Exceptional leadership skills and experience in building and maintaining a high performing, customer-focused, and fun team-culture
- An inclusive and hands-on servant-leadership and collaborative style aimed at developing and motivating a team of data scientists
- Skill at building relationships across the organization and becoming a trusted, sought-after partner
- Strong coaching skills and long-term career guidance for managers
- Talent in analytical storytelling with exceptional ability to convey complex analytical results to business stakeholders in relevant and accessible language
- A strong passion and evangelism for data science, coupled with deep desire to adapt machine learning technologies to enable extremely effective solutions to REX's most challenging data analysis problems
- 15+ years’ experience building, managing, mentoring, and inspiring teams, with a proven track record of leveraging data to drive business results
- Strong background working with large-scale data in distributed computing environments, including databases, data cleaning, and feature engineering
- Experience with Agile/iterative process in the context of research and analytics
- Relentless focus on execution with demonstrated ability to get things done