Senior Manager Analytics

Acunor is hiring Senior Manager – Sports & Media Analytics for one of its premier clients. This is a Full-time and Onsite opportunity in New York. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply with the most recent resume to [email protected]

Job title: Senior Manager – Sports & Media Analytics

Location: New York

Full-time Opportunity

Job Description

Our Sports Analytics client is seeking a seasoned and motivated data analytics leader, with a deep passion for coaching and growing others, who can effectively partner with both business stakeholders, and technology leaders to deliver easy, effective data products and insightful analytics. Our team concentrates on high-impact, high-value development, and in this role, you’ll be lynchpin in delivering the solutions that help our clients turn data as an asset into business value. If you’re someone who is versatile, methodical, excited by modern technology and enjoys tackling novel and complex business problems in the realm of sports, then this is your sweet spot.

Role and Responsibilities:

•Lead a global high performing team of Data Scientists, Analysts & Engineers that enables data driven decision making through highly scalable & performant modern analytics products

•Engage with client, understand business requirements & suggest best-of-breed data solutions

•Translate business requirements from the client into equivalent analytics tasks

•Oversee the building of data products / ML solutions through all phases of development lifecycle, from research, ideate and design through build, test and implement

•Supervise the use of a broad stack of technologies — Python, AWS, Spark, Databricks and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data

•Ensure thorough quality check of the output and provide tangible insights / recommendation to the client

•Communicate technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

•Establish best practices and governance routines to ensure adherence to model management policies, peer reviews, and compliance to policy standards for privacy, ethics, and bias

•Coach, grow and empower team members

•Collaborate with other analytics leaders to develop annual roadmaps for Sports Decision Science projects and hiring, and translate those into quarterly plans

•Stay informed on the latest advancements in data and technology space especially cloud infra, finding ways to deliver value by applying and customizing these to our specific problem space

Requirement/Competencies:

•Bachelor’s or Master’s (preferred) degree in in a quantitative or technical field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or equivalent.

•8+ years post academic professional experience in in the areas of Strategic Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Science, or Consulting in a sports, media & entertainment environment or in a related field.

•6+ years people management experience leading Data Science & Engineering teams in a direct manager capacity.

•Able to work with minimal instruction and oversight, conduct multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, maintain relationships with senior leaders, and own deliverables end to end.

•Track record of delivering data-driven products, insights, and influencing product and engineering decisions.

•Expertise in scripting languages (such as SQL, Python, etc.) and the tools (such as MS excel, PowerPoint, etc.) required to perform analysis Senior Manager – Sports & Media Analytics New York.

•Strong project management skills, including managing technical resources and multiple priorities & milestones.

•High sense of ownership and results driven.

•Experience using data for storytelling and presenting research findings to technical and non[1]technical audiences.

•Attention to detail, accuracy, and strong problem-solving abilities are crucial.

•Knowledge of ETL/ELT development principles, data warehousing, data lake & lakehouse essentials, data modeling and cloud architecture is a plus.

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