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Director/Lead of Data Engineering
GrubHub
Chicago, IL, United States
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About The Opportunity
As the Director/Lead of Data Engineering, you will identify and formalize problems predicting user behavior. Then create and implement your models to find solutions. Be innovative, be creative, use every bit of that key commodity – data. We process millions of transactions every day, so our data is tremendously rich and we have a lot of it!
We will rely on you to communicate your findings to your peers – both technical and non-technical. Your solutions will need to be demonstrably impactful and visual. You will work with our teams to put your models into production.
Some Challenges You’ll Tackle
• Work with large amounts of data
• Identify opportunities that would help improve the experience of our diners, etc
• Apply predictive modeling techniques for a variety of user modeling tasks
• Work closely with game teams to design, test, verify and implement statistical models
• Design and evaluate novel approaches to experiments for gameplay
• Recognize that sometimes (If not most times) the simple solution is the best solution
• Coach and mentor Data Science team members
You Should Have
• Advanced degrees in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, Astrophysics or other quantitative field; Masters or PhD strongly preferred
• At least 10 + years of experience working with some or all of the following: probability, statistics, data mining, predictive modeling, experimental design, computational analytics, econometric modeling
• 5+ years of experience managing Data Scientists and/or Analysts
• Experience designing, architecting and/or building environments and libraries to facilitate the production of data science and analytics
• Fluency in SQL
• Fluency in some or all of the following: R, Python, Spark (Or equivalent)
• An ability to work independently to get an idea from inception to implementation, including knowledge of techniques for validation and A/B testing
• Experience building deep relationships and the ability to integrate with their stakeholders
• Comfort working effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Comfort collaborating effectively across departments: engineers, product managers, analysts, business, and marketing functions
• A strong business acumen with a customer-first focus in their approach to data science
• A scrappy, action-driven ability to work autonomously
• Highly developed skills in data visualization
• Comfort with Hadoop
And Of Course, Perks!
• Unlimited paid vacation days. Choose how your time is spent.
• Never go hungry! We provide weekly GrubHub/Seamless credit.
• Regular in-office social events, including happy hours, wine tastings, karaoke, bingo with prizes and more.
• Company-Wide Initiatives encouraging innovation, continuous learning and cross-department connections.
Grubhub is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here: DOL Poster. Grubhub is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to TalentAcquisition@grubhub.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.