Remote (City)

Sleeper is hiring a Data Scientist - Risk and Trading (Daily Fantasy Sports)

Responsibilities

  • Analyze data to detect trends and insights supporting risk and liability management in daily fantasy sports operations.
  • Create predictive algorithms to assess real-time exposure across specific events and markets.
  • Clean, process, and organize data while building tools to track model accuracy and system performance.
  • Track live odds, player stats, and news to inform immediate market changes and verify timely, accurate data ingestion from external sources.
  • Design user risk profiles by analyzing behavioral patterns and work with teams to improve personalization in the fantasy ecosystem.
  • Automate trading and risk workflows to support scaling across users, sports, and markets, while advancing research and innovation in the function.

Benefits

  • Medical insurance coverage
  • Dental insurance coverage
  • Paid time off
  • 401k retirement plan

Other

  • Availability to work outside standard hours, including nights and weekends, to match high-activity periods in the sports schedule.
  • Flexible scheduling approach to help maintain work-life balance around fluctuating game calendars.
Required Skills
SQLPythonData ScienceMachine LearningStatistical ModelingA/B TestingRisk AnalysisData AnalysisData VisualizationCommunicationProblem Solving
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