Senior Decision Scientist

Job Description

Opendoor is seeking a Senior Decision Scientist to join their centralized Decision Science team. In this role, the individual will partner with various teams, including Operations, Product, Marketing, and Pricing, to drive business growth through data-backed recommendations. They will be responsible for owning analytics for specific areas of Opendoor and collaborating with business stakeholders to shape strategic direction.

What the Decision Scientist role involves:

• Becoming the go-to data analytics owner on a team of Product Managers, Operations Managers, Software Engineers, and Designers for a specific domain area
• Developing metrics and dashboards to streamline data reports for everyone from Operators to senior leadership, on critical business results and drive the impact of data-driven decisions
• Partnering closely with internal stakeholders to ideate, opportunity size, and execute strategic business initiatives that impact product features – ultimately, improving the Opendoor experience for our customers and users
• Improving analytics quality and efficiency in collaboration with Data Scientists, Software Engineers and Data Engineers
• Becoming a domain expert in real estate

Requirements for the role:

• 5+ years of experience post academia, working in an analytical role – leading data discoveries, strategies and discussion with non technical stakeholders in the business
• Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools such as Mode, Tableau or Looker
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to influence non-technical audiences with analytical insights and data visualizations
• Comfort working with complex and fast-evolving data sets
• System thinking and creativity to solve complex problems by going deep and understand its core drivers
• Experience with experimentation and A/B testing

Opendoor offers:

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, 12 paid holidays per year, medical/dental/vision insurance, basic life insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.