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Indeed is the world's largest marketplace for jobs, with a unique dataset spanning jobs, resumes, applications, and outcomes. As a Senior Data Scientist on the Utility team in Marketplace Efficiency, you will extend Indeed's marketplace optimization across the core and partner sites.

You will partner with senior scientists to bring ranking and utility optimization to Indeed's core sites as well as our international and partner sites across Japan marketplace, Glassdoor, and new surfaces such as Career Scout. You will own initiatives that find opportunities to improve ranking and marketplace outcomes on these surfaces.

You will design experiments, analyses, and models that tune the shared ranking utility for each surface. You will define the metrics and guardrails that show when a change helps jobseekers and employers. You will also build reusable tools and methods so that optimization work transfers across surfaces with less effort.

You will work with product, engineering, and science teams across Indeed, Glassdoor, and our Japan organizations to inform surface roadmaps. Your work will turn one optimization approach into results on many surfaces.

Responsibilities

+ Oversee data-driven initiatives that uncover opportunities to improve product performance and business outcomes.

+ Design and execute advanced analyses, experiments, and machine learning models to address complex product and business questions.

+ Partner with product and engineering teams to define metrics, track performance, and inform both short- and long-term product strategies.

+ Mentor and guide other data scientists, fostering best practices in methodology, modeling, and analytical thinking.

+ Collaborate across teams to influence decisions with clear, compelling insights and visualizations tailored to diverse audiences.

+ Contribute to the development of tools, techniques, and processes that enhance the efficiency and impact of the data science team.

+ Serve as a recognized technical resource in the organization, helping solve high-impact problems and advising on analytic approaches.

Skills/Competencies

+ Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or a Master's degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience; or a PhD without experience

+ Loves thought-provoking assignments and is eager to learn.

+ Expertise in A/B testing and experimentation is required

+ Solid foundation in data science methods and technologies.

+ Able to influence technical direction and contribute to long-term planning.

+ Able to work effectively with other teams and mentor colleagues.

+ Experience with ranking, recommendation, or matching systems, including offline and online evaluation

+ Experience with optimization methods, such as constrained or multi-objective optimization, applied to ranking or marketplace problems

Salary Range Transparency

Tier 1 - United States of America 125,000 - 187,000 USD per year

Tier 2 - United States of America 138,000 - 208,000 USD per year

Tier 3 - United States of America 152,000 - 228,000 USD per year

Tier 4 - United States of America N/A

Tier 5 - United States of America 173,000 - 259,000 USD per year

Salary Range Disclaimer

The salary range for this role reflects the minimum and maximum compensation for the role. Offers are typically made between the range minimum and the range midpoint. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process. The range(s) listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), a Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits. Compensation may also vary based on where a role is performed, as work locations are grouped into geographic pay tiers to reflect cost of labor differences in different geographic markets. Candidates can view geographic pay tiers by location on our career site ( https://www.indeed.com/careers/paytiers ), and recruiters can confirm how location is considered for a specific role.

Benefits - Health, Work/Life Harmony, & Wellbeing

We care about what you care about. We have a multitude of benefits to support Indeedians, as well as their pets, kids, and partners including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. Indeedians are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan, as well as an equity-based incentive program. Indeedians will also receive open paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year and up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave. For more information, select your country and learn more about our employee benefits, program, & perks at https://www.indeed.com/careers/benefits !

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement

Indeed is deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neuro-diversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.

Indeed provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please visit https://www.indeed.com/careers/accommodations . If you are requesting accommodation for an interview, please reach out at least one week in advance of your interview.

For more information about our commitment to equal opportunity/affirmative action, please visit our Careers page ( https://www.indeed.com/careers ).

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