Firm Name: Wayfair
Numbers of Jobs: Senior Manager
Education Need: Graduate
Job Hours: 8
Payment: $20-$30/Hours
What's Job City: Las Vegas
Job Details:
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- The Wayfair Machine Learning Science underpins automation and decision support across all of the Wayfair business units. Our algorithms address a wide range of issues in the Wayfair marketplace, from empowering suppliers to quickly add products to our catalog to facilitating customers' access to and purchase of a huge and diverse range of home goods.
- The Search and Recommendations Machine Learning Science team has determined that one of Wayfair's recommendation science teams needs a senior manager with leadership experience in machine learning. In this role, you will become a member of Search & Recommendations' executive team. You will oversee a group of 5 to 10 machine learning scientists and engineers as they create a customized customer experience by fusing customer behavior with Wayfair's content and product data. We are seeking a candidate who will coordinate the team's use of cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning techniques to develop and implement personalized product recommendations, customer understanding, and personalized content targeting strategies.
- You will collaborate closely with leaders in engineering, analytics, and product management to create our next generation of personalization models. Making a research agenda and making sure it gets done will be your responsibility. Your work will help Wayfair's suppliers reach a wider audience with their products, making it easier for customers to quickly and easily find the home goods they need. You will be supporting recommendations across our storefront, email, and marketing channels, serving billions of recommendations every day in this strategic position.
Responsibilities:.
- While in charge of a group of ML scientists and engineers, develop, test, and put into practice machine learning models for personalization.
- oversee the development of models and algorithms for specialized content targeting, custom product recommendations, and client comprehension.
- Work with Product Management and other stakeholders to identify and rank new personalization opportunities and features based on Wayfair's own data, customer insights, organizational goals, and data analysis.
- We must work closely with our engineering partners to incorporate any new and improved models into our platform in order to provide our customers with a completely unique and personalized experience.
- The highest caliber personalized solutions will be delivered if best practices are established and put into practice for data collection, processing, and model training.
- Manage project schedules, budgets, and resources to guarantee the prompt and efficient delivery of personalization initiatives.
Requirements:.
- a graduate degree in statistics, computer science, or another related field, or equivalent work experience.
- team-management expertise in a data science or machine learning role.
- You should have created, implemented, and maintained a large number of machine learning models for use in recommender systems.
- Strong programming skills in Python or Java, practical knowledge of big data tools like BigQuery or Spark, and ideally experience with cloud-based platforms (we use GCP) are all required.
- Ability to handle ambiguity in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities, as well as the ability to communicate succinctly and concisely in a technical context to non-technical audiences.
- And finally, you enjoy working with others and building a positive team dynamic!