Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
At Realtor.com, data is part of our DNA. We process terabytes of data every day, and transform that data into information that powers decisions for millions of home buyers, renters, dreamers, and real estate professionals. We aim to radically simplify home buying/selling and help more people achieve their dream of homeownership on our realtor.com website and mobile apps.
The Senior Manager of Machine Learning is chartered with just that - accelerating our ability to scale the team and our capabilities. You will be responsible for radically changing the way the team does its work by creating, maintaining, and training the team on tools used to scale what they do. In addition to this, you will be tasked with assessing new data, lines of business and potentially new algorithms against existing or new problems in the company.
A successful candidate will have a thirst for knowledge. Able to learn and apply new concepts quickly and effectively. You will also have a strong foundation in cloud technologies and data science tooling. Making the team as a whole more efficient and effective should be the guiding light of the individual in this role.
Responsibilities:
- Engage with business teams to find opportunities, understand requirements, and translate those requirements into technical solutions
- Understand the business and data models to effectively query data and define common datasets and utilities to recompute/access them.
- Help improve the scope of our data sets by identifying new data collection and procurement opportunities on an ongoing basis.
- Effectively prioritize competing initiatives across direct reports; translate strategic priorities into individual/team initiatives and manage expectations
- Communicate results of analyses to business partners and executives
- Research new technologies and methods across machine learning, data science, data engineering, and data visualization to improve the technical capabilities of a team of machine learning engineers and data scientists
- Hire and build a team of high output machine learning engineers.
- Work with a sense of ownership and urgency, advocate for experimentation based, agile culture.
Requirements:
- PhD/MS in computer science, machine learning, or related fields.
- 6+ years of relevant experience in data science, machine learning or applied statistics.
- Experience with Machine Learning, NLP and data mining tools and underlying algorithms.
- Experienced in Python, R, Spark or other languages and frameworks appropriate for large scale analysis of structured and unstructured data.
- Working experience with relational databases (SQL) and large scale distributed systems.
- Extensive experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or equivalent
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, distilling complex analysis and concepts into concise business-focused takeaways
- Strong ability to coach Machine Learning Engineers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers
Preferred:
- Prior success in a leadership role (team of 4+)
- Extensive experience with containerization and Docker
- Experience with common pipelining tools such as Airflow, Luigi, Metaflow, etc.
Reasons to Apply:
- Lead and architect advanced ML solutions for real estate search and recommendations at scale
- Drive technical strategy and innovation in search and personalization
- Mentor and develop talent while shaping the future of the industry
- You’ll drive direct consumer impact by building the engine that helps millions of people find their way home.
How We Work
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices in Austin, TX, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
How We Reward You:
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®
Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
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What We Do
We pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago. Today, through our website and mobile apps, we are a trusted guide for consumers, empowering more people to find their way home by breaking down barriers, helping them make the right connections, and creating confidence through expert insights and guidance. For professionals, we are a trusted partner for business growth, offering consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world.
Why Work With Us
The way home begins with you. With a diverse team of experts alongside you, you’ll help us reach new heights at the forefront of the digital real estate space. Bring your extensive knowledge and deep expertise and collaborate with other passionate visionaries to lead our industry and revolutionize the way people find home, in every form.
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