Data Scientist (Analytics) (Opendoor)

About Opendoor

Are you intrigued by the thought of disrupting a trillion dollar industry through technology? At Opendoor, we are on a bold mission to empower everyone with the freedom to move by making buying, selling and trading-in a home stress-free and instant. In four years since we started, we have hired an exceptional team, seen strong growth, bought and sold over 20,000 homes (with an annual purchase run rate exceeding $3.8 billion), and raised over $1 billion in equity funding. The coming years present a tremendous opportunity for innovation as we explore new frontiers and scale nationwide.

We’re seeking an exceptional Data Scientist to join us to work on our core products such as our seller and buyer experiences, internal tools and pricing algorithms. You will drive data-informed decisions for the business and guide our product direction with your insights.

Day to day you will understand business impact product decisions, using a combination of statistical modeling and business intuition to uncover insights from our data, and build processes generate robust metrics for teams to track to.

As a Data Scientist you will:

• Partner with product, engineering, operations and finance teams to find opportunities, make smart trade-offs, and understand customer impact of new features
• Use data to inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions
• Craft statistical models to gain insights from data and communicate results to partners
• Build pipelines to automate generation of metrics to guide the business
• Become a domain expert in real-estate

We’re looking for teammates who bring:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Comfort and experience building complex SQL queries
• Deep understanding of statistics(e.g., hypothesis testing, regressions)
• Familiarity with ETL design and analytics workloads, preferably experience in building maintainable pipelines
• Highly self-motivated with the desire to solve open-ended problems
• Resourcefulness, pragmatism and ability to drive business impact
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Bonus points:

• You have experience in experimental design and interpretation
• You love delighting customers with honest, transparent products and experiences