At a Glance
- Tasks: Transform complex data into actionable insights and drive business growth.
- Company: Join FairPlay Sports Media, a leader in the fast-paced iGaming sector.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and community engagement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by leveraging data to shape strategic decisions.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in data science, strong SQL and Python skills required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
We are seeking an inquisitive and impact-driven Data Scientist to join our Analytics team.
In this role, you won't just build models—you will translate complex, unstructured data into actionable strategic directions that drive our core business forward.
You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations to build predictive frameworks, and discover growth opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Experimentation & A/B Testing: Design, execute, and analyze rigorous A/B and multivariate tests to measure feature performance, user retention, and business impact.
- Predictive Analytics & Machine
Learning: Build, validate, and maintain scalable predictive models (e. g., churn, forecasting, customer lifetime value (CLV) and user segmentation) to guide business decisions.
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Deep dive into large, complex datasets to identify trends, user behavioral patterns, operational bottlenecks, and unexpected growth opportunities.
- Features Definition & Measurement: Establish and standardize key features to track for modelling and customer data platform.
- Cross-Functional Strategy: Partner with product managers, executive leadership, and business stakeholders to turn open-ended questions into structured quantitative analyses.
- Analytics AI Agents: Design, deploy, and manage autonomous AI agents that automate repetitive analytics tasks and generate insights.
- Data Pipelines & Quality
Assurance: Partner with Data Engineering to curate analytical datasets, build clean data transformations (dataform/SQL), and uphold data governance standard practices.
Qualifications & Skills
- Advanced SQL: Highly proficient in writing optimized, complex queries across large cloud data warehouses (e. g., Snowflake, Big Query).
- Programming & Modelling: Strong proficiency in Python for statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning.
- Statistics & Math: Deep understanding of statistical inference, regression analysis, probability theory, decision trees, and hypothesis testing (p-values, confidence intervals, Bayesian testing etc.).
- Data Visualization: Hands‑on experience building interactive dashboards using tools like Power BI, Looker, or Python libraries.
- Experience: 3+ years of experience in a quantitative analytics or data science role in a fast‑paced environment.
- Business Acumen: Demonstrated track record of framing business problems into mathematical/statistical frameworks and outputting actionable recommendations.
- Communication: Ability to distill complex statistical concepts into clear, plain language for non‑technical executives.
- Nice‑to‑Haves: Experience with data building tools (i. e. Dataform) for data transformation workflows.
- Nice‑to‑Haves: Experience with digital product analytics tools (i. e., Google Analytics).
- Nice‑to‑Haves: Experience with AI Agents i. e, Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform).
Fair Play Sports Media is a sports media network, focused on building and nurturing a portfolio of highly engaged and connected communities of sports fans and bettors to create value for our partners.
By empowering our customer communities to compete in the sports betting game, the performance and results our betting, advertiser and media partners need will follow. i Gaming is one of the fastest growing and technologically innovative sectors and we're on top of our game, powered by market‑leading tech and driven by brilliant people.
Fair Play Sports Media currently comprises of three brands (Oddschecker, Who Scored, Super Scommesse) and a digital media agency (VIME), with Oddschecker being the leading name in sports betting and odds comparison globally.
Our global media partners include Forbes, The Daily Mirror, Golf Monthly, 33rd Team, Yardbarker, and more.
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