Senior Data Scientist, Digital Content

Company: Nike, Inc.
Location: Beaverton
Posted on: March 24, 2020

Job Description:

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to social media, digital marketing and the retail store experience, our teams at NIKE Digital are reimagining how design and technology meet to serve consumers more directly and personally. We invest in cutting-edge technologies and work with the most creative people in the world. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

Nike is making a strategic push into content creation in the sports, style, running, training, fitness, nutrition, and wellness spaces where we excel. The Content Personalization team will be a foundational piece in the success in this effort. Key to this success will be understanding our content, our members, and our digital experiences and leveraging that understanding to drive personalization as well as informing business partners, science partners, and content creators. To drive this capability, we are seeking data scientists and ML engineers to create human readable and machine readable metadata for content, members, and digital products - think NLP, computer vision on stills and video, autoencoders or classifiers for members' digital pathing behavior, embeddings from a whole range of custom classification or prediction models. Members of our tagging and featurization team will collaborate closely with other data scientists and our partners in analytics, operations, and content creation. They will accelerate machine learning development and adoption across our team and Nike more generally; they will inform and help shape the process by which content is created at Nike, and how digital and content creation teams think about their jobs.

Our team has a collaborative, open, considerate, intellectual, problem solving style. We tackle big problems and drive innovative solutions. We want folks who are excited about being on a dynamic team with a large problem space who can help elevate their teammates and bring different perspectives to all the problems the team is solving. We are leaders helping define how Nike will plan, greenlight, produce, serve, and think about content-centric digital experiences and content creation.

We want someone who loves modeling and writing code, and is excited about creating world class digital experiences for Nike members. A candidate should be experienced in state of the art statistical machine learning algorithms, but also be able to think in terms of the compute processes, distributed data, probabilistic data landscapes, causality, and coupling between systems.

Ours is a growing team in a new space at Nike, so the ideal candidate is ready for technical leadership, helping to drive team excellence and defining and socializing requirements and best practices. We work closely with our partner engineering teams, and collaborate extensively with all of Nike's digital product teams to help drive design of and then deliver personalized experiences. You should be ready for partnership with teams across the company and excited about green spaces in which to make your mark.

Education:
--- B.S. in CS, statistics, applied math, physics or other quantitative discipline
--- Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) preferred

Skills and Experience:
--- 2+ years of experience in a data science or machine learning engineering role
--- Experience developing neural nets and deep architectures into production
--- Experience creating and leveraging embeddings from areas like computer vision, NLP, autoencoders, RNNs, and custom classification and prediction
--- Ability to understand, utilize and innovate on state-of-the art machine learning algorithms
--- Experience designing data products for use in production models by collaborators
--- Experience developing production ML/Data Science code in Python
--- Experience leveraging big data and deploying models at scale, experience with Spark a plus
--- Excellent communication and data visualization skills

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

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