Basketball Data Scientist

• Develop and maintain models to better predict basketball outcomes and facilitate better decision-making across Basketball Operations.
• Perform ad hoc data analysis as necessary to help basketball decision-makers.
• Interface with all departments within Basketball Operations (scouting, coaching, analytics, sports science) and strive to understand and meet their needs.
• Identify, research, and implement opportunities for new models, data sources, and basketball analytics techniques.
• Help maintain and test datasets used to perform analysis.
• Maintain best practices for software development including test writing, documentation, and adherence to and improvement of coding standards.
• Protect the reputation of the company.
• Exemplify the Utah Jazz mission and values: transparent, all in, community obsessed, one team, and scrappy.
• Accept other duties, as assigned.

• Communicates Effectively - Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Demonstrates Self Awareness - Uses a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses., * 2+ years of experience analyzing data and training statistical models in a production environment using Python or R
• 2+ years of experience with basketball data and the latest basketball analytics techniques
• 2+ years of experience with data visualization
• Expertise in statistics fundamentals and state-of-the-art predictive modeling techniques
• A desire to work in a startup-like environment where you will be empowered to make design decisions
• A track record of writing clean and well-documented code
• Bachelor’s in statistics, data science, math or equivalent experience
• Enthusiasm for basketball
• Nice to have experience with MLOps
• Nice to have experience with SQL
• Nice to have experience with data engineering

Physical Demands

• This person must be able to communicate and express themselves both written and verbally.
• This person must be able to observe, inspect, estimate, and assess.
• This person must be able to sit for long periods of time.