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About the Role

The Boston Red Sox seek a Data Scientist for the club’s Baseball Analytics department to develop, evaluate, and optimize predictive models that enhance decision-making across all aspects of Baseball Operations. This role offers a unique opportunity to apply advanced statistical techniques and data science to shape the team's future direction.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain robust predictive models and data pipelines to generate insights for player evaluation, acquisition, development, and performance optimization.
• Craft compelling written reports and data visualizations to effectively communicate complex analyses to diverse audiences, including both technical specialists and Baseball Operations leadership.
• Partner with the Baseball Systems team to seamlessly integrate new analytical findings into team applications and proactively identify and address data quality issues.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate cutting-edge analytics and research from public and academic spaces to recommend innovative ideas, methodologies, and technologies that can enhance on-field performance.

Requirements

• Proficiency in SQL and programming languages such as R or Python.
• A passion for baseball and a strong desire to contribute to building a championship-winning team.
• Effectively demonstrate universal competencies related to problem solving, teamwork, clarity of communication, and time management.
• Embody our culture of honesty, humility, relentlessness, and commitment to DEIB.

Skills

• Understanding of modern statistical and machine learning methods
• Advanced proficiency with popular data science languages and libraries
• Practical understanding of how to approach research questions to drive actionable insights
• Able to visualize, present and disseminate analyses to a diverse group of stakeholders in a clean, intuitive, and engaging way

Location

• Boston

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Varying levels of expertise

Education Level

• PhD or master's degree in a quantitative field (such as statistics, engineering, applied mathematics, physics, quantitative social sciences, computer science, computer vision, or operations research) or equivalent professional experience.

Salary/Compensations

• $75,000–$100,000

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off

About the Company

• At the Boston Red Sox we go beyond embracing diversity. We’re committed to living by our values, strengthening our community, and creating a workplace where people genuinely feel like they belong.

Equal Opportunity

• Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination based on race, religious creed, color, sex, age, national origin, handicap, disability, military/veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or protected genetic information.