Principal Data Scientist Commercial Analytics

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Job Profile Title:

Principal Data Scientist Commercial Analytics

Job Code:

11713

Profile Title:

11713 Principal Data Scientist Commercial Analytics

Grade / Band:

IC5

FLSA Status:

Exempt

MGM Resorts International has embarked on a multi‐year journey in a 1:1 personalization initiative to redefine the casino resort, hospitality, and entertainment experience for guests. The Principal Data Scientist is an exciting opportunity and recognized SME to contribute to the personalization initiatives. This individual contributor will develop and evolve AI/ML models, and their orchestrations. This is a hands‐on role with opportunities to lead large projects. The role resides in the MGM's Commercial Strategy & Consumer Engagement group, as part of Data Science team. The role collaborates with the Commercial Strategy, Customer Engagement,

Marketing, Creative, Product, and Engineering teams. The position manages multiple data science projects and performs hands‐on data science contributions such as data munging and normalization, feature engineering, modeling, hyper‐parameter tuning, deployment, experimental design, test execution, and measurement.

Manage mulƟple large and complex Data Science projects with minimal supervision.

Perform hands‐on tasks of a recognized SME of AI/ML model development and implementation.

Collaborate with analysts and engineers to specify data requirements. Perform data collection, mining, pre‐processing, normalization, and feature engineering.

Develop predictive and statistical models. Hyper‐parameter‐tune, scale, and deploy models. Maintain Data Science CI/CD framework and improve decision support systems. Execute processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance.

Peer‐review code, write unit tests, and provide feedback on data pipeline and modeling approaches.

Make impactful improvements in the Data Science enablement in personalization and commercial analytics.

Implement AI/ML strategic goals established by Commercial Analytic and Data Science leadership by collaborating with marketers, analysts, and strategists to exceed strategic goals of optimizing customer experience, revenue generation, deepen customer relationship, customer growth, and business KPIs.

Create audience appropriate documents and presentations with insights, results, and recommendations; and present those to business partners/stakeholders and non‐technical audiences.

Support in interviewing Data Scientist.

Develop company A/B test framework, evaluate model quality, conduct test/learn experiments, tests hypotheses, and interactively improve data science models to optimize corporate KPIs.

Performs other job-related duties as requested

Proof of eligibility to work in the United States

Bachelor's Degree

Required

8+ Years of Prior Relevant Experience

Required

Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, operations research, economics, or STEM related fields.

Preferred

Proven experience balancing quality of output with short timelines such as developing minimum viable product.

Preferred

Experience in agile‐‐sprint‐based approach.

Preferred

Experience in hospitality, retail, or customer‐service oriented industry.

Preferred

Expert level skills in at least 5 of: Forecasting, Rec engine, statistics and optimization, machine learning, and Markov and graph theory.

Hands‐on expert level skills in Python, SQL, Spark, Keras, Tensorflow.

Mastery level AI/ML modeling expertise in at least 3 of: Personalization, Marketing, Customer Experience, Customer Analytics, and Venue Analytics.

Experience in leading, contributing, and deploying 3 + projects simultaneously while partnering with cross‐functional organizations.

Recognized Data Scientist of AI/ML to contribute to large projects with minimal supervision.

Able to solve highly complex problems drawing solutions from best practices.

Skilled in conducting extensive analysis on the root cause of problems.

Able to implement strategic goals set by the leader of Commercial Strategy & Consumer Engagement.

Strong communication and teamwork skills.

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