What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quantitative Analyst position at Los Angeles Dodgers?
Title: Quantitative Analyst
Department: Baseball Operations
Status: Full-Time
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Pay Rate: $90,000 – $110,000/year*
Reports to: Director, Quantitative Analysis
*Compensation rates vary based on job-related factors, including experience, job skills, education, and training.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are looking for quantitative baseball researchers to turn data into actionable insights through use of mathematical and statistical models. Analysts are expected to build and evaluate models, follow best practices in developing and deploying code, and provide data-backed opinions to coaches and front office decision-makers on decisions regarding on-field strategy, player development, and player evaluation.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Maintain and make improvements to our core predictive models
- Contribute features to internal tooling
- Understand the needs of users and evaluate the day-to-day impact of analytics products
- Perform ad hoc data analyses to answer urgent questions from front office leadership and other groups within baseball operations
- Advise executives and coaches on player evaluation, player development, and on-field strategy
- Make public appearances to student and professional groups to aid departmental recruiting efforts
- Provide mentorship to junior analysts, interns, and various members of the Dodgers organization not coming from a technical background.
Basic Requirements/Qualifications:
- Passionate about winning championships
- 2 years of experience building and evaluating predictive models in industry or equivalent experience in academia
- Experience maintaining a well-organized, well-documented code repository
Nice to Haves
- Experience using data to advise decision-making in some domain
- Experience with model deployment and tools for automating data science workflows
- Experience mentoring early-career data scientists
- Experience with Bayesian Statistics
- Experience with spatial statistics
- Experience with analysis of time series data
- Experience with machine learning, particularly problems involving computer vision
- Experience maintaining and monitoring machine learning models in production
- Experience with SQL
- Experience doing baseball research
Current Los Angeles Dodgers employees should apply via the internal job board in UltiPro by following these prompts:
MENU > MYSELF > MY COMPANY > VIEW OPPORTUNITIES > select the position > CONSENT > APPLY NOW
LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC is firmly committed to providing equal opportunity for all qualified applicants from every race, creed, and background. The Organization is also firmly committed to complying with all applicable laws and governmental regulations at the state and local levels which prohibit discrimination.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC considers all applicants without regard to national origin, race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, military status, citizenship status, pregnancy or related medical conditions, marital status, ancestry-ethnicity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal civil rights law. The Immigration Reform and Control Act require that the Organization obtain documentation from every individual who is employed which verifies identity and authorizes his/her right to work in the United States.
Salary : $90,000 - $110,000
