[Remote] Data Scientist II (Basketball/Hockey)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teamworks is the Operating System for Sports™, powering over 6,500 organizations worldwide. They are seeking a Data Scientist II to build metrics, models, and analyses using proprietary tracking and pose data for elite sports organizations, focusing on both basketball and hockey analytics.ResponsibilitiesBuild and transform new data sources into tables, features, and structures that are easy for the team and our clients to build onDevelop, extend, and validate models — including event-probability models and athleticism models — ensuring data representation supports both current and future use casesBuild metrics and analyses that NHL and NBA clients rely on to make decisions, and support client-facing work by digging into the data to answer their questions directlyExtract meaningful features from high-dimensional tracking and pose data, and update existing models to incorporate new signals as they become availableValidate models and outputs — your own and others' — with enough rigor that the team can trust what shipsWrite clear reports that communicate technical work to the product team and broader organizationSkills3+ years of experience working with sports tracking data including the kinds of models typically built and the data challenges that come with themStrong data science fundamentals: you understand how models work, what they need from the data, and how to set data up to support themProficiency in Python or R, with solid statistical foundations and comfort with SQL for building and querying structured dataAttention to detail in how data is structured and represented, with an eye for edge cases, consistency, and how downstream users will interact with what you buildA team-first mentality — both teams are small, and being someone others can rely on matters as much as technical skillFor Hockey: direct experience with hockey data or hockey analytics (inside a team, public work, or academically), and familiarity with pose or skeleton data or other high-dimensional spatiotemporal data sourcesFor Basketball: experience working inside an NBA front office or comparable environment, familiarity with deep learning methods, and public-facing basketball analytics work that demonstrates how you think about the gameBenefitsOffers EquityOffers BonusCompany OverviewTeamworks is an operating system for sports that supports talent acquisition, seamless operations, and holistic performance development. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.teamworks.com.Company H1B SponsorshipTeamworks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.