We're looking for a thoughtful and disciplined Lead Data Scientist with deep statistical modeling experience, strong data engineering experience and a passion for games and digital technologies. You will report to a Director of Data Science within EA's central Data and Insights (D&I) organization. You will work with top data science talent to build and improve search and personalization capabilities for most of EA's top games.

What you'll do

• Work directly with the search team to understand their offerings/domain and create data science products and solutions to solve for their use cases.
• Partner with our team lead for Recommendations and Personalization to help surface uniquely personalized content to each player.
• Collaborate closely with Machine Learning Engineers and Machine Learning Operations to deploy and monitor models.
• Coach and mentor other Data Scientists and Senior Data Scientists on the team, ensuring technical best practices and guiding stakeholder communication.
• Ensure sound methodology and experimental design, and guide the direction of each project from start to finish.
• Effectively communicate data science projects and products to stakeholders, including those with non-data science backgrounds.

What you need

• 6+ years of professional experience manipulating data sets, building statistical models and productizing models along with experience applying Data Science methodologies to real-world problems.
• Strong expertise in building, deploying, and testing search algorithms.
• Experience with deep learning.
• Experienced in analyzing extremely complex, multi-dimensional data sets with a variety of tools.
• Superior verbal, visual, and written communication skills to educate and work with cross-functional teams.
• Experience using Python, SQL, Hive, PyTorch/TensorFlow, and AWS/GCP.
• Experience guiding and mentoring more junior Data Scientists.