Principal Data Scientist – Rentals Marketplace Ads Team

About Zillow

Zillow Group’s mission is to give people the power to unlock life’s next chapter. We’re currently seeking a Principal Data Scientist to join the Rentals Marketplace Ads team! On the Marketplace team, we’re passionate about understanding Rentals Product performance through meticulous analysis and measurement. Our team works closely with Zillow’s Leadership on the Rentals team to uncover opportunities through data to deliver on the Zillow promise to customers – revolutionary and intuitive tools to find your dream home. The Rentals Marketplace Ads Team sits within the larger Marketplace Ads & Sales Analytics (MASA) team. This role will focus on Zillow’s Rentals business and will work closely with product, strategy, engineering, sales, and marketing teams to deliver the data and insights necessary to grow the rentals marketplace. We work cross functionally with our data engineering and sales analytics counterparts who comprise the rest of MASA. Zillow Rentals has strong competitors in the space, but has been growing at an incredible rate for the last two years. As we continue to grow, the demands for higher quality and more targeted analysis will only increase.

About the role

As a principal data scientist you’ll work closely with Zillow’s Rentals data and product leadership teams to discover deep insights about the Zillow Rentals marketplace, while directly supporting product initiatives that affect our multifamily products. More specifically, this role will:

• Analyze and interpret large, complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights that support Zillow’s burgeoning rentals ecosystem.
• Collaborate with product stakeholders to define key metrics, goals, and objectives, and develop data-driven strategies to achieve them.
• Utilize causal inference techniques and novel experimental designs to evaluate the launches of pilot programs.
• Mentor and coach junior team members on executing analytic requests and help unblocking through code reviews & best practice sharing.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, such as product, marketing, engineering, and corporate strategy, to ensure relevant insights are surfaced for decision making.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to design and optimize data pipelines and workflows to support efficient data collection, storage, and processing.
• Effectively communicate complex analytical findings to diverse stakeholders, translating technical concepts into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Dive into Zillow’s internal and third party data (think Databricks, Snowflake, Big Data) to develop solutions that will help move the business forward and enable better decisions at a rapid speed.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position.