**Job Description** **Advance Local** has an exciting opportunity to join our Data team as a **Data Scientist** . The **Data Scientist** applies data mining techniques, conducts statistical analysis, and builds high quality prediction systems integrated with our products and the customer data platform to increase consumer and advertising revenue. This position uses large data sets to find opportunities for product, marketing, UX and process optimization and builds models to enable advanced hypotheses testing of different courses of action to improve and increase business performance. This position pays between $120,000 and $140,000 annually. **What you’ll be doing:** + Drive business results with data-based models, analysis and insights, working with stakeholders from departments including consumer revenue, product, content, advertising and analytics to improve business outcomes using and developing a new integrated data platform as well as the customer data platform and using tools and techniques such as A/B testing and other capabilities/tools. + Build and implement models, use and create algorithms to apply to data sets and run simulations. + Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes and campaign effectiveness. + Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of marketing techniques, business strategies and sales tactics. + Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques. + Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, sales targeting and other business outcomes. + Develop company A/B testing framework and test model quality. + Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy. + Develop materials – presentations, communications, reports, etc. to explain findings. **Our ideal candidate will have the following:** + Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science or another quantitative field required; master’s degree preferred + Minimum two years’ experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models + Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on using disparate data sources + Experience using statistics, propensity model building, and algorithms to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets + Experience working with and creating data sets + Experience performing A/B testing and reporting results + Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques and their real-world advantages/drawbacks to recommend business-growth campaigns **Additional Information** Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, mental health support options, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a competitive 401(k) plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity. Advance Local Media is one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com. Advance Local Media includes MLive Media Group, Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, NJ Advance Media, Advance Media NY, MassLive Media, Oregonian Media Group, Staten Island Media Group, PA Media Group, ZeroSum, Headline Group, Adpearance, Advance Aviation, Advance Healthcare, Advance Education, Advance National Solutions, Advance Recruitment, Advance Travel & Tourism, Cloud Theory, Hoot Interactive, Red Clay Media, Search Optics, Subtext, Lonestar Live. Advance Local Media is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Advance Local Media does not provide sponsorship for work visas or employment authorization in the United States. Only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered for this position.