Description
Las Vegas, Nevada
The SHOW comes alive at MGM Resorts International
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in a place full of excitement, diversity, and entertainment? Are you enthusiastic about being a team player in one of the most fascinating industries in the world? At MGM Resorts, we seek individuals like YOU to create unique and show-stopping experiences for our guests.
THE JOB:
MGM Resorts International has embarked on a multi-year journey in a 1:1 personalization initiative to redefine the casino resort, hospitality, and entertainment experience for guests. The Senior Data Scientist is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned data science professional to contribute to these personalization initiatives. This hands-on individual contributor role will develop and evolve AI/ML models and their orchestration to drive customer engagement and business value. The position is part of the Commercial Data Science team within MGM's Marketing organization and collaborates closely with Commercial Strategy, Customer Engagement, Loyalty, Creative, Product, and Engineering teams. The role is responsible for end-to-end data science contributions, including data munging and normalization, feature engineering, modeling, hyper-parameter tuning, deployment, experimental design, test execution, and measurement.
THE DAY-TO-DAY:
Independently contribute to multiple complex Data Science projects with minimal supervision
Perform hands-on tasks of a seasoned SME of AI/ML model development and implementation
Make significant enhancement to the personalization and commercial strategies by adding Data Science and analytic models
Develops predictive and statistical models. Hyper-parameter-tunes, scales, and deploys models. Orchestrates next best actions, maintains Data Science CI/CD framework, and improves decision
support systems. Executes processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance
Peer-reviews code, writes unit tests, and provides feedback on data pipeline and modeling approaches
Collaborates with other data scientist and recognized subject matter experts in developing and deploying models
Collaborates with analysts and engineers to specify data requirements. Performs data collection, mining, pre-processing, normalization, and feature engineering
Creates audience appropriate documents and presentations with insights, results, and recommendations; and presents those to business partners/stakeholders and non-technical audiences
Develops company A/B test framework, evaluates model quality, conducts test/learn experiments, tests hypotheses, and literally improves data science models to optimize corporate KPIs
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:
Holds a Bachelor's Degree
Has a minimum of 5+ Years of Prior Relevant Experience
Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, operations research, economics, or STEM related fields - Preferred
Proven experience balancing quality of output with short timelines such as developing minimum viable product - Preferred
Experience in agile--sprint-based approach - Preferred
Experience in hospitality, retail, or customer-service oriented industry - Preferred
THE PERKS & BENEFITS:
Wellness incentive programs to help you stay healthy physically and mentally
Access to company hotel, food and beverage, retail, and entertainment discounts as well as discounts with company partners on things like travel, electronics, online shopping, and more
Free parking on and off shift
Health & Income Protection benefits (for eligible employees)
Professional and personal development through programs and networking opportunities as well as volunteer opportunities in the community
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