Senior Data Scientist

About the team

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You’ll join a collaborative Data Science team within Zillow’s Data Analytics and Insights organization, where we partner closely with Product, Engineering, and business teams to solve meaningful customer and business problems. Our team uses advanced analytics, experimentation, and machine learning to turn complex data into insights and scalable solutions that improve Zillow’s products and experiences. We value curiosity, thoughtful collaboration, and a shared commitment to using data to help people unlock life’s next chapter. About the role ------------------

The Senior Specialist, Data Science applies advanced analytical methods and machine learning techniques to solve complex business problems, generate actionable insights, and improve Zillow’s products and customer experiences. The role independently drives end‑to‑end data science projects, partnering with cross‑functional teams to define problems, build and evaluate models, and translate findings into scalable, data‑informed decisions.

You will get to

• Lead end‑to‑end data science projects from problem framing and hypothesis design through model development, validation, and deployment, ensuring solutions are aligned with strategic business goals and customer needs.
• Develop advanced statistical and machine learning models (for example, prediction, recommendation, or optimization) using large, complex datasets, and rigorously evaluate performance to improve accuracy, fairness, and robustness.
• Design and implement efficient data pipelines, feature engineering approaches, and experimentation frameworks in partnership with data engineering and product teams to enable scalable, repeatable analyses and model delivery.
• Translate complex quantitative findings into clear, compelling insights and recommendations for technical and non‑technical stakeholders, informing product roadmaps, operational decisions, and measurable business outcomes.
• Collaborate closely wit