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Senior Manager, Data Science - Pricing Algorithms - CarMax
Data Scientist
Lead a data science team that builds and deploys pricing algorithms for vehicle valuation, leveraging Python, machine learning, statistical modeling, and cloud infrastructure to drive profitable inventory decisions.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the roadmap for pricing algorithms that assess vehicle value across millions of units annually.
- Lead a multidisciplinary data science team, mentoring senior analysts and engineers to deliver production‑grade machine‑learning models.
- Collaborate with product, finance, and operations stakeholders to translate business objectives into data‑driven pricing strategies.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable data pipelines and cloud infrastructure (AWS) for model training, validation, and real‑time inference.
- Monitor model performance, conduct A/B tests, and iterate quickly to respond to market dynamics, auction supply, and consumer demand.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands‑on experience building pricing or recommendation models, with a strong background in Python and machine‑learning libraries.
- Expertise in statistical modeling, optimization techniques, and experimental design.
- Proven leadership of data‑science teams delivering production‑scale solutions.
- Experience designing robust data pipelines and deploying models on AWS (SageMaker, EMR, Lambda, etc.).
- Excellent communication skills to convey complex analytical insights to non‑technical stakeholders.
Skills
pythonmachine learningaws