Senior Manager, Data Science - Pricing Algorithms - CarMax

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.