8901 corp office west crk 12800 tuckahoe creek parkway richmond virginia 23238carmax the way your career should be over twenty years ago carmax disrupted the automotive industry and to this day remains the undisputed market leader in a 500b industry with bestinclass financial performance customer satisfaction and associate engagement carmax is well positioned for continued growth with this growth we strive to maintain our analyticsbased competitive advantage through our algorithm driven pricing and inventory systems to do so were currently looking for experienced analytical modelers and data scientists who are looking to apply their passion for data and technology to drive businesscritical decisions the primary responsibility for the pricing and inventory models team is to accurately value the unique characteristics of each individual car that we buy or sell and also allocate those vehicles across our 150 stores last year alone carmax sold more than 1 million vehicles appraised over 2 million vehicles and had 100m in weekly auto auction spend all while dealing with constantly changing consumer demand wholesale auction supply and other market conditions that are often regionally differentiated to properly value and allocate these vehicles our modeling experts must be able to apply statistical methods to develop predictive models that accurately and instantaneously calculate thousands of recommendations for our field associates daily this requires the combination of a deep understanding of statisticsmachine learningother unique methodologies the technical skills to apply that knowledge to develop and validate models the creativity to be able tothe curiosity to want to apply it in a unique way and the results focus and analytical ability to quickly diagnose and fix data integrity concerns as they arisewhat will you do in this roleas a technical expert of our models a successful sr data scientist candidate will 1 develop and improve models byanalyzing vast amounts of complex pricingrelated data applying statisticalmachine learningother unique methods to developvalidateimprove predictive models and to identify data integrity issuesfinding creative ways to enhance existing models by incorporating new insights and data sources customer interest metrics web click stream data market pricing data etcdesigning controlled experiments to assess the business value of new modelspresenting insights and recommendations to senior management to drive change 2 help carmax continue to develop its data expertise byresearching innovations and best practices related to data sources and modeling methodologiesinfluencing the team in the development of our modeling capability strategic roadmap3 communicate how our models work to team members both at a general level and a detailed level what type of person are we looking forto be successful for this role we are looking for someone that can consistently deliver at a high level on the responsibilities listed above a few of the competencies that will position you for success are 1 strong modeling skills and a desire to continue to grow those skillspassion for using analytics in problem solving 2 ability to influence the teams resultsexperience managing your own projects and delivering timely resultsrecord of building and maintaining strong working relationshipsability to