about cox automotive cox automotives 30000 team members are transforming the way the world buys sells and owns cars weve built the strongest portfolio in the industry with more than 25 brands providing industryleading digital marketing software financial wholesale and ecommerce solutions for consumers dealers manufacturers and the overall automotive ecosystem our brands include familiar names and industry leaders such as autotrader kelley blue book manheim dealercom and dealertrack with these top automotive properties cox automotive has the best and most comprehensive vehicle data assets in the industry job description the lead data scientist plays a pivotal role in a highly visible business unit within the organization cox automotive is leveraging machine learning and its vast data assets to personalize cox automotive products to customers the lead data scientist will join a cross functional team developing machine learning solutions for the cox automotive ecosystem of applications collaborating with data engineers and subject matter experts the lead data scientist will deliver results which support directional action by business teams across the market intelligence finance sales operations product and technology functions they will partner with other data scientists to establish best practices and thought leadership for a machine learning platform to serve all of cox automotive responsibilities develop a thorough understanding of business problems through interviewing stakeholders and subject matter experts derive what is critical and what is extraneous to solving the business problem understand the data requirements for formulating the solution research new data sets and determine their quality and feasibility manipulate data to support various statistical techniques build machine learning models appropriate for each business problem collaborate with data engineers to ensure solutions are successfully operationalized effective story telling with data interpret and communicate analytic results to analytical and nonanalytical business partners and executive decision makers critical competencies passionate about machine learning a thought leader who researches latest tools techniques and trends and looks for innovative approaches always learning about data science industry market business etc critical thinking skills ability to assess a situation from multiple points of view high personal and professional standards unassailable integrity and ethics highenergy and selfstarter personality strong structured coding skills team oriented able to train develop and mentor other data scientists qualifications masters or phd in computer science analytics or other relevant line of study required at least 10 years experience performing advanced quantitative analyses experience with data visualization tools excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms such as knn kmeans nlp naive bayes svm etc experience with recommendation engines applied statistics skills such as distributions statistical testing regression etc experience with common data science toolkits in r and python experience working in with aws environments experience with relational databases and proficiency in query languages such as sql about cox automotive cox automotive inc makes buying selling and owning cars easier for everyone while also enabling mobility services the global companys 34000plus team members and family of brands including autotrader clutch technologies dealercom dealertrack kelley blue book manheim nextgear capital vinsolutions vauto