Senior Data Scientist - Personalization at Sam's Club

Location: 1670 W University Dr, McKinney, TX 75069-3444, United States of America

Position Summary

As a Senior Data Scientist in our Personalization team, you will collaborate with business stakeholders and product managers to convert qualitative requirements into robust, scalable, and quantitative ML solutions. Your role will involve creating E-commerce and marketing experimental designs, identifying optimal data sources, and implementing both short- and long-term data strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Propose and design technical ML solutions and architectures based on business requirements.
• Deploy and scale ML models for personalization and recommendation projects.
• Develop efficient, reusable code components and validate ML models to improve business objectives.
• Identify and design data strategies suited for project needs.
• Communicate ML project achievements and challenges with both engineering and business partners.

What You'll Bring

• Strong business intuition in personalization and recommendation domains.
• Proficient in data engineering using SQL and PySpark.
• Knowledge in experimental design (e.g., AB testing) and both supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
• Experience with ML Ops concepts, deployment, and monitoring frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or related field with 2-3 years of industrial experience in data and modeling, or PhD in a quantitative field.
• 4+ years of professional coding experience with SQL and Python.
• Knowledge of relational databases and experience with cloud computing services such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience with integrating, structuring, and analyzing large datasets.
• Acute expertise in supervised and unsupervised predictive modeling algorithms.
• Strong project management and documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to various audiences.

About Sam's Club

Founded by Sam Walton in 1983, Sam's Club offers affordable wholesale merchandise to its members, helping families and small business owners save. The company operates over 600 clubs in the U.S. and more than 100 internationally. Sam's Club, employing around 110,000 associates in the U.S., provides a wide array of bulk groceries and general merchandise along with specialty services like pharmacy, optical department, photo center, and tire center.

Future Ways of Working

While technology enables effective remote working, in-office interactions are key to fostering our culture, collaboration, and innovation. We strive for a balanced work-life by providing flexibility but emphasize regular, purposeful in-person meetings.

Benefits

At Sam's Club, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Compensation: Competitive pay and performance-based bonuses.
• Health Benefits: Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial Benefits: 401(k), stock purchase plan, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid Time Off: PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other Benefits: Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Education Benefits: Live Better U – a company-paid education program covering tuition, books, and fees for various degrees and certifications.

Eligibility and terms for some benefits may depend on the job classification and length of employment. For detailed information, please visit .

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sam’s Club is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in valuing diversity and inclusivity, respecting unique styles, experiences, identities, and ideas to better serve our associates, customers, and communities.

Application Process

If you meet the qualifications and are excited about working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply. The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $