Senior Data Scientist (BlackLocus Division)

About the role

The Home Depot is hiring a Senior Data Scientist for its BlackLocus division, which is the centre of excellence for competitive intelligence. BlackLocus collects competitive intelligence at scale, matches Home Depot products to competitor products, automatically prices more than 3 million online-only products and uses GenAI to surface insights on competitive intelligence, assortment and pricing. The position may focus on any or all of these areas and directly influences pricing and assortment decisions for a Fortune 25 company. It is listed as virtual, but the employer cannot offer virtual employment in several states.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop algorithms and models applied to large datasets to create business insights (25%)
• Guide the prioritization of work, ensure quality of outputs and develop the competencies of direct reports (25%)
• Establish scalable, efficient processes for large-scale data analysis, model development and implementation (20%)
• Solve problems creatively and use data to build a business case for optimizing price points (20%)
• Stay current on data science and machine learning advances and identify ways to apply them (10%)

Required profile

• Age 18 or older and legally permitted to work in the United States
• Education typically acquired through a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a quantitative field; preferred: PhD or Master's in Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science or similar
• 7 years of experience preferred
• Reports to the Sr. Manager, Data Science; typically less than 10% overnight travel

Required skills

• Extensive experience with Python and SQL
• Data cleaning, data analysis, predictive analytics, causal inference and machine learning
• Preferred: experience designing, testing, deploying and scaling advanced AI systems, including generative AI, agent-based solutions, cloud AI platforms, prompt optimization and multimodal models
• Strong software engineering skills for scalable, production-grade systems

What we offer

• Health care benefits, 401K, ESPP, paid time off and a success sharing bonus
• Pay range of $90,000 - $190,000 for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY) and Washington residents