Director, Data Science

Director, Core Pricing Systems

The primary responsibility for the Pricing team is to accurately and systematically value each individual car that we buy and sell. Last year, CarMax sold over 1 million vehicles and appraised over 2 million vehicles, and Pricing directed over $20B in spend to purchase inventory. To properly value these vehicles, our team must develop and operationalize algorithms that best reflect customer preferences for each vehicle's unique characteristics and that effectively respond to constantly changing consumer demand, wholesale auction supply, and other global/local market conditions.

A Director, Core Pricing Systems, owns the pricing of vehicles in one of three key business areas:

• Retail Pricing – Initially price every retail vehicle
• Appraisal Pricing – Determine customer offer on appraisals
• Offsite Buying – Optimize purchases from auto auctions

What You Will Do – Essential Responsibilities

• Develop optimal pricing strategies that meet both short- and long-term business objectives
• Build a highly engaged team of 4-8 Data Scientists with the skills to implement our pricing strategies across hundreds of thousands of vehicles each year
• Lead the building of Artificial Intelligence to autonomously price every vehicle in an optimal way
• Develop and execute a management system that ensures the right value is put on every vehicle every day

Purpose of the Role

CarMax relies on algorithms to make important decisions about which cars to buy, how to price them, and how to allocate them across our 200+ stores. Doing so ensures that we have the right cars at the right prices to meet our customers' needs. As we continue to innovate our business and shift more of our buying and selling online, we increasingly need to make these decisions quickly with less human intervention. Our team of data scientists and business analysts plays a critical role in unlocking the business value from these innovations.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Ability to perform each of the above essential duties
• Four-year undergraduate degree with exceptional academic performance (Advanced degree is a plus)
• 7+ years' experience in strategy, analytics and/or data science
• Proven ability to deliver business value by leveraging deep analytic skills in order to solve complex business problems
• Experience working effectively with senior management, particularly with a record of success at selling new ideas
• Experience managing highly analytical projects and people

Work Location and Arrangement

This role will be based out of the CarMax Technology Innovation Center (Richmond, VA) and associates will work onsite 4 days per week.

Work Authorization: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Sponsorship will not be considered for this specific role.

The annual salary for this position is:

$161,500.00 - $258,400.00

May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Benefits:

Except as otherwise required by state law, CarMax Associates are entitled to the following paid sick, vacation, and holiday time.

Associates that are considered full-time hourly or commission/incentive eligible:

• To earn up to 48 hours of sick time per year accrued on a per pay period basis and between 80 hours and 200 hours per year of vacation time after a 90 day waiting period depending on years of continuous service with the Company.
• For 8 hours of pay for each of a total of 6 paid scheduled holidays per year plus 1 floating holiday. If such an Associate does work on a scheduled holiday due to business need, they are eligible for Holiday Premium Pay.

Associates considered full-time salaried are entitled to paid time away with no specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc. subject to manager approval.

For more details about benefits, please visit our CarMax Benefits website.

Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job Application.