Senior Manager, Machine Learning

Senior Manager, Machine Learning

Senior Manager, Machine Learning

Location: Austin, TX

Category: Technology

Job ID: 3037

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

At Realtor.com®, Machine Learning is part of our DNA. We process terabytes of data every day, and transform that data into information that powers decisions for millions of home buyers, renters, dreamers, and real estate professionals. We aim to radically simplify home buying/selling and help more people achieve the American dream on our website and mobile apps.

The Sr. Manager, Machine Learning is chartered with comprehending and modeling the various paths to monetization at the company. This is a very high visibility role with extremely high upside as you will have the ability to directly impact the company's bottom line. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for the development of a team to execute on innovative concepts, research, predictive modeling, and machine learning algorithms. You will serve as a manager for the machine learning engineers on the team and provide guidance on their individual projects in addition to serving as an expert for any algorithms that you develop or help develop.

A successful candidate is obsessed with understanding the intricacies of the company and how revenue is realized. Using this as a guiding light and conditioning it on fairness, inclusion, and making sure we have a world-class customer experience is what this individual is chartered with. You should have extensive experience in modeling and strong statistical acumen. Additionally, prior experience managing a team is highly desirable.

What You'll Do:

• Understand the business and data models to effectively query data
• Effectively partner with product and engineering teams to build new data driven and machine learning based features for enriching the consumer experience of home shoppers, renters and sellers.
• Supervise exploratory analysis on Realtor.com® 's wealth of data.
• Direct development of predictive, explanatory models and machine learning algorithms.
• Design and build machine learning solutions to drive revenue growth, customer retention and support strategic decision making.
• Generate descriptive visualizations and presentations to communicate insights.
• Drive A/B & multivariate tests and design of experiments to facilitate testing of new product and design features, with focus on improving engagement, retention, and conversion.
• Help improve the scope of our data sets by identifying new data collection and procurement opportunities on an ongoing basis.
• Mentor a team of machine learning engineers on data exploration, machine learning and developing data-oriented products.
• Work with a sense of ownership and urgency, advocate for experimentation based, agile culture.
• Drive a project forward given just a problem and mission statement.

We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios. Beyond simple usage, this role requires the critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy. You should be comfortable integrating AI tooling into your daily workflow to eliminate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on high-impact architectural and strategic engineering challenges.

What You'll Bring:

• PhD/MS in computer science, statistics, mathematics, operations research or related fields.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in data science, machine learning or applied statistics.
• 2+ years managing a team of machine learning engineers.
• Experience with Machine Learning, NLP and data mining tools and underlying algorithms.
• Experienced in Python, R, Spark or other languages and frameworks appropriate for large scale analysis of structured and unstructured data.
• Working experience with relational databases (SQL) and large scale distributed systems.
• Extensive experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or equivalent
• Experience with experiment design and A/B and multivariate tests.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, distilling complex analysis and concepts into concise business-focused takeaways
• Strong ability to coach Machine Learning Engineers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work three days in our Austin headquarters where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com® is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you'll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you'll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you'll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we'll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

Benefits that fit your life

Your well-being matters to us, and we want you to live your best life. These are just some of the ways we can help keep you and your family safe, healthy, and happy.

Physical health

Good health is all about making good choices and having the right health options throughout your life. To help you, we provide:

• Flexible medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Reproductive care (most locations)
• Access to fertility and family-building services (most locations)
• Gender-affirming coverage, so you can feel and be your truest self
• Access to an inclusive, integrated virtual healthcare navigation program (most locations)
• Autism programs to support you and your family (most locations).
• Telemedicine services (most locations).

Emotional well-being

Your emotional well-being is just as important as your physical health. As Realtor.com, you'll be seen, heard, valued, and cared for in many ways.

• Employee Assistance Program, including work/life counseling and guidance, legal services, and financial services
• Generous paid time off (sick time, vacation time, and various leave programs) to meet your unique needs
• Phone and video counseling services to support your emotional health
• Mental health support for children ages 18 months to 17 years (most locations)
• Access to a mindfulness app to support your emotional well-being

Financial health