Senior Data Scientist

Best Buy

Minneapolis, Minnesota

JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Minneapolis, Minnesota
POSTED
5 days ago

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead high-impact analytics initiatives within our Ads Analytics team. In this manager-level role, you'll guide technical execution, mentor data scientists, and collaborate across teams to deliver insights that shape our advertising ecosystem.

You'll dive deep into experimental design, predictive modeling, and Bayesian statistics-while also helping build scalable analytics infrastructure and AI-powered tools. If you love solving complex problems and translating data into clear, actionable strategies, this is the role for you.

What You'll Do
  • Lead analytics projects focused on ad performance, client measurement, and experimentation.
  • Design and oversee experiments to evaluate product impact and optimize advertising outcomes.
  • Build forecasting models and apply Bayesian frameworks to support strategic decisions.
  • Develop scalable data pipelines and reporting tools across cloud platforms.
  • Communicate insights through clear, compelling visualizations for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Mentor junior data scientists and foster technical excellence across the team.

Basic qualifications
  • 4+ years of experience focused on advertising, marketing analytics, or client measurement, with a strong ability to connect data insights to business strategy.
  • 2+ years of experience in experimental design, statistical modeling, and causal inference, with a conceptual understanding of how these methods support decision-making and business impact.
  • Proficient in Python or R and SQL, with 1+ years of experience writing code that supports both analytical rigor and scalable data workflows.
  • 1+ year of experience working within cloud-based data environments (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure), with a conceptual understanding of cloud infrastructure and its role in scalable analytics.
  • 2+ years of experience leading data-driven projects, influencing

About the Company

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Best Buy

Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1966
WEBSITE
http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/