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| Company Name: |
Best Buy |
| Location: |
Richfield, MN |
| Position Type: |
Full Time |
| Post Date: |
01/26/2026 |
| Expire Date: |
03/27/2026 |
| Job Categories: |
Customer Service and Call Center, Retail/Wholesale, Sales, Science, Warehousing |
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Lead Data Scientist
We at Best Buy work hard every day to enrich the lives of customers through technology, whether they come to us online, visit our stores or invite us into their homes. We do this by solving technology problems and addressing key human needs across a range of areas, including entertainment, productivity, communicating with coworkers and loved ones, preparing nutritious food, providing security for your home and family, and helping you take your health to the next level.
As a Lead Data Scientist, you'll be responsible for applying innovative statistical and machine learning methods in a scientifically rigorous manner to dive into the largest and most complex data across the enterprise to answer the most difficult questions that are foundational to driving real-world value by offering deep insight into every aspect of the business.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead the technical direction for the data science team on the most important strategic efforts to provide analytic thought leadership that drives a data-grounded perspective to help Best Buy think critically and differently about all aspects of our business to improve our core capabilities and unleash the next generation of customer experiences that will transform the way Best Buy operates day-to-day.
What you'll do- Leading the application of scientific methods to solve real-world business problems using data across multiple business domains
- Developing and implementing cutting edge statistical and machine learning methods to dig deep into complex data to deliver data-driven solutions across all areas of the business including market growth, retail portfolio, customer retention, services, etc.
- Employing broad and deep knowledge of statistics, analytics, and machine learning to contribute to and enhance Best Buy's core data science capabilities
- Leading discussions with business partners to identify the biggest opportunities to bring Best Buy to the next level and influence key decisions around real products that impact and improve the lives of millions of people
- Acting as a mentor for junior data scientists, assign tasks and review for quality and completion
- Conducting discussions with technical and non-technical product team members to determine feasibilities of recommended solutions. Collaborating with other engineers and product team members to implement and deploy scalable solutions.
- Presenting results of any analyses in a manner that is interpretable and technical approach of machine learning product design to team and leadership.
Basic qualifications- Bachelor's degree in a highly quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Operations Research, etc) or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience in data science, data analysis, data mining or other similar business functions. *Advanced degrees in relevant fields may be counted towards experience requirements.
- 2+ years of experience working in cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Advanced proficiency with at least one data science/analytics programming language (Python, R, Julia)
- Advanced skills in data wrangling, validating data and solutions, supervised & unsupervised learning, AI & ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), designing complex algorithms and statistical models, and applied mathematics & statistics
Preferred qualifications- Master's degree or Ph.D in a highly quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Operations Research, etc)
- Experience using high performance machine learning and/or data mining frameworks
- Experience building distributed data processing pipelines (e.g. Apache Spark, Apache Beam)
- 5-8 years hands-on data science experience (in addition to advanced degree)
- Ability to effectively communicate technical information to a wide spectrum of cross-functional team members
What's in it for you
We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life -- in our stores, online and in customers' homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.tm
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
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| Company Name: |
Best Buy |
| Website: | https://jobs.bestbuy.com/bby?id=job_details&req_id=1013942BR&source=HBCUConnect |
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