Director of Engineering - Pricing/ML

Director of Engineering - Pricing/ML

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About Opendoor
Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move. We believe the traditional real estate process is broken and our goal is simple: build a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple, certain and fast. We have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds to support more than 100,000 homes bought and sold with us and the customers who have selected Opendoor as a trusted partner in handling one of their largest financial transactions. But the work is far from over as we continue to grow in new markets. Transforming the real estate industry takes tenacity and dedication. It takes problem solvers and builders. It takes a tight knit community of teammates doing the best work of their lives, pushing one another to transform a complicated process into a simple one.  So where do you fit in? Whether you’re passionate about real estate, people, numbers, words, code, or strategy -- we have a place for you. Real estate is broken. Come help us fix it.

We are looking for an Engineering Director to lead our Pricing organization. The Pricing Team is responsible for the engineering of quantitative systems and models driving Opendoor’s business. From supporting research on our Automated Valuation Model, and launching those models in production, to building interactive tools that allow us to marry human insight with algorithms, Pricing keeps all of our business lines healthy and growing. Our goal is to enable Opendoor to serve our customers by providing accurate, quantitative assessments of value and risk — which in turn allows us to offer competitive fees and a great end-user experience for buyers and sellers alike.

You will own and drive our technical strategy on Pricing systems in conjunction with your Product, Operations, and Research & Data Science peers. You will lead a growing organization with plans to double in size in 2022, including building additional teams from the ground up. Pricing is at the heart of what makes Opendoor a viable business, and we need expertise in data, machine learning, and tooling to build systems that help us deliver optimal prices to serve our customers and manage towards our P&L.

As a senior engineering leader in the company, you will both mentor and hire managers to support our team’s growth, and be a thought partner for Engineering leadership, as well as our data science and business counterparts. As a hands-on leader with a bias towards action, you’ll help the team fulfill complex technical, operational, and business requirements.

Role Responsibilities :

    • Set the long-term technical direction and strategy of the Pricing Engineering team.
    • Drive quality and reliability to ensure smooth functioning of both online and offline systems.
    • Hire, retain and set the bar for senior Engineers and Engineering Managers.
    • Support, grow and mentor your Engineering Managers and broader organization in collaboration with the other Directors and Senior leaders on our team.

We’re looking for teammates who have:

    • 7+ years of relevant engineering work experience, with 3+ years of experience managing managers.
    • Quantitative experience, either via previous job experience or a Bachelor’s or higher degree in Mathematics, Statistics, appropriate subfields of Computer Science, or a related field.
    • Experience partnering with complex organizations, ideally including close collaboration with Operations and Research or Data Science teams.
    • A proven track record of driving highly efficient teams of engineers in a fast-paced environment to deliver short-term and long-term business value.
    • Experience guiding the design and development of large-scale applications.
    • Instituted consistent cultural choices that positively impact engineering organizations.
    • Proven ability to both select and effectively use data and metrics to drive decisions
    • A bias for action and an iterative approach to collaborative problem-solving.
    • Experience actively coaching and mentoring managers and other leaders within engineering organizations.
    • A high level of organization and the ability to negotiate priorities and keep projects on schedule.

Bonus points:

    • Experience leading teams involved with Full Stack web development (e.g. React, API Design, Rails, Postgres)
    • Hands-on or team lead experience working on full-stack, backend, or MLE development projects.
More About Us
To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out our website, to hear about our culture directly from team members visit The Muse and to discover what we are building for our customers read our blog posts.

We Offer the Following Benefits and Perks
• Full medical, dental, and vision with optional 85% coverage for dependents
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave
• Paid time off to volunteer
Please note that these benefits and perks are available only to Full Time team members and do not apply to contract roles.

Opendoor Values Openness
Our team celebrates our diverse backgrounds. We believe that being open about who we are and what we do allows us to be better. Individuals seeking employment at Opendoor are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other protected status under all applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. For California residents: for more information about the categories of personal information that we collect for recruiting purposes, please see our personnel Privacy Policy.

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