Risk Data Science, Director

FanDuel • Jersey City, NJ

13h • $197,000 - $246,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

FanDuel is looking for a Risk Data Science Director to help shape our Risk & Trading team at America’s #1 Sportsbook. The role will include evolving customer and revenue outcomes through profiling and automation, owning the risk operating model, and ensuring a consistent, scalable approach to risk management across regions. You will leverage cutting edge tools and subject-matter expertise to ensure a best-in-class betting experience for our customers.
The role requires a strong knowledge of sports betting proven management experience. You will be a key member of the Risk & Trading leadership team, partnering closely with Trading, Quants, Analytics, Product, Compliance, and Growth team leaders to define priorities, drive cross-functional execution, and continuously improve how we manage risk. The role requires comfort operating in a fast-moving environment and will include work outside of normal business hours, including weekends.
In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

Requirements

• Significant experience in the sports betting or online gambling industry — deep understanding of sportsbook economics, pricing, customer behavior, risk management, and the competitive landscape.
• Proven experience leading data science or analytics teams (5+ direct/indirect reports) with a strong technical background in statistical modeling, machine learning, and computer science.
• Demonstrated ability to quantify and communicate the commercial impact of analytical work — connecting models to revenue, margin, and customer outcomes.
• Experience working with data engineering teams to build and maintain production data pipelines; familiarity with Databricks, Python, SQL, and modern data science tooling.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across Trading, Product, Tech, Compliance, and Growth team leadership.
• Experience with customer profiling, segmentation, automation, or fraud detection
• Experience working with live sports data
• Collaborative, low-ego leadership style; role-models FanDuel values and builds trust across functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Risk Data Science team
• Manage and develop a team of data scientists focused on customer risk profiling, anomaly detection, and risk automation across regions (e.g., Dublin/Melbourne/NJ), including hiring, onboarding, and long-term capability building.
• Set clear priorities, ensure role clarity, and drive measurable outcomes across the team.
• Build a culture of continuous improvement and accountability, focused on best-in-class technical standards and practices.
• Drive risk data science strategy and execution
• Develop and drive risk data science strategy across Sportsbook aligned to business and product goals (revenue, margin, customer outcomes, responsible gaming, compliance).
• Partner with data engineering to modernize data infrastructure, reduce tech debt, and build scalable pipelines. Advance automation throughout risk operations.
• Support the risk operating model, including governance, decision forums, escalation mechanisms, and performance management cadence, with an eye toward improving inefficiencies.
• Establish clear, communicated policies and standards across regions (risk tolerance, profiling, errors, mitigation actions), ensuring consistent interpretation and execution.
• Develop strategies to derive and apply insights from bet information to improve pricing accuracy
• Deliver measurable business outcomes
• Quantify the commercial impact of risk data science work — connect models and analyses to revenue, margin, and customer outcomes.
• Own delivery and adoption of enhancements to profiling strategies, segmentation, monitoring, and interventions—balancing performance with customer-first principles.
• Define success metrics and create consistent performance reporting for risk data science initiatives.
• Cross-functional leadership
• Serve as the primary risk data science partner to Risk Operations, Trading, Growth, Product, and Compliance teams.
• Work closely with the broader Sportsbook data science organization to leverage shared data, models, and tooling.
• Contribute to broader business initiatives (e.g., new state rollouts, new product or promotion launches), ensuring risk readiness and operational scalability.
• Provide strong thought leadership and communication across the department and broader organization, translating complex risk topics into clear executive narratives.

Benefits

• We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
• We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards.
• Benefits differ across location, role, and level.
• medical, vision, and dental insurance
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• a 401(k) matching program
• paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays
• paid sick time

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed