Senior Quant - Quant Research

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

Our Sr. Quants develop pricing, yield optimization, and recommendation systems for Home Depot’s retail media network – Orange Apron Media (OAM). In this position, you will analyze marketing data to uncover trends, provide insights, and create optimization pipelines and flows that enhance OAM’s advertising offerings. Sr. Quants work closely with our engineering partners across ideation, development, and delivery. The team’s primary languages are SQL and Python, which are orchestrated with Dataform and Dataflow.

Key Responsibilities:

• 30% Develop technical solutions to analyze performance data and create visualizations.
• 40% Develop marketing optimization strategies and work with engineering partners to move solutions to production.
• 20% Work with business stakeholders to understand business needs and implement technical solutions.
• 10% Build templates to enhance team skillset and enable rapid solution development.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to Sr Manager
• Position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• No travel Required

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Responsible for helping others and providing on-the-job training or guidance
• Demonstrated business/financial modeling capabilities with tools such as Excel and Access
• Demonstrated skills in applying statistical analysis principles to business challenges
• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail; self-starter

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior Business Analyst or Software Development roles
• Proficiency in programming languages, with an emphasis on SQL and Python
• Education or experience in Statistics, Machine Learning, or Dev Ops
• Presentation and technical communication skills

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Action Oriented
• Collaborates
• Drives Engagement
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Drives Results
• Manages Conflict