Capability Model

Data Scientist, Analytics

We’re looking for data scientists to work on our core and business products with a passion for Internet technology to help drive informed business decisions for ****. You will enjoy working with one of the richest data sets in the world, cutting edge technology, and the ability to see your insights turned into real products on a regular basis. The perfect candidate will have a background in a quantitative or technical field, will have experience working with large data sets, and will have some experience in data-driven decision making. You are scrappy, focused on results, a self-starter, and have demonstrated success in using analytics to drive the understanding, growth, and success of a product.

Responsibilities
Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our core/business products
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches.

The Data Scientist Analytics role has work across the following four areas:
Data Infrastructure
Working in hadoop and hive primarily, sometimes mysql, oracle, and vertica
Authoring pipelines via SQL and python based ETL framework
Building key data sets to empower operational and exploratory analysis
Automating analyses
Product Operations
Setting goals
Designing and evaluating experiments monitoring key product metrics, understanding root causes of changes in metrics
Building and analyzing dashboards and reports
Exploratory Analysis
Proposing what to build in the next roadmap
Understanding ecosystems, user behaviors, and long-term trends
Identifying levers to help move key metrics
Evaluating and defining metrics
Building models of user behaviors for analysis or to power production systems
Product Leadership
Influencing product teams through presentation of work
Communicating of state of business, experiment results, etc to product teams
Spreading best practices to analytics and product teams

Requirements
4+ years experience doing quantitative analysis.
BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics or other technical field. Advanced degrees preferred.
Experience in SQL or other programming languages.
Development experience in at least one scripting language (PHP, Python, Perl, etc.)
Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
Ability to communicate the results of analyses in a clear and effective manner
Basic understanding of statistical analysis.
Preferred experience with a statistical package such as R, MATLAB, SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc.
Preferred experience with an Internet-based company.
Experience with large data sets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop) a plus.