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Senior Data Scientist LOC:San Francisco Bay Area


2017-01-17 09:25:02
Job Type: Full Time only
Budget $: 100,000 - 200,000

Job description

Position Summary & Key Accountabilities

Key Responsibilities:

  • Research and develop methods for measuring and analyzing marketing spend effectiveness
  • Research new ways for modeling customer behavior
  • Design experiments to answer targeted questions
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand their business needs.
  • Formulate a roadmap of project activity that leads to measurable improvement in business performance metrics/key performance indicators over time.
  • Conduct end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering and requirements specification, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables and presentations.
  • Architect, develop and automate analytics solutions
  • Make business recommendations (cost-benefit, invest-divest, forecasting, impact analysis) with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through displays of quantitative information
  • Develop comprehensive understanding of data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for both products and sales activity
  • Creatively explore how to use data to continually add value and translate ad hoc questions into flexible methodologies that scale to answer broad problems across the organization
Skills, Abilities, Experience & Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Statistics or related (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Ops Research).
  • Relevant work experience including statistical software (R, S-Plus, SAS, or similar), databases and scripting languages (such as Python).
  • Demonstrated willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques
  • Experience articulating business questions, pulling from datasets and using statistics to arrive at an answer.
  • Experience translating analysis results into business recommendations.
  • Deep interest and aptitude in data, metrics, analysis and trends, and applied knowledge of measurement, statistics and program evaluation.
  • Demonstrated problem solving skills and impeccable business judgment.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills.


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