Overview:
As a Data Scientist in Ads Business your mission is to turn terabytes of data into insights and get a genuine understanding of the world of our advertisers and listeners. You'll join a team of data scientists and analysts that's part of an existing insights organization and that offers plenty of opportunity for teamwork and learning.
Position Responsibilities
• Perform and present analyses on large sets of data to extract important insights that will help drive product and business decisions.
• Work with colleagues across Ad Sales, Sales Operations, Partner Solutions and Revenue Partnerships to understand analytic needs and deliver impactful findings.
• Collaborate with insight partners across the organization and contribute to the wider data science practice.
• Team responsibilities include delivering the following: data infrastructure, dashboards, metrics, audience segmentation, exploratory analysis and forecasting of trends, marketing attribution, experimentation
• Communicate insights and recommendations to key partners.
• Work closely with multi-functional teams
Must haves
• Proven experience in a similar data science role and a degree in Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Finance, Mathematics, Operations Research or similar quantitative subject area.
• You have worked in an analytics role 4-5 years experience with a business or monetization focus (financial planning, forecasting, quantitative analysis, business intelligence, dynamic pricing and inventory management)
• Technical competence to perform advanced analytics: coding skills with Python, experience with analytics & visualization tools (Pandas, R, SPSS, SQL, Hadoop, Tableau), and experience performing analysis with large datasets.
• Statistical competence (such as regression modeling, a/b testing, significance testing etc) as well as skills in forecasting and time series.
• Enjoy understanding and tackling loosely defined problems and come up with relevant answers and impactful insights to guide product development decisions.
• Nice to have: window functions
Expected length of the engagement:
• 9 months (Extension)
Location/Overlap requirements:
• Fully remote – United States only, preferably East Coast
Client Budget: $8000 - $10,000 per month