At SmartNews, decision making based on scientific analysis accelerates product and business growth. Data science plays an important role in improving user satisfaction and giving value to business stakeholders like publishers, and advertisers.
We are seeking a data scientist who has a proactive mind in ambiguous environment and the skill to deliver impactful actionable insight to product and business.
Responsibilities
- Analyze data for one or more of the following areas:
- ad product development
- ad sales
- marketing
- mobile app UI/UX
- news/video content
- other product analyses
- Proactively ideate analysis projects and prioritize them
- Report data insights and predictions via visualizations and dashboards as well as written and verbal communication
- Work closely with product managers, engineers, etc. to ensure that data insights are actually translated into concrete product improvements or actions
- Help determine the overall data strategy (potentially with help from data engineers and product managers)
Minimum Qualifications
- Technical university degree or equivalent knowledge
- 3 years of analytical work experience
- Experience with SQL and either R or Python
- Advanced knowledge of applied statistics (hypothesis testing, building predictive models, causal inference, etc.)
- Analytical work experience related to apps, web service, or digital ads
- Strong communication, logical thinking, and enthusiasm for new challenges
- Business-level English
Preferred Qualifications
- Business-level Japanese
- Experience managing/mentoring other data scientists
- Understanding of machine learning
- Basic understanding of data engineering tasks (e.g. data warehousing, model deployment, using data workflow tools like Azkaban or Airflow)
- Experience with big data (Hive, Spark, Presto, etc.) and SQL performance tuning
- Experience with Linux command line
