Data Scientist

Newj
5 best things about this role:
- Being a part of India’s fastest-growing media-tech company
- Grow as an ‘intrapreneur’ by independently handling projects
- Own the vision of a particular product or set of products, including the goals and roadmaps for the team
- Collaborate on individual and shared creative projects
- Work on a range of deliverables by combining engineering, design, and data science to create strategies to reach these shared goals
Measures of success –
In three months:
- Achieve a clear understanding of the approach, process, expectations, and timelines.
- Work on complex digital data, analyze and convert it into measurable insights
- Work closely under the leadership of senior management on strategic projects
In six months:
- Drive and work closely with multiple teams and identify a relevant clear set of metrics that inform the success of products
In twelve months:
- Independently lead projects to build tech products for the future keeping in mind data integration, data-led research and emerging technologies.
Desired Skills and experience:
- Advanced degree in Statistics, Computer Science, or a relevant quantitative field
- Strong programming skills in Python using a deep learning framework (Tensorflow/PyTorch)
- Minimum 6 Years of experience in Data Science/Machine Learning role
- Proven track record of leveraging massive amounts of data to drive product innovation
- Deep statistical skills utilized in A/B testing, analyzing observational data, and modeling
- Experience with distributed analytic processing technologies (Spark, Presto, Hive)
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Deep product sense
Tasks you get to solve:
- Lead the design, analysis, and interpretation of experiments that shape decision-making around personalization algorithms
- Proactively perform data exploration to understand user behavior and identify opportunities for improving recommendation algorithms
- Drive innovation by developing new experimentation methodologies, statistical techniques, and causal-inference approaches that could sharpen our product decision-making process
To apply for this job please visit www.thenewj.com.
