Lead/Senior Data Scientist (Product Analytics)
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
SmartNews
SmartNews strives to deliver quality information for our users through advanced algorithms and simple user interfaces.About SmartNews
SmartNews is a global leader in redefining information and news discovery, committed to providing users with accurate, timely information and supporting quality journalism. We combine the power of our unique machine-learning technology with the expertise of our first-rate editorial team to bring news that matters to millions of users from our over 3,000 global publishing partners.
Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, Japan, SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, and Singapore.
Responsibilities
- Deliver actionable insight to impact product and business enhancement. Inspire teams for product strategy and roadmap.
- Identify essential problems to solve or hypotheses to verify, collaborating with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, and business sides.
- Identify opportunities by exploratory analysis, impact size estimation, prioritization.
- Measure product/business progress, by defining/designing metrics , developing dashboard, and reporting to leaderships.
- Apply technical expertise with experiment design/analysis, effect evaluation for non-testable initiative, data wrangling and data visualization
- Organize learnings, knowledge, investigated data result to be efficient for future teams
Requirements
Required Experience
- 5 or more years of analytical work experience related to online service
- Advanced level SQL
- programming languages used for data analysis (Python, R, etc.)
- Prior experience working as a analytics lead with cross functional partners
- Expert knowledge of online experiment and statistics
- Advanced degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or analytical field
- Conversational or higher Japanese
- Business or higher English
Nice to Have Experience
- Experience with analysis of online media and contents
- Understanding of data engineering system (e.g. data warehousing, using data workflow tools like Azkaban or Airflow)
- Advanced knowledge on causal inference and mathematical modeling
Working Condition
- Office Location: Tokyo
Benefits
- Annual health check covered by the company
- Visa sponsorship and overseas relocation support available for eligible candidates
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