Data Scientist - Experimentation

Company Description

The SEEK Group  

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our unified purpose helps people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helps organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation. Find out more about us by visiting https://www.seek.com.au/about/.

‘This is SEEK’ 

At SEEK our biggest asset is our people, and we are proud of our community of valued, talented and diverse individuals who really know their stuff. Our culture statement, This is SEEK, is all about what makes SEEK unique and a little bit different. This is SEEK clearly outlines what we believe in and the attributes of our best people, which include:  

• Passion about SEEK and our customers  
• Great judgement and decision-making ability  
• Knowing their stuff – Professional and Leadership skills  
• Delivering great outcomes for SEEK.  

Find out more about This is SEEK and our how our culture comes to life by visiting: 

https://www.seek.com.au/workhttps://www.seek.com.au/work-for-seek/life-at-seek/?tracking=EMC-SAU-eDM-workforseekPD-16433for-seek/life-at-seek/.

Job Description

Why join us?  

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams, appreciate progressive industries, and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

The Role 

Working with highly motivated product teams and reporting within a dedicated team of Experimentation data scientists, you will be responsible for understanding the value drivers of our key global services/products, assessing their performance and identifying improvement opportunities through detailed analysis and the design, running and interpretation of experiments. 

The ideal candidate has a strong grasp of statistical concepts and the ability to succinctly explain those concepts to non-technical audiences. You are comfortable with data manipulation, building and maintaining data pipelines, and integrating with the experimentation platform. You have the ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams, leveraging their support to manage the end-to-end process of implementing and optimizing experiments. 

Equally, you are comfortable in ambiguous situations and can determine and apply appropriate analytical techniques and processes to problems.

As the leading employment marketplace in APAC, we believe we offer a unique value proposition to purpose-driven candidates for a role of this nature: the product innovation and marketplace improvements that you help SEEK to measure and evaluate will translate to millions of additional people finding jobs that they otherwise may not have found. We believe few other companies offer the opportunity to make such a tangible and positive difference at this scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding Service/Product value drivers 
• Develop knowledge of use cases, user behaviours & segmentation and service mechanics (algorithms and models) across our SEEK Group partner sites and countries 
• Run experiments and support the improvement of the experiment framework 
• Work with guidance from senior colleagues to devise techniques and frameworks to ensure automated algorithms optimisation (multi-arm bandits and similar) 
• Assist in driving continuous improvement of experimentation framework in scale, languages, speed of experiment and quality of insight by choosing appropriate techniques (A/B testing, interleaving, Bayesian methods) 
• Work with engineers to improve and automate data collection and testing framework 
• Analyse experiments and drive product improvement 
• Design experiments that appropriately address hypotheses and will lead to trustworthy learning.
• Test hypotheses and analyse results, segmenting where required to surface insights from experiments 
• Articulate findings and communicate recommendations back to the senior team and business stakeholders 

The Team 

The Experimentation team focuses on building an experiment platform and assisting product teams understand the impact of innovation through experiments.  The team is highly skilled and maintains a fantastic reputation across the business.

Qualifications

You are autonomous, intellectually curious and intrinsically motivated to solve ambiguous problems and drive to an outcome. You love a challenge, and appreciate working with smart, motivated peers to make an impact. 

• Background in Data Science, Engineering, Statistics or a discipline that makes substantial use of these disciplines. (e.g. Bioinformatics).
• Experience with data pipeline technologies, demonstrating the ability to design, implement, and maintain efficient and scalable data processing workflows.
• Strong Python and SQL skills are required, along with exposure to Databricks, PySpark, Airflow, and Kubernetes.
• Foundational knowledge of hypothesis testing and associated statistical techniques.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Developing (or demonstrating) the ability to translate and present data in a concise and meaningful way to stakeholders.
• Proven ability to independently work with various stakeholder groups – data science, engineering, business stakeholders.

Additional Information

• Influencing and interpersonal skills 
• Excellent organisational skills, including the use of Agile practices 
• An ability and motivation to ‘pitch in’ and do what needs to be done to get the right outcome in a small team