Data Scientist

Data Scientist - Target

About the role:

Target Data Sciences is offering an exciting opportunity to solve state of the art problems in retail. The opportunity will allow you to analyse large and varied data sets, build models on transactional, guest and media behaviour and write algorithms to improve guest (customer) and advertiser experience. In this role, you will have access to the best tech stack in retail along with working with a set of passionate co-workers committed to creating next gen MarTech capabilities. You can expect to be involved in:

• Learning and working on different aspects of MarTech

• Learning about the complex world of digital ad – tech and supporting Target’s advertising business by bringing state of art ad relevancy to life

• Creating large and automated data pipelines and documenting methods and outputs

• Exploring different approaches to solve a problem, testing the solutions, and reporting the results

• Implementing large scale and automated models and create dashboard to capture relevant metrics and determine errors

Example problem statements:

• Determine a set of optimal tactics to create media plan and manage inflight campaign performance?

• Given digital ad variations how do we optimize ad impressions?

• How do we set prices for digital product ad slots to achieve higher revenue?

• How to systematically scale and automate such decisions impacting millions of guests?

Expected skills:

• Data wrangling and pipelining skills using HiveQL, Python, Spark

• Ability to write modular code and data pipelines which can be automated and scaled

• Good programming skills in Python/ Scala/ Java

• Logical Reasoning Skills

• Indepth knowledge of Machine Learning

• Ability to work with a team(s) to drive the work in a collaborative environment

Preferred Educational background:

• Engineering graduates from reputed institutes with proficiency in coding and 1+ years of relevant experience

• MTech or MS (Statistics, Economics, CS, Mathematics)

Preferred domain experience: in enabling data driven solutions in marketing, marketing campaign management, digital media, measuring RoI on customer marketing campaigns, customer personalisation, behavioural models.

Why work with us at Target?

• We love open source

• We own years of transactional, guest, financial, inventory, many other operational datasets

• We offer top class growth and wellness structures

• We believe in continuous learning (50 days of learning with a variety of proprietary platforms!)

• Formal big box and online retailing industry is growing fast and poised to grow further