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Yahoo Holdings Inc. Data Scientist II in New York, New York
Yahoo Holdings Inc. seeks Data Scientist II in New York, NY.Job Duties: Analyze user needs and identify/prioritize the problems, pain points, and pleasure points (via Analytics, behaviors, clicks/conversions, funnels, etc.); build models to gain insights on what drives performance in terms of reach, retention, referral, and revenue growth; create dashboards and reports that provide analysis and commentary, explaining product, marketing, and business trends for executive reporting; inform and update executives and stakeholders on product performance, plans, and progress towards metrics; define data testing plans and create methodologies that help teams to iterate fast and release new features for testing and, if successful, rollout to all users globally; focus the product roadmap on achieving the metrics that matter and making ruthless decisions about what to do (and almost as importantly what not to do); generate and go deep on consumer insights and competitive intelligence to help teams drive product innovation and iteration; help teams understand/internalize consumer insights, choices, and preferences - and how these influence the product/testing roadmap to drive growth; build strong partnerships with product, design, engineering, and marketing teams and enable them to launch new growth initiatives for testing/iteration; provide feedback to product and engineering teams on impact of product launches: target launch metrics, a/b testing, post-launch metrics; distill all metrics from statistically significant deviations that will impact reach, retention, referral, and/or revenue metrics; Investigate data and monitor data quality- partner closely with and provide requirements to the data engineering teams that can be clearly acted upon; frame business problems into questions that can be answered through data analysis, and translate business needs into requirements; and design and lead time-sensitive strategic research projects involving methodology development, analysis, strategic recommendations and presentation of findings to senior management.Minimum Requirements: Master's (or foreign equivalent) degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, or a related field, and 2 years of experience in the job offered or as a Data Scientist, Business Analyst, or in a related/similar position.Special Skills: Experience therein to include 2 years performing data analysis, generating insights for consumer-focused companies, query optimization and data ETL, and machine learning including cluster analysis, neural networks, and predictive modeling; and using SQL/HIVE, statistical programming languages such as Python or R, and statistical techniques including correlation analysis, design of experimentation, linear and nonlinear regressions, logistic regression, sampling and resampling methods, time series, and longitudinal analysis.Telecommute role, may work remotely from anywhere in the US.Salary: $160,125.00 - $266,875.00 per year.Submit resume, specifying Req.# L23-142760 by email to: abby.jones@yahooinc.com.
Minimum Salary: 160,125 Maximum Salary: 266,875 Salary Unit: Yearly