Data Scientist II

The Search Analytics team is looking for a seasoned product analyst with great product intuition, intellectual curiosity and passion for using big data and insights to drive product and business decisions. The ideal candidate will have sound technical and analytical skills to analyze large data sets and extract actionable insights. The candidate will have excellent collaboration and communication skills to work with cross-functional teams and present insights to drive product innovations and user growth.

The Search Analytics team is part of Yahoo Research and Analytics organization and is responsible for use case and experimental analysis for Yahoo Search. We are passionate about data, insights and great product experiences. We provide data-driven insights to influence product and business decisions that drive user growth and product adoption. We drive logging standards for high quality data and accurate data measurements. We design, analyze and review A/B tests and deliver insights to build product experiences that users love.

Your Day

• Collaborate with product teams to understand business problems, frame the problem into questions that can be answered through data analysis, formulate analysis plans, analyze data and present actionable insights.

• Conduct ad-hoc data mining and statistical analysis to understand user behavior, user engagement and product performance and provide actionable insights to drive data-informed product and business decisions.

• Drive data logging and instrumentation standards to ensure data is captured with high quality and measurements are accurate. Deep dive into metric and data anomalies to identify the root cause.

• Work closely with product teams providing guidance on A/B test design and evaluation.

• Extract data using Big Query and Hive from large data systems, use analytical tools, apply statistical methods for data analysis and extract actionable insights.

• Create data visualizations and build Looker Dashboards to present insights to stakeholders.

• Communicate your findings effectively and efficiently with product partners and executives to drive product and business decisions.

• Drives the development and execution of measurement and reporting which accurately reflects business results and informs future decision making.

You Must Have

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in any quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, or Mathematics.

• 2+ years of experience analyzing large, multi-dimensional data sets and extracting insights into actionable solutions.

• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Big Query.

• Experience with programming languages such as Python or Perl.

• Experience with data analysis tools such as Google Data Studio, Looker, Excel, SQL, R.

• Ability to tell compelling, data-driven stories based on large, complex data sets.

• Identifying, quantifying and resolving data discrepancies to insure high-accuracy reporting.

• Experience with Experimentation Frameworks for A/B Testing and MultiVariate Testing, Test design and measurement.

• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and business acumen combined with ability to collect and organize data, analyze and formulate insights, present and deliver recommendations effectively to influence product and business decisions.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Curious and extremely passionate about data and insights.

• Highly motivated, self-starter results-driven and a team player.

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US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.

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