Lead Data Scientist
| Company | eBay |
|---|---|
| Location | San Jose, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA, Bellevue, WA, USA |
| Salary | $144000 – $227700 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Strong technical, analytical, and strategic strengths with a deep background in statistics, mathematics, and/or engineering
- Experience with data and analytical tools including R and Python
- Knowledge of statistics (e.g., multivariate statistics, predictive modeling, controlled test design)
- Ability to identify and take on critical projects, as well as lead multiple projects simultaneously in a dynamic, changing environment
- Intellectual curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and comfort with ambiguity
- Outstanding business judgment and quantitative analytic ability
- Proven track record of end to end analytics – problem definition, collating the required information, analyzing the results, synthesizing and presenting a compelling argument and influencing collaborators to act
Responsibilities
- Build close partnership with the business and product teams to Innovate, identify and Explore new analytics and operational opportunities
- Identify, quantify, prioritize, test, launch and supervise improvements in business initiatives, marketing programs, website experience or policy changes
- Provide thought leadership and recommendations to future business direction partnering with business and product teams
- Function as a liaison across multiple product or business domain teams and take ownership of driving analytics impact into cross-department initiatives
- Evaluate performance of tested features and programs and deliver final test results in a clear, concise and actionable manner
- Post-launch monitoring: measure performance of features and programs post launch and report back to product and business teams
- Communicate findings to partners, product management, business and product development teams
- Promote a self-serve analytics culture for the organization by educating partners on key reports, data, and interpretation standard processes
Preferred Qualifications
- BTech/BE/BS/BA degree (ideally in a quantitative field such in Engineering, Statistics, Applied Econometrics, Math, Physics, Computer Science, other related Core Sciences or equivalent) with 8+ years of experience in analytics and exposure to varied functions within analytics/finance OR Master’s degree in similar field/MBA and 6+ years of experience in analytics and exposure to varied functions within analytics/finance
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint skills and database query skills (e.g., Teradata SQL, SparkSQL)
- Experience with Hadoop/Hive/Python/R/R Shiny and Tableau, ideally in web analytics or at a leading management consulting, financial services or marketing company
- At least 1-2 years of experience as business partner to senior executives in a business unit within an organization, with proven results and exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytic impact
- Effective project leader who understands business problems and current business trends, responsible for improving financial and business performance
- Real-world problem-solving experience for business using Data Science and Machine Learning a plus