Job Description
My client is a leading African multi-channel media, entertainment, and data company, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. As a technology marketplace, they creates jobs for "nano-creators/influencers" and celebrity personalities alike by connecting them to brands, creative agencies, research companies, and NGOs. Help brands maximize ROI on their marketing spend through a vast creators/influencers network, powered by a proprietary software platform.They are in need of a SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES.
- You will lead the analysis and insights generation process across the organization’s most important products and initiatives.
- Work on translating large datasets into actionable insights.
- You’ll perform data analysis, modelling, and hypothesis testing, A/B testing to steer the organization’s decision-making.
- Use data and insights to drive action from stakeholders.
- You’ll discover insights from the data and propose solutions to fix them or devise experiments to understand the issues better.
- You’ll contribute to the work of the data & product teams to better understand the user and product experiences, and use data to improve them.
- You’ll work with the business intelligence team to determine useful metrics that need to be tracked, and help to create stunning visualizations to disseminate the trends in the data.
JOB REQUIREMENT.
- 4+ years of experience in a similar data science role
- Minimum bachelor's degree in quantitative fields such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, and engineering (Master’s highly desirable).
- Demonstrated ability to perform detailed data analysis and guide strategy with findings.
- Advanced proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, R, SPSS
- Advanced proficiency in Excel is a given.
- Experience with data wrangling and cleaning of large datasets
- Advanced knowledge of statistical and machine learning techniques (regression, decision trees, clustering, neural networks, etc.)
- Some hands-on experience with writing SQL.
- Strong people skills, team orientation, and a professional attitude
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- A high level of commercial awareness is highly desirable.
Personal Attributes
- Agile and resilient with a good work ethic
- Possess the ability to work with a diverse group of individuals in a multicultural team in a professional and service-oriented manner
- Knowledge management and learning; Actively working towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more practice areas while applying newly acquired skills in day to day work.