Experimentation Data Scientist

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia, make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.​

​Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). In Malaysia, where SEEK’s Asia HQ is located, we received four accolades at the TalentCorp Life at Work Awards 2023, including first runner-up for Best International Organisation and champion for Best CHRO. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Job Description

The Role

Working with highly motivated product teams and reporting within a dedicated team of Experimentation data scientists, you will be responsible for understanding the value drivers of our key global services/products, assessing their performance and identifying improvement opportunities through detailed analysis and the design, running and interpretation of experiments.

The ideal candidate is a phenomenal collaborator who has strong interpersonal and partner leadership skills. You are a self-starter who has a strong grasp of statistical concepts and the ability to succinctly explain those concepts to non-technical audiences.

Equally, you are comfortable in ambiguous situations and can resolve and apply appropriate analytical techniques and processes to problems.

As the leading employment marketplace in APAC, we believe we offer a unique value proposition to passionate candidates for a role of this nature: the product innovation and marketplace improvements that you help SEEK to measure and evaluate will translate to millions of additional people finding jobs that they otherwise may not have found. We believe few other companies offer the opportunity to make such a tangible and positive difference at this scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding Service/Product value drivers
• Develop knowledge of use cases, user behaviours & segmentation and service mechanics (algorithms and models) across our SEEK Group partner sites and countries
• Run experiments and support the improvement of the experiment framework
• Work with guidance from senior colleagues to devise techniques and frameworks to ensure automated algorithms optimisation (multi-arm bandits and similar)
• Assist in driving continuous improvement of experimentation framework in scale, languages, speed of experiment and quality of insight by choosing appropriate techniques (A/B testing, interleaving, Bayesian methods)
• Work with engineers to improve and automate data collection and testing framework
• Analyse experiments and drive product improvement
• Design experiments that appropriately address hypotheses and will lead to credible learning.
• Test hypotheses and analyse results, segmenting where required to surface insights from experiments
• Articulate findings and communicate recommendations back to the senior team and business collaborators

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

You are autonomous, intellectually curious and intrinsically motivated to solve ambiguous problems and drive to an outcome. You love a challenge, and appreciate working with inquisitive, motivated peers to make an impact.

• Background in Statistics and/or Data Science, or a team that makes meaningful use of these subject areas. (e.g. Bioinformatics)
• Experience in experimental design and research methodologies with a knowledge of hypothesis testing and associated statistical techniques. Experience with causal inference would be well regarded.
• Sophisticated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Developing (or demonstrating) the ability to translate and present data in a concise and important way to collaborators
• Proven track record to independently work with various collaborator groups – data science, engineering, business collaborators
• Experience working on large and sophisticated data sets
• Programming skills (Python, R, SQL or equivalent)
• Ability to work in projects with varying levels of ambiguity, and priorities that can change rapidly

Other Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Influencing and interpersonal skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the use of Agile practices
• An ability and motivation to ‘pitch in’ and do what needs to be done to get the right outcome in a small team

Additional Information

The Team

The Experimentation team focuses on building an experiment platform and assisting product teams understand the impact of innovation through experiments. The team is highly skilled and maintains a phenomenal reputation across the business.

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• Mature Work Environment & Culture
• Hybrid Work Mode
• Extended Employee Benefits

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.