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Data Scientist, Growth Analytics

San Francisco Bay Area, US - Information Technology and Services, Internet

Data Scientist -- Growth Analytics at LinkedIn



Data Scientists on our team partner with product managers, engineers and a cross-functional team to drive LinkedIn membership growth and connectivity. We inform product strategy and product decisions by:

- Extracting and analyzing LinkedIn data to derive actionable insights.

- Formulating success metrics for completely novel products and creating dashboards/reports to monitor them.

- Designing and analyzing experiments to test new product ideas.

- Developing models and data-driven solutions that add material lift to principal performance metrics.



LinkedIn member data is amazingly rich and provides a fantastic opportunity for Data Scientists to explore and create, ultimately developing ways for members to improve their professional lives. You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the best data people anywhere in an environment which truly values data-driven decisions.



Required qualifications include:

- BS/MS in a quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, etc.

- 1+ years experience working with large amounts of real data with SQL (Teradata, Oracle, or MySQL) and R, or other statistical package.

- 1+ years work experience programming in Java or Python - Pig experience desired.

- Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment for automating processes with shell scripting.

- Able to translate business objectives into actionable analyses.

- Able to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences



Preferred Qualifications include:

- Experience with Consumer Internet products.

- Knowledge in one of the following areas is a strong plus: Viral Growth mechanisms, user acquisition in International markets, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

- Expertise in applied statistics, understanding of controlled experiments.



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