Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Data Analyst - Trust Operations at AirBnB


Airbnb is one of the world’s largest marketplaces for unique, authentic places to stay and things to do, offering over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. An economic empowerment engine, Airbnb has helped millions of hospitality entrepreneurs monetize their spaces and their passions while keeping the financial benefits of tourism in their own communities. With more than half a billion guest arrivals to date, and accessible in 62 languages across 191 countries and regions, Airbnb promotes people-to-people connection, community and trust around the world.

Trust is the foundation of our global community, and we want the interactions between our hosts and guests to embody our community values.  But no global movement springs from any one individual - it takes an entire team united behind something big.

In the Analytics Job Family, you will provide data and statistical skills to help drive data-driven decisions and support operational initiatives. As an Operations Analyst, you will be responsible for building operational data visualizations, reporting on and performing statistical analysis to provide insights and recommendations.You will be working closely with the Senior Operations Analyst, your Specialization managers, Data Science, Risk Product and other stakeholders to provide feedback and improve our models and user experience that directly impact operational health.

Responsibilities

Maintain Subject Matter Expertise of your respective Specialization to take on operational core work or escalations when necessary.
Build Specialization-specific Operational dashboards to visualize data analysis and insights.
Perform statistical analysis to derive risk impact and recommend actionable next steps.
Develop an Analytics Framework in collaboration with Business Process Improvement and Operations Management.
Quarterly Planning and Roadmapping in collaboration with Operations Management and Product team.
Write monthly Specialization-specific performance reports; written reports should show methodology with detailed statistical analysis, summary of key findings, and recommendations.
Incubate, operationalize, and streamline Product launches; including Friction Optimization to improve user experience.
Review and approve query action tasks that mitigate risk.
Key Relationships

This role requires building and maintaining relationships with the following stakeholders, outside your Reporting line:

Data Science, Operations Leads, Senior Operations Analyst, Business Analytics
Policy, Quality, as potential Cross-functional Areas of Focus
Technical Skill Requirements

Proficient in SQL (or PrestoDB)
Expert at creating dashboards / data visualizations (Tableau preferred) and influencing senior leadership through data
Advanced Excel proficiency including but not limited to pivot tables, macros, charts, functions
Statistics familiarity or background
Python is always a plus!
Qualifications

6+ years experience, or 2+ years experience plus a relevant educational background (computer science, statistics, etc.)

[Contractor] Operations Analyst, Payment Fraud at AirBnB

In the Analytics Job Family, you will provide data and statistical skills to drive initiatives specific to your Specialization.

As the Operations Analyst, you will be responsible for building operational data visualizations, and performing statistical analysis to provide insights and recommendations.


You will be working closely with the Product Support and Operations Management Job Families and other stakeholders to provide feedback and improve our models and user experience.

In this role, you will be employed by a third party agency and will not be eligible for Airbnb employee benefits.


Responsibilities
Quality Control of Data queries / dashboards
Mentor Operations Analysts and Data Specialists
Support all Specializations


Key Relationships


This role requires building and maintaining relationships with the following stakeholders, outside your Reporting line:
Data Science, Operations Manager, Business Analytics
Policy, QI, as potential Cross-functional Areas of Focus*


*Cross-functional areas of focus formalize the subject matter expertise and points of contact needed for non-Ops supporting teams—to streamline communication, monitor business and tools, and to increase the capacity to which we make and push changes.





Professional Skill Requirements:
Solving problems: You quickly identify root causes as well as subtle, hidden issues. You use logic to propose effective solutions to a variety of problems. You dig deeper and utilize all available resources to reach the best possible solution. You utilize creativity to propose original solutions, and don't stop at the first, most obvious answers. You understand when cutting your losses is the best solution, and can explain why.
Taking initiative: You understand the importance of working hard, and you're willing to invest your energy into new challenges. If you see an opportunity to contribute or make things better, you take it—you don't wait around to be asked. You're comfortable acting with minimal planning, direction, and supervision. You can identify issues both within and outside of your immediate scope, and propose solutions.
Cultivating relationships You work harmoniously alongside other people. You're cooperative, and prioritize the team's success over your own. You understand the value of collaboration, and encourage teamwork. You build and maintain partnerships throughout the organization. You can effectively articulate and advocate for your own interests while remaining fair to everyone else. You are trusted and respected by the people who work with you, and have a visible and personal brand throughout the company. You are open and candid.


Technical Skill Requirements
Trained in SQL (Superset or PrestoDB)
Able to write advanced functional SQL queries
Able to easily create data visualizations
Good technical understanding of Payment fraud - data & engineering perspective.
Previous experience in building analytics models or working on risk engine models is a big plus.


Qualifications
Statistics familiarity or related education or background
You may have 7+ years of payments / payment fraud experience plus relevant education.
You must have strong influencing skills and be able to manage effectively in ambiguity.

Data Analyst - Trust Operations at AirBnB


Airbnb is one of the world’s largest marketplaces for unique, authentic places to stay and things to do, offering over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. An economic empowerment engine, Airbnb has helped millions of hospitality entrepreneurs monetize their spaces and their passions while keeping the financial benefits of tourism in their own communities. With more than half a billion guest arrivals to date, and accessible in 62 languages across 191 countries and regions, Airbnb promotes people-to-people connection, community and trust around the world.

Trust is the foundation of our global community, and we want the interactions between our hosts and guests to embody our community values.  But no global movement springs from any one individual - it takes an entire team united behind something big.

In the Analytics Job Family, you will provide data and statistical skills to help drive data-driven decisions and support operational initiatives. As an Operations Analyst, you will be responsible for building operational data visualizations, reporting on and performing statistical analysis to provide insights and recommendations.You will be working closely with the Senior Operations Analyst, your Specialization managers, Data Science, Risk Product and other stakeholders to provide feedback and improve our models and user experience that directly impact operational health.

Responsibilities

Maintain Subject Matter Expertise of your respective Specialization to take on operational core work or escalations when necessary.
Build Specialization-specific Operational dashboards to visualize data analysis and insights.
Perform statistical analysis to derive risk impact and recommend actionable next steps.
Develop an Analytics Framework in collaboration with Business Process Improvement and Operations Management.
Quarterly Planning and Roadmapping in collaboration with Operations Management and Product team.
Write monthly Specialization-specific performance reports; written reports should show methodology with detailed statistical analysis, summary of key findings, and recommendations.
Incubate, operationalize, and streamline Product launches; including Friction Optimization to improve user experience.
Review and approve query action tasks that mitigate risk.
Key Relationships

This role requires building and maintaining relationships with the following stakeholders, outside your Reporting line:

Data Science, Operations Leads, Senior Operations Analyst, Business Analytics
Policy, Quality, as potential Cross-functional Areas of Focus
Technical Skill Requirements

Proficient in SQL (or PrestoDB)
Expert at creating dashboards / data visualizations (Tableau preferred) and influencing senior leadership through data
Advanced Excel proficiency including but not limited to pivot tables, macros, charts, functions
Statistics familiarity or background
Python is always a plus!
Qualifications

6+ years experience, or 2+ years experience plus a relevant educational background (computer science, statistics, etc.)

Strategic Planning Specialist - The Good Food Institute

Strategic Planning SpecialistCoordinate the global strategy to transform the food system

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is at the forefront of the movement to use food technology and markets to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger to antibiotic resistance and the exploitation of billions of animals annually. 
How You Will Make a Difference 
In this role, you will provide high-level strategy and planning, coordination, and execution support to the Executive team and our international affiliates. This will include ensuring that global priorities are well-coordinated and communicated across the organization, the effectiveness of our strategies is evaluated using data, and any necessary course corrections are implemented. In addition, this role will add general project management capacity and technical support to the Executive team. For purposes of this job description, ‘priorities’ and ‘goals’ are generally synonymous with our Objectives, Key Results, and Actions (OKRA) framework. The Strategic Planning Specialist will be responsible for:
  • Supporting the Chief of Staff in improving the planning, revision, and execution of GFI’s global strategy and workstreams within the OKRA framework on a quarterly and annual basis by acting as a liaison across U.S. departments and international affiliates.
  • Collaborating with GFI departments to establish, track, and report on quantitative and qualitative metrics of progress toward organizational goals, including the development of effective proxy metrics for progress toward goals that cannot be measured directly.
  • Providing analytical support to the Executive department and international affiliates as well as back-up support to the Executive Team Assistant as needed.
  • Supporting GFI’s Global Committees by organizing meetings, taking and distributing meeting minutes, and overseeing follow-up with internal stakeholders within the OKRA framework.
  • Sharing feedback and making recommendations to GFI leadership highlighting key strategy learnings and opportunities for improvement.
  • Representing the Executive team on the Web Governance Committee as we create a new website, ensuring coordination with affiliate teams to ensure GFI’s global presence is appropriately communicated to our key external stakeholders.
  • Identifying gaps between the objectives of the US and affiliate strategic plans and execution, and providing real-time, actionable feedback and adjustments.
  • Identifying high-impact opportunities within the existing strategic plans and bringing them to the Executive team and international managing directors for consideration.
  • Serving as a Salesforce Super User for the Executive team, including participating in Salesforce reporting and assisting affiliates with data evaluation as needed.
  • Providing Asana project support and general training and guidance on the system to Executive Team and affiliate staff. 
  • Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor.
Who We’re Looking ForThe Strategic Planning Specialist must have:
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • A minimum of three years’ work experience in project management.
  • Demonstrated strategic planning and execution skills.
  • Exceptional research and analysis skills.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Interest in, functional understanding of, and ability to speak to both the business and science sides of GFI’s work.
  • Comfort working remotely and in a rapidly growing and evolving global organization.
  • Support for GFI’s philosophy and ability to professionally advocate for GFI’s positions.
The ideal candidate will also have:
  • Experience establishing and measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), especially within OKR (Objectives and Key Results) systems.
  • PMP certification.
  • Experience either working internationally or coordinating projects across multiple countries/regions.
We want the best people and we don’t want biases holding us back. We strongly encourage people of every color, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability to apply. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritize an inclusive climate absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team. 
The Fine Print
  • Terms of employment: Full-time, exempt
  • Reports to: Sanah Baig, Chief of Staff
  • Location: Remote; United States
  • Benefits: Working from home, full medical coverage, optional dental and vision packages, a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, flexible holiday and vacation plans, opportunity for advancement, respectful managers, and supportive colleagues.
  • This is a U.S.-based position: We are only able to consider applicants who are United States citizens or who already possess a United States Worker Visa. 
  • Salary: $53,000-$60,000
Source : 
The Good Food Institute 
https://www.gfi.org/jobs?gh_jid=4387509002&gh_src=153a68682 

Data Analyst, Google Pay

About the job

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you'll stay focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

As a Data Analyst, you are passionate about metrics, quantitative analytics, and analytical methods and tools. You will coordinate across functions to dissect business, product, growth, acquisition, retention, and operational metrics. You will take initiative to help leverage data, identify tactics, and define strategy. Additionally, you'll conduct analyses and gather data, requirements specification, processing, and final business recommendations, collaborating with Product teams to help build future looking business models. In this role, you will help us shape Tez, Google's payments product in India. Your work will help our leaders make strategic decisions. You will demonstrate and ability to handle multiple projects at a time, focusing on the details and finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.


The name Google came from ""googol,"" a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.






Responsibilities

Work with large, complex data sets to solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced analytical methods as needed.
Design effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information.
Drive visibility into business performance. Conduct regular metrics reviews, planning, and forecasting.






Minimum qualifications:
BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with databases, including SQL coding across standard commercial databases (e.g. Teradata, MySQL, etc.) and statistics tools including; R, SPSS, Python, MATLAB or similar.


Preferred qualifications:
Experience as a business/quantitative analyst in e-commerce or Payments and/or financial services.
Experience with one or more coding and/or scripting languages (e.g., Python, R, SQL, Stata, or MATLAB).
Ability to take initiative in an unstructured environment, demonstrating a bias towards action and high attention to detail.
Ability to communicate with a senior management.
Excellent business judgment, problem-solving, analytical, and leadership skills.
Excellent partnership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Quantitative Equity Analyst

retrieved from https://simplywall.st/careers/quantitative-equity-analyst-sydney

About us:
Simply Wall St is looking for an Quantitative Equity Analyst to join the Simply Wall St team and help us on the mission of transforming the way everyday people around the world invest, through empowering them to understand complicated financial data and make better, non-emotional decisions.

You’ll be managing and building the underlying financial analysis system that powers our research platform and News site.

Simply Wall St is a world-class product revolutionary in many ways – we use unique data visualizations and automation to make traditionally complex and complicated things simple and accessible. We are solving a very interesting problem in a very underserved space; the average retail investor massively underperforms the market but they really don't have to.

This is an opportunity to work at a well-funded, fast-growing Fintech startup with a global impact that is still in its early stage. We are growing really fast but the team is still very small – your work will directly impact every part of our product and will be used by millions of investors around the world every month.

This role would be best suited to somebody with equity research experience who also has programming knowledge for building analysis models.

Who are you?
Take some time to explore our product (including the News site!), if you get invited to an interview we expect you to know it inside out. We have an open source analysis model that also acts as an educational tool for our users.

We love suggestions on how we can improve our analysis, visualisations and user experience. How do you think our analysis system works? How would you improve it?

What are we looking for?
You’ve probably already figured our equity research system is entirely automated. The person for this role will be investigating and proposing improvements to our models, testing the improvements and finally implementing and monitoring them. Currently we have a company analysis model, an industry averages model and a portfolio analysis model. However as a startup this is constantly changing.

Traits you’ll need to excel in this role:

Understanding that the alpha in our models is user alpha (helping retail investors) and not financial alpha (although ideally these align)
Fast learner and quick to adapt
Take full responsibility for your work
Always asking why and questioning the status quo
Technically this might look like:

Excellent understanding of the equity markets with experience in equity analysis, fundamental analysis and strong understanding of valuation techniques;
Experienced in programming, although we aren’t particular about the language;
Experienced in building quantitative analysis models and handling large data sets;
An analytical mindset that can conceive innovative ways to discover insights from complex data;
Solid accounting knowledge, you can quickly dissect a balance sheet.
Bonus points given for:

Interesting side projects outside of work;
Knowledge of SQL or other data query methods;
Already having a portfolio of shares.
Why us?
Equity research is undergoing a huge shift and Simply Wall St is at the forefront of the technology changing how it will look, join us if you’d like to be part of that.

How to apply
Being a technical role, we ask you apply via our API like the rest of our developers:

Send an OPTIONS request to https://legacy.simplywall.st/careers
(If you haven't done this before, don't worry its quite straightforward)
Include some ideas on how we could improve our current analysis model

Monday, September 30, 2019

Social Media Marketing Manager

Job Description
Founded in 2008, Airbnb's mission is to create a world where people can belong through healthy travel that is local, authentic, diverse, inclusive and sustainable. Airbnb uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents to become hospitality entrepreneurs. Airbnb's accommodation marketplace provides access to 5+ million unique places to stay in more than 81,000 cities and 191 countries. With Experiences, Airbnb offers unprecedented access to local communities and interests through 15,000 unique, handcrafted activities run by hosts across 1,000+ cities around the world. Airbnb's people-to-people platform benefits all its stakeholders, including hosts, guests, employees and the communities in which it operates.
It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, and are passionate about the company and our values.
Reporting to the Senior Marketing Manager, APAC the Social Marketing Manager, APAC is responsible for driving the content strategy and framework for the regional and local social marketing team. This position requires a balance of social first creative thinking, writing, design and execution as well as superior stakeholder management. The person will have a perfect command of brand writing and storytelling that is centred on the community.
Responsibilities
Social content development
• Partner with key stakeholders to drive the establishment of the strategic approach to social media content that aligns with Airbnb's global vision and marketing plans, but is tailored to the regional/local business needs, culture, trends and platforms.
• Use your passion for social marketing and Airbnb to create content that aligns with our global marketing priorities.
• Ability to take globally created content frameworks and adapt them to regional and local nuances to ensure relevancy and engagement with audiences.
• Understand the consumer journey and have the ability to create content that is relevant at different stages.
• Develop and distribute content tailored to specific channels, understanding how different narratives can be brought to life on different platforms.
• Provide timely, relevant and engaging updates to the regional marketing teams around social content opportunities and performance; best practice; and country nuances to help amplify existing work whilst also demonstrating the value of social content.
• Drive and implement the creation of influencer marketing strategies and identify opportunities for further amplification of content created.
• Partner with internal and external resources, agencies, publishers, and producers, and involve the Airbnb community in a collaborative content production process to scale content capabilities and output. Cross-functional collaboration
• Work closely with key stakeholders across all geographies to ensure knowledge sharing and close collaboration between functions.
• Partner with global team members to implement strategy, content creation and publishing processes including
Summary
Cross-functional collaboration
• Work closely with key stakeholders across all geographies to ensure knowledge sharing and close collaboration between functions.
• Partner with global team members to implement strategy, content creation and publishing processes including collaboration, workflow, tools (CMS, analytics), and framework for localization.
• Identify further opportunities for collaboration that ladder up to strategic business priorities.
• Be the champion for trend spotting and social media innovation. Establish a strategy for driving innovation and adoption on emerging content and social platforms and tools across APAC to maximize business impact.
Team Management
• Directly manage and coach the Social Marketing Manager to ensure that their work is fulfilling and opportunities for growth are identified.
• Work closely with marketing managers in each market to create locally relevant content that ladders up to broader business goals.
Requirements
-10+ years experience in social marketing at an online travel related company as part of a marketing or comms team.
-An eye for detail and a quick wit — believing that typos, sounding robotic, and generic content is totally unacceptable.
•A passion for people and storytelling through multiple media types; 'community' isn't a marketing word to you —it's your core belief - and you know how to get the most out of it.
• Proactive self-starter who is comfortable in a fast moving, fluid environment.
• Hands-on and demonstrable experience of crafting and leading social media content, from initial brief through to implementation and iteration.
• High level of understanding of the social media universe, including experience with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest (and others), as well as social listening tools.
• Experience in social media analytics tools (including listening) and social media content management tools.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and work on multiple projects.
• Experience in influencer marketing is preferred. -Solid organisational skills, excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills, able to calmly and confidently communicate with all levels of the organization and with external parties.
• Experience working in a regional team as part of a global organisation and collaborating across multiple geographies.
• Fluent in English and preferably proficient in one other language for the region they serve.
• Passion for Airbnb, travel and possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and strong problem solving skills.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Unspoken : Power and politicking

Part I: Power
A famous philosopher, Plato, once said, “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”.

There are five bases of power, such as (i) coercive power, (ii) reward power, (iii) legitimate power, (iv) expert power, and (v) referent power (Robbins & Judge, 2013).

Coercive power derives from the fear of negative results due to failure to comply. It can appear in many forms, which includes infliction of physical and emotional pain, restriction of privileges, or controlling of basic psychological and safety needs. Coercive power does not necessarily be a downward influence, but it can take place laterally or upwards as well (Robbins & Judge, 2013). For example, if the subordinate has criminal evidence of his supervisor, the subordinate can coerce the supervisor into providing a promotion or salary increase without due cause.

Reward power, on the other hand, is the opposite of coercive power as reward power focuses on the ability to offer rewards, which often result in higher job satisfaction and improved job performance (Ward, 2001). Rewards can be tangible such as salary increases and bonuses, or intangible such as recognition, preferred work assignments and shifts (Goodwin, 2004; Robbins & Judge, 2013).

Legitimate power represents the formal authority based on the organisation’s structure hierarchy (Robbins & Judge, 2013). For legitimate power to take place, the target must believe that the powerholder has the authority or right to prescribe a specific behaviour (Carson et al., 1993).

Expert power derives from the perceived expertise, experience or knowledge of the powerholder (Humphreys et al., 2009). It is a form of personal power that comes from an individual’s unique abilities. For example, a Director of Food and Beverage depends on the expertise of the Executive Chef to design a new menu to attract new diners. Although the Director of Food and Beverage is the overall in-charge of the food and beverage operations, he may not have the expertise of creating new recipes or dishes for the restaurant. Expert power can also derive from past knowledge and experience of having done it before (Humphreys et al., 2009). Having such critical past information creates a dependency on the power holder to effectively achieve the goals.

Lastly, referent power refers to the influence of a powerholder due to his desirable resources or personal traits (Robbins & Judge, 2013). Referent powerholders frequently relies on charisma rather than authority or participation to influence (Yukl, 1989). As supported by Greenberg (2005), charismatic leaders are highly influential and inspire others to do things.

Interestingly, it is worthy to note that power and leadership are not the same (Goodwin, 2004). Power is different from leadership in three areas: (i) leadership requires a common goal while power requires dependency, (ii) leadership focuses on downwards influence while power can work laterally and upwards as well, and lastly, (iii) leadership focuses on styles while power focuses on techniques to gain compliance (Robbins & Judge, 2013). Furthermore, Goodwin (2004) explains that powerholders are not necessarily leaders, but leadership frequently implies power as they are characterised by asserting influence over the outcome.

As indicated by Robbins & Judge (2013), the most critical aspect of power is dependency, which is described as someone having to rely on another person for a unique type of support. This is further supported by Emerson (2007) who states that power is implicitly granted when there is dependence on the other. For example, in many organisations, promotions and salary increases are often dependent on the immediate supervisor’s approval. According to Robbins & Judge (2013), three factors create dependency, being the importance of the resource, the non-substitutability of the resource, and the scarcity of the resource. For example, although the General Manager of the hotel has the highest authority and legitimate power, he is also heavily dependent on the Hotel Manager to run the daily operations of the hotel in order for him to focus on the more strategic goals of the hotel. 

Secondly, when a resource is non-substitutable, the organisation will have a competitive advantage over the rest (Hillman et al., 2009). Lastly, the idea of scarcity can be drawn from the seminal work of Pfeffer & Salancik (1978). According to Pfeffer & Salancik (1978), the more critical and scarce the resources are, the more power and control the holder has over others. To counter the effect of dependency, Pfeffer & Salancik (1978) suggested two methods. Firstly, a person can buffer the dependency by developing a substitute as a replacement for the resource. Secondly, a person can consider diversification to reduce the reliance on the resource.


Part II: Politicking
With power, comes politics and everyone differ in their political skill (Robbins & Judge, 2013). As explained by Robbins & Judge (2013), political behaviour consists of activities that are not required as part of an individual’s formal role but attempts to use some form of power bases to influence decision making. In a research paper by Buchanan (2008), it was reported that most managers perceive political behaviour as necessary, and political tactics such as networking, making friends with power brokers, bending the rules and self-promotion were common. On the other hand, dysfunctional behaviours were also identified such as misinformation, spreading rumours and blackmailing were rare, but not unknown. Political behaviour can be influenced by individual factors, such as high Machiavellian personality, and organisational factors, such as role ambiguity, which could lead to higher politicking outcome (Biberman, 1985; Ham & Vonk, 2011; Robbins and Judge, 2013).

Robbins & Judge (2013) identified nine power tactics that can adopted to influence decision making being (i) rational persuasion, (ii) consultations, (iii) legitimacy, (iv) personal appeals, (v) ingratiation, (vi) inspirational appeals, (vii) coalitions, (viii) exchange, and (ix) pressure. Firstly, rational persuasion is the ability to present logical arguments and factual data to support a claim to be reasonable. Secondly, consultation involves the target in making joint decisions so as to get his buy-in in the idea. These two methods are the most effective if the target is highly committed to the outcome of the decision-making process. However, if the decision-making process is routine at best, legitimacy is often used to rely on one’s authority position. Within the nine tactics, there are softer approaches that appeal to the emotions of others. For example, personal appeal uses friendship or loyalty to ask for compliance whereby ingratiation uses praises and flattery to build rapport before making a request. Also, inspiration appeals stir the emotional aspect of the target’s needs, values and beliefs and coalition involves enlisting the help of others to persuade the target to give in. To add on, an exchange is another method that benefits the target in the exchange following a request. Lastly, the least effective method is pressure, which is to use threats and warnings to coerce the target, which could easily backfire due to the negative effect on employees’ satisfaction and commitment (Carson et al., 1993).

The outcome of political behaviour can be favourable with rewards or avoiding punishment, but for most people who have moderate or low political skills, they may be unwilling to play the political game. Based on research findings, it was concluded that perceptions of office politics could negatively affect job satisfaction, increased anxiety and stress for the employee, reduced in performance, and increase in turnover (Ferris et al., 1996). Eisenhardt & Bourgeois III (1988) further supported the claim that office politics can lead to communication barriers, creating inflexibilities, restricting information flow and consuming time. In addition, Ashforth & Lee (1990) also shared in their research that when employees see politics as a threat, they may display any of the 14 defensive behaviours such as (i) overconforming, (ii) passing the buck, (iii) playing dumb, (iv) depersonalising, (v) smoothing and stretching, (vi) stalling, (vii) buffing, (viii) playing safe, (ix) justifying, (x) scapegoating, (xi) misrepresenting, (xii) escalating commitment, (xiii) resisting change, and (xiv) protecting turf. These behaviours lead to the process of people attempting to control the impression of other through impression management techniques such as conformity, favours, excuses, apologies, self-promotion, enhancement, flattery and exemplification (Robbins & Judge, 2013).


Conclusion
In conclusion, power and politicking practices are common in the workplace but often unspoken. As the old saying goes, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king!”. Therefore, it is essential to identify the type of power base that one has in the organisation, before deciding which politicking method to adopt to achieve one’s goal in the company. Which of the above have you encountered in your workplace? (Which is a politically correct way of phrasing, “Which of the above methods have you cleverly or unscrupulously manipulated in your workplace?) – Just kidding. =P

-Richmond Kok
Hotelier by day, student by night

Monday, September 23, 2019

Manager, Yield, TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor is seeking an intellectually curious individual who is eager to dive into various advertising yield and optimization challenges in our digital advertising business. The Manager, Yield Strategy & Analytics will serve the Revenue Operations and Advertising Revenue teams through actionable intelligence, rigorous data management, and insightful data analysis. They will partner with internal stakeholders to provide data-driven recommendations to drive maximum revenue yield.
The Yield Strategy and Analytics team is tasked with growing gross and net revenue across TripAdvisor’s advertising business and passionate about using data to solve problems. The candidate will also work cross-functionally to drive profitability. This will include working with Operations, Product Management, and Sales on strategic initiatives, pricing new products to maximize gross and net revenue, and trend analysis to inform TripAdvisor’s product yield strategies.

What You’ll Do:
  • Develop yield solutions and recommendations to drive maximum revenue potential, specifically focused on the indirect display business
  • Define the product vision, strategy, and development roadmap for ad yield and data within TripAdvisor’s digital advertising business in collaboration with the Ad Operations, Ad Technology, and Programmatic Teams
  • Act as owner and decision-maker of programmatic yield optimizations, rate cards adjustments,and day-to-day programmatic revenue performance
  • Responsible for data reconciliation and quality assurance across direct and programmatic data sources, including the creation of necessary data requirements, policies, and processes to ensure automation, accuracy, and efficiencies
  • Develop quantitative analysis, ad hoc reports, models, and A/B tests to support advertising decisions
  • Maintain strong understanding of ad platforms, data sources, and revenue operations workflow, relying on these various inputs to develop data-driven recommendations for improving yield or operational efficiencies
  • Provide key business insights to leadership based on sales performance trends
  • Drive cross-company awareness and education of the outcomes and value from the Yield Strategy & Analytics team’s work
  • Partner with Business Development and Sales to develop & execute on innovative strategies for advertising clients as well as publisher partners
  • Manage deal economics, media allocation, and advertiser KPIs
  • Stay up-to-date and inform team on all new IAB and other industry standards
  • Develop client insights, reporting, and analysis to inform and execute new business and operational strategies
What You’ll Need:
  • BA/BS degree in Economics, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 to 8 years of digital advertising or yield experience
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to clearly synthesize large data sets
  • Proficiency in complexities of digital advertising marketplace, including both direct and programmatic channels
  • Experience with Excel, SQL queries, Google Analytics/Omniture, and business intelligence tools (Tableau, DOMO, Qlik, etc.)
  • Deep familiarity with ad-serving platforms (Google Ad Manager, FreeWheel, etc.) and order management systems (FatTail Adbook, Operative, etc.)
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Yield Manager AdTheorent

Position Overview:
As a Yield Manager, you will be responsible for the performance optimization of client campaigns, utilizing our technology platform in an RTB environment. A main goal is to develop a deep understanding of human behavior on devices to drive engagement and awareness with brands.
Responsibilities Include:
  • Become a subject matter expert in programmatic advertising
  • Combine data analysis and client feedback to execute and optimize advertising campaigns based on client objectives
  • Develop actionable insights and make recommendations to internal Sales and Account teams which will be communicated externally to clients and agencies
  • Work with Data Science team to gather trends and campaign specific insights to improve performance for campaigns and technology platform
  • Contribute to the development of best practices for Yield team (e.g.; campaign management and performance optimization)
  • Provide and monitor reporting on a frequent basis to ensure optimal delivery and performance of campaigns
Requirements:
  • 1-3 years of experience in online media, search, affiliate, or high-frequency trading
  • Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business, or four years experience in a quantitative role
  • Fluent in excel with a proven background of creative problem-solving techniques
  • Understanding of SQL and data extraction is a plus, willingness to learn is a must
  • Exceptional and proven skills to solve quantitative puzzles
  • Desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across departments
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and deadlines with strong attention to detail
  • High level knowledge of ad server technology, user-level data, media attribution, and general digital media tracking/data landscape
  • Working knowledge of campaign management via RTB and exchange environments is a major plus
  • Ability to learn and adapt in dynamic, high-growth environment
  • Experience in six sigma or statistical control processes is a plus
We offer full health coverage, generous PTO, great office culture.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Manager, Programmatic Operations and Yield, Cheddar

Cheddar is a live Post Cable Network focused on covering the most innovative products, technologies, and services transforming our lives. Our mission is to provide information and utility on the platforms that matter for our users. Cheddar has two live broadcast networks across many platforms, including Sling, DirecTV Now, and Samsung TVPlus.
In June 2019, Cheddar was acquired by Altice USA, which not only broadened our news portfolio to include News12 and i24, but it opened Cheddar up to a new world of data-driven advertising opportunities (via a4) across even more platforms including linear TV. Cheddar now has the ability to target specific household audiences across all screens. Cheddar’s team is growing, our products are diversifying, and infrastructure is becoming more complex - at an extremely fast pace.
Cheddar is seeking an experienced Manager to manage Cheddar’s ad operations business across all display and video ad channels: Cheddar’s O&O apps, our network OTT distribution partners, CheddarU’s DOOH on-campus network, RateMyProfessors.com, News12.com. The right candidate will be a versatile ad ops leader with experience with both the technical and yield optimization aspects of video ad serving, live SSAI executions, and exchange monetization (display and CTV environments). This individual is a self-starter, likes navigating ambiguity and solving puzzles and most importantly drives value for the business.
  • Works with all of the revenue channels both at AUSA and a4 to ensure that the post-sale processes are optimized and carried out efficiently and without error.
  • Manage partnerships with Display & OTT demand sources to increase automated selling opportunities across Cheddar’s distribution platforms
  • Support programmatic partner on-boarding and certification of new digital advertising products across platforms, devices and points of distribution for web, mobile web, mobile apps, and OTT products
  • Support maintenance of programmatic revenue model to forecast CPM and revenue delivery for financial budgeting and pacing
  • Assist with answering inbound sales requests
  • Maintain ad taxonomy, ad specs and one-sheeters
  • Develop and implement the processes needed to ensure that all customer campaigns and fulfilled, recognized and optimized.
  • Review escalated ad delivery issues, working with Cheddar & vendor teams to quickly resolve & minimize revenue impact
  • Stay abreast of changes in industry and where competitors are leading, and help establish Cheddar as a leader and innovator in video news
  • 3-5 years experience in digital ad operations at a publisher, ad tech company, ad agency or ad network
  • Experience with digital display and video inventory on all platforms web, mobile, app and OTT/ CTV platforms
  • Familiarity with live streaming DAI (SSAI)
  • Comprehension of digital video formats (VAST and VPAID)
  • Familiarity with DSPs, SSPs, Agency Trading Desks, and Private Marketplaces; understanding of best practices in monetizing ad revenue across partners/exchanges
  • Ability to initiate and maintain partner relationships, assess partnership viability and growth opportunities, & navigate deals
  • Previous experience partnering with or leading successful partnerships with RTB/exchanges
  • Experience with DFP/Freewheel and digital ad serving tools for video and display
  • Experience with the start-up culture or an organization experiencing rapid growth and diversification
  • High level of proficiency with Excel
  • Experience with workflow, contract mgmt, and reporting tools

Associate Manager, Programmatic Operations, CBS Interactive

REF#: 34284
CBS BUSINESS UNIT: CBS Interactive
JOB TYPE: Full-Time Staff
JOB SCHEDULE:
JOB LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
ABOUT US:
CBS Interactive is the premier online content network for information and online operations of CBS Corporation as well as some of the top native digital brands in the entertainment industry. Our brands dive deep into the things people care about across entertainment, technology, news, games, business and sports. With over 1 billion users visiting our properties every quarter, we are a global top 10 web property and one of the largest premium content networks online.

Check us out on [1] The Muse, [2] Instagram and [3] YouTube for an inside look into 'Life At CBSi' through employee testimonials, office photos and company updates.
References
Visible links
  • https://www.themuse.com/companies/cbsinteractive
  • https://www.instagram.com/cbsinteractive/?hl=en
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAvGapyifCtUlmNTagAl_sQ
DESCRIPTION:
Role Details:
CBS Interactive is looking for an energetic, self-motivated, and detail oriented Associate Partnerships Manager. As part of the Programmatic Revenue team, the Associate Manager will implement, analyze and optimize strategic partnerships to maximize revenue and effectiveness of several CBSi ad initiatives. This person will work closely with Ad Operations, Yield and Finance teams, and select vendors to drive the success of our ad display, video, native and mobile Programmatic Sales and Exchange program.
Your Day-to-Day:
  • Manage components of CBSi’s Exchange program utilizing strong analytical and account management skills, operations agility and strict attention to detail
  • Implementation and optimization of Exchange partners’ advertising initiatives
  • Programmatic deal creation, analysis, and reporting
  • Sales order management via use of Operative business management software
  • Ad trafficking and optimization of performance-based campaigns in Google Ad Manager/DFP ad server
  • Continuously work to improve efficiency and effectiveness of aforementioned programs
  • Provide back up support for other Programmatic team initiatives pertaining to the utilization of remnant online ad inventory
QUALIFICATIONS:
What you bring to the team:
You have -
  • 1-3+ years of experience in digital ad operations, digital marketing, or planning with a proven track record of developing and implementing display and/or digital marketing programs.
  • Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
  • Effective time management skills - ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
  • Expertise using Google GAM/DFP, Salesforce & Operative order systems.
  • Advanced MS Excel skills, knowledge of relational databases, SQL or R/Python a plus
  • Strong analytical/quantitative skills and the ability to draw insights from large datasets with minimal support
  • Ability to thrive in a small, intense, and high growth environment
  • Bachelor's degree relevant to this position required.
EEO STATEMENT:
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Programmatic Yield Manager, Dictionary.com

The Programmatic Yield Manager has a tremendous impact. Using out-of-the-box thinking and a consistent track record, this team member grows our business by continuously optimizing revenue yield and working closely with Dictionary.com’s strategic monetization partnerships.
Responsibilities
  • Continuously optimize ad stack, pricing and targeting strategies to maximize revenue for properties with over 70 million monthly uniques
  • Boldly experiment with price floor strategies and SSP inventory management
  • Determine best use of, test and optimize emerging programmatic ad products such as server and client header bidding, PWA and AMP platforms
  • Understand and react to market trends in an RTB environment
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to achieve maximum revenue optimizing ad layout (unit types and viewability) and integrate necessary ad tech solutions
  • Collaborate with strategic partners to identify and execute optimization opportunities
  • Work alongside leadership to develop our programmatic direct channel/business
  • Manage all aspects of ad operations within DFP, SSP and Header Bidding environments
  • Support our Finance team in monthly closing statements
Requirements
  • 2 years of ad operations, trafficking and programmatic experience
  • Experience with mobile web, app and international revenue operations
  • Understanding of DFP and top SSP environments required; understanding of header bidding landscape preferred
  • Proven track record of reaching and exceeding revenue goals
  • Experience in analytical tool sets, including Excel and Tableau
  • Comfort with presenting to partners
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Natural curiosity balanced with the ability to manage risks
  • Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a quantitative or technical field
Who We Are
Dictionary.com is committed to eliminating anxiety with the English language through simple, expertly crafted definitions, the perfect synonyms, and rich narratives about the intersection of words and culture. We are the leading digital source for everything related to words and their meanings, with 70 million monthly users and 100 million app installs. We believe words are core to the human experience, and as such, we’ve made it our mission to deliver the best dictionary and thesaurus imaginable to the largest audience possible.
The Dictionary.com team exudes energy and a passion for words and language and is driven to invest in the people and products that will propel Dictionary.com forward another 20+ years.

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Connections and Media Activation Manager (APAC) AirBnb

Airbnb’s marketing organization are storytellers, creators and relentless community champions, responsible for sharing the Airbnb love around the world by creating magical, memorable, shareable experiences that inspire and grow our community.
As a Connections & Media Activation Manager, APAC you will be able to see across all altitudes. You will be fundamental in visualising the impact that our holistic activity has on audiences. You will create Connections strategies and principles by which we operate, advise on the finer details of our plans and ultimately drive effectiveness and efficiency.
To do this will require close collaboration with teams across Airbnb as well with external agencies and media partners. Success in this role means crafting innovative strategies and delivering a cohesive consumer journey experience which will translate into brand and business impact.
What will be your key responsibilities?
  • Have end to end ownership of APAC campaigns from development of connections strategy through to tactical planning, execution and reporting
  • Create connections strategies and principles that are rooted in consumer insights and bring cohesiveness to the message and channel. Have a keen eye on best to leverage channels to enhance the creative story and influence asset and message creation
  • Create consumer journey ecosystems which tap into the best channels to deliver the optimal message at the right time
  • Manage planning decisions such as channel selection, investment allocation and KPI setting
  • Maintain excellence in activation and track holistic impact of campaign across all key metrics
  • Identify innovation opportunities and bring fresh thinking to ensure Airbnb is leveraging media in the most surprising and provocative ways
  • Foster an environment for cross-departmental collaboration by working effectively with Regional Marketing, Performance Marketing, Creative, Finance, Public Policy, and Comms teams
  • Drive valuable outputs from our media agency and have a close working relationship with our creative agency and media partners
Qualifications
  • Passion for travel and all things Airbnb. Experience hosting on the site is a huge plus.
  • 8+ years experience at interactive, advertising or media agencies and/or experience managing media planning/buying for a brand—preferably in the consumer internet space in travel, design, technology, or lifestyle brands.
  • Ability to lead plan development from beginning to end with little oversight. Must be able to think at a high altitude but also dive into the details.
  • In-depth knowledge of the efficacy of all media channels, with a proven track record in offline media along with social and digital media.
  • Deep understanding of market trends across APAC - hands on experience in Australia, India, Japan or S. Korea and plus.
  • Fluency with brand measurement metrics and analytics.
  • Ability to lead, influence and work across organizational boundaries with a track record of building excellent relationships with a broad range of peers and executives across global markets.

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Project Oxygen

Project Oxygen
Investigating why Managers Matter and what best Managers do

- Good Managers demonstrates 8 common behaviours
- 3 pitfalls to avoid
- Good management pays off.
Data on managers and Googlers how good managers have lower turnover, happier Googlers, and higher performing teams.

Methodolgy
People managers were grouped into quartiles based on Googlegeist and pref scores:
- High-scoring managers were thise in top quartile of both measures
- Low-scoring managers were those in the bottom quartile of both measures

To determine what our best managers do, 4 qualitative research data sources were used to identify patterns:
1. Googlegeist comments
2. Great Manager Award nominations
3. Performance reviews
4. Interviews with managers

8 Attributes of a High Scoring Manager :
Google manager behaviors 1 Is a good coach 2 Empowers team and does not micromanage 3 Expresses interest/concern for team members̢۪ success and personal well-being 4 Is productive and results-oriented 5 Is a good communicator 6 Helps with career development 
7 Has a clear vision/strategy for the team 8 Has important technical skills that help him/her advise the team 9 Collaborates across Google 10 Is a strong decision maker
1) Is a good Coach
2) Empowers the team and does not micromanage.
3) Expresses interest / concern for team members' success and person well-being
4) Is productive and results-oriented.
5) Is a good communicator - Listens and shares information
6) Helps with career development
7) Has a clear vision / strategy for the team
8) Has key technical skills that helps him or her to advice the team

Pitfalls : What cases a good manager to struggle ?
1) Has a tough transition (suddenly promoted, hired with little training)
2) Lacks a consistent philosophy / approach to performance management and career development
3) Spends too little time on managing and communicating

Payoffs to Good Managers behaviours
Googlers reporting to strong managers have lower turnover and score higher on Googlegeist.


















Data Analyst, Unskippable Labs, Google

Data Analyst, Unskippable Labs

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience in SQL, building dashboards, and automating analyses.
  • Experience with creative measurement tools (e.g., MMM, Nielsen NetEffect, Nielsen Catalina, Ipsos Connect, etc.)
  • Experience leading and working in cross-functional environments, across countries and cultures.
Preferred qualifications:
  • 5 years of experience in analytics and media measurement, testing creative and/or media strategies.
  • Experience in Media Measurement methodologies and testing solutions from external vendors. Experience in high productivity environments.
  • Ability to make strategic recommendations for video strategies and effectively managing multiple projects and stakeholders. Ability to present data in compelling simple ways, build dashboards, and automate on-going analyses and reporting.
  • Ability to effectively extract creative learnings. Excellent analytical, data visualization, and written and verbal presentation and communication skills.
  • Experience presenting to senior-level client. Experience in spreadsheet and presentation software. Understanding of digital landscape for brand marketers.

About the job

Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing business grow. Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.

Google’s Unskippable Labs identifies and activates opportunities for brands to make their ads work better. We use machine-learning, global experimentation, and meta-analysis of top campaigns to identify what makes ads most effective in order to share those best practices. We address complex brand video challenges and deliver unique insights, creative analyses, and audience targeting solutions to help brands maximize ad effectiveness.

As a Data Analyst, you will work closely with the Advertising Intelligence team to build and deliver data-driven solutions, deliver Ad Effectiveness reports, custom analyses, and diagnostic tools. You will learn about new data sets and make data accessible for the team through dashboards to present internally and externally. Additionally, you will demonstrate excellent business judgment and the ability to build structured processes and methodologies from scratch. You will comfortably navigate other global/regional teams who are working on creative/media effectiveness to unlock new opportunities and share learnings.

Our Global Clients & Agency Solutions team helps serve some of the world's largest brands. Our dedicated teams of marketing and advertising specialists use their unique skill sets to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age. We aspire to advise our clients on all aspects of their online business strategy. Using Google's broad range of products, we help our clients connect instantly and seamlessly with their audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Design new measurement methodologies/solutions to test creative experiments by leveraging Google and/or third-party solutions.
  • Analyze results from creative effectiveness research, combined with additional Google data, to provide insights and inform clients creative and media strategies and executions.
  • Extract data to develop creative effectiveness meta-learnings across critical industry verticals.
  • Ensure all client/team research deliverables are completed on time. Support the team in managing direct client relationships and help them use Google insights to drive their business.
  • Lead efforts to hack/combine Google's measurement tools to develop sharper creative effectiveness methodologies that provide deeper insights.

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Tough love and self discipline

Rule #4. PRACTICE TOUGH LOVE

The golden thread of a highly successful and meaningful life is self-discipline. Discipline allows you to do all those things you know in your heart you should do but never feel like doing. Without self-discipline, you will not set clear goals, manage your time effectively, treat people well, persist through the tough times, care for your health or think positive thoughts. 

I call the habit of self-discipline 'Tough Love' because getting tough with yourself is actually a very loving gesture. By being stricter with yourself, you will begin to live life more deliberately, on your own terms rather than simply reacting to life the way a leaf floating in a stream drifts according to the flow of the current on a particular day. 

As I teach in one of my seminars, the tougher you are on your-self, the easier life will be on you. The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality of your choices and decisions, ones that range from the career you choose to pursue, to the books you read, the time that you wake up every morning and the thoughts you think during the hours of your days. When you consistently flex your will-power by making those choices that you know are the right ones (rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life. Effective, fulfilled people do not spend their time doing what is most convenient and comfortable. They have the courage to listen to their hearts and to do the wise thing. This habit is what makes them great.

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do," remarked essayist and thinker E. M. Gray. 'They don't like doing them either, necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." 

The nineteenth-century English writer Thomas Henry Huxley arrived at a similar conclusion, noting: "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.' And Aristotle made this point of wisdom in yet another way:
'Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players, by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we come to be brave.'
Excerpt from Life lessons from the monk who sold his Ferrari

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Booking.com Media Campaign Analyst

Job Description
Note: This position is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We will cover your move and all the documents necessary for yourself or your family.
Booking.com is one of the leading digital advertisers in the world. We are currently looking for a Media Campaign Analyst to join Marketing Science Analytics. As a Campaign Analyst you are responsible for driving the measurement and optimization of the global digital media campaigns we run through DoubleClick, Youtube and Facebook. You will ensure campaigns are setup to measure marketing effectiveness and incremental ROI and are a driving, innovative force behind the performance optimization agenda.
To succeed and thrive in this position, you must love mining large data sets, to turn data into actionable insights that can drive the performance of our campaigns and communicate your findings to a broad range of stakeholders. You must have a solid understanding of statistics and experimental designs, A/B testing in particular, and enjoy thinking critically about complex problems. The majority of your time will be spent analyzing data to find new ways to improve the performance of our digital media campaigns.
We are looking for a team player with a self-starting approach. You must have gravitas and the ability to get things done. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in an exciting, fast growing and multicultural business.
B.Responsible
• Measurement and performance reporting of digital display and video campaigns running through various channels
• Mining and analyzing event-level campaign data to provide actionable insights in the drivers of incremental ROI
• Use A/B testing and a variety of alternative methodologies to measure marketing effectiveness, attribution, and ROI
• Advocate and communicate ways to optimize the performance of our campaigns working closely with different internal teams and departments
• Providing ad hoc analytical support to key stakeholders
B.Skilled
• A postgraduate degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Econometrics, Statistics, Mathematics or Data Science)
• Understand all components of experimental design from sampling to measuring the effect(s), hands-on experience with A/B testing in a commercial environment a plus
• 2-4 years of experience work with big data (Hadoop, Hive, BigQuery, SQL)
• 2-4 years of experience with statistical analyses in an applied setting (experience with R, Python and/or Spark is required)
• Ability to prioritize work according to business objectives, understanding the balance between effort and impact
• A strong eye for detail and an inquisitive mind, naturally being driven to continuously finding ways to improve the department's and your own performance
• A real team player with solutions-focus and entrepreneurial spirit
• Exceptional communication skills in spoken and written English
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple, competing for priorities simultaneously and deliver results under tight deadlines
• Professional experience in the digital media landscape is a plus