CarDekho.com - Manager - Data Science

We are Hiring for Cardekho.com for Jaipur location.

About us : GirnarSoft, an ISO 9001 certified company, is a business value focused IT company working on offshore products and outsourced software development.

We have our market Leading Brand - Cardekho- which is ranked as #1 Auto portal in India with the other associated brands - Bikedekho-, - Pricedekho-, - Gaadi.com-, - Collegedekho-, and - Tyredekho- vying to enviously position themselves as well.

GirnarSoft has raised USD 50 Million with funding led by Hillhouse Capital with participation from Tybourne Capital and Sequoia Capital. Mr. Ratan Tata has also invested in us in his personal capacity. Our growth story has also been endorsed by HDFC bank.

In the last 7 years Girnarsoft has carved a niche in its business field, and is valued over $300+ Mn Dollars

We have ambitious growth plans: our vision is to be a Multi-Billion $ company by 2021, and are looking for astute professionals like you to lead us on to our success.

Girnarsoft is the brainchild of 2 IIT Engineer brothers, Mr. Amit Jain (CEO and Co-Founder) and Mr. Anurag Jain (COO and Co-Founder)

We are today a strength of 1400: with our determined growth plans our strength will almost double in the next year

Our management has a string of professionals from IITs, IIMs, XLRI, ISB and so on, with experience in top companies, both MNCs and Indian giants.

Job Description :

Manager - Data Scientist

Educational Qualification : Bachelors/ Masters/ PhD degree in Math, Computer Science, Information Systems, Machine Learning, Statistics, Econometric, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research or related technical degree

Relevant Experience :

- 3-5 years of work experience in a related position, as a data scientist or Statistician building predictive analytics solutions for various types of business problems

Competencies Required :

Functional Competencies :

Must have :

- Advanced knowledge of statistical techniques, machine learning algorithms, data mining, text mining

- Programming background and expertise in building models using at least one of the following languages : SAS, Python, R

- Strong story-telling & articulation skills ability to convert analytical output into clear, concise, and persuasive insights & recommendations for technical & non-technical audience

- Experience in handling big datasets (Structured or unstructured data). Ability to understand business problems and convert them to an optimal data strategy.

- Provide solutions but not limited to: Customer Segmentation & Targeting, Propensity Modelling, Churn Modelling, Lifetime Value Estimation, Forecasting, Recommender Systems, Modelling Response to Incentives, Marketing Mix Optimization, Price Optimization

- Should be able to conduct research and prototyping innovations; data and requirements gathering; solution scoping and architecture; consulting clients and client facing teams on advanced statistical and machine learning problems especially in the areas of marketing and designing experiments

Good to have :

- Proficiency in Text mining and NLP

- Experience working with big data platforms, like Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Spark, etc

- Prior experience in search, recommendation or similar problems