Data Scientist - Analytics - Media

Excellent opportunity to work in one of the largest media companies

Opportunity to set up things from scratch and grow in meritocratic set up

The Company :

Our client is an iconic media company providing wholesome entertainment through air, online, on ground, in shop and through its cinema.

The Role :

Based out of Mumbai, you will responsible to do hands on work to enhance the business portfolio for the client.

Some of your responsibilities would be :

- Be proactive and entrepreneurial in identifying new problems that can be solved through analytics

- Build intelligent systems such as recommendation engines to leverage the large amount of data

- Develop analytical models to solve business problems

- Use statistical techniques like segmentation and clustering to target the audience effectively

- Assist in identifying techniques and technology requirements to develop capabilities

The Successful Applicant :

- Masters or PhD degree in engineering, math, statistics or relevant quantitative discipline

- 4 to 7 years of experience in advanced analytics predictive analytics, statistical analytics, clustering, segmentation

- Proficiency in statistical programming tools (eg. R, SPSS, SAS) is a must

- Experience with big data platforms and tools (eg. Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Pig, Cassandra, Storm) is preferred but not mandatory

- Working knowledge of digital analytics tools like Site Catalyst, Web trends, Google analytics, Omniture is desired but not mandatory

- An excellent problem solver with research oriented approach

What's on Offer :

Excellent opportunity to work with a lucrative media company and set up analytics capability from scratch.