ZAPR - Data Scientist/Statistician

Job Description :

The Lead Data Scientist will be responsible for understanding and deriving insights from the billions of data points collected by the ZAPR platform. ZAPR collects media viewership data across millions of users every single day.

The Data Scientist along with his team would be responsible for maintaining this raw data and for building models from scratch, using this data, to answer questions such as :

- Which people would be interested in a particular upcoming movie

- Which people are likely to be interested in a new TV show

- How many people are likely to watch the IPL game next week or the budget speech

- Which users fit a defined psychographic profile

- Infer demographic characteristics based on media consumption

- What are the various behavioral and psychographic buckets which work for our users

- What other data sets should we collect to better understand our users- How can we capture them

Candidate Background :

- The ideal candidate would have a degree in statistics, or a passion and expertise in statistical analysis and have spent several years working in areas such as predictive modeling, clustering, recommender systems, classification problems, forecasting and user profiling. They would be very comfortable working with massive unstructured data sets.

- A PhD is optional and at least a relevant Masters degree would be preferred.

- The candidate should also have a good working knowledge of big data platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig etc. The candidate is expected to be able to analyze data of the order of 10TB, and should have the ability to setup an appropriate data warehouse solution in order to do so.

- Candidates who have led a team of data scientists and analysts would be preferred. An interest in or a passion for the television, media and advertising industry will definitely be helpful.

- Expertise in recommendation systems, user profiling, predictive modeling and other machine learning algorithms.

- Expertise in statistical analysis and interpretation

- Ability to work with large data sets - 10TB

- Knowledge of statistical tools such as R, Python but also ability to work with very large datasets

- Ability to setup data warehousing solutions to meet analysis requirements (using Hadoop based tools / BI tools / RDS)

- Experience in working with big data platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig etc.

About ZAPR :

ZAPR (www.zapr.in) is a 3 year old startup looking to understand the media consumption preferences of billions of individuals. We have developed a proprietary audio content recognition technology that allows us to understand a person's offline media consumption, such as viewership on TV, radio, movies in theatre etc.

ZAPR is deployed across more than 10 million devices and is over 1000x larger than any other media consumption and audience measurement repository in India. We're a venture funded media-tech startup and are backed by VC investors from Singapore, Europe, US, as well as one of India's leading internet companies, and several iconic Indian angel investors.

ZAPR Media Labs in Bangalore is currently one of the industry's leading research facilities in ACR/media detection technologies, and we- re building some exciting technology platforms in the data analytics and ad-tech space. We are creating technology (from scratch) that can leverage our media consumption data and enable content owners and brands to identify, connect and engage with their target audiences across the offline (TV) and online (Mobile, Apps, Social) universe.

ZAPR's Culture :

- Everyone here is an entrepreneur and is committed to building something truly disruptive

- Our roles are flexible, and each of us defines what we wish to achieve and contribute

- Each goal we adopt is a stretch goal. We are never satisfied with anything easy

- Have an idea - share it, work on it, get it done. Suggest something outlandish and deliver

- Hours are flexible, but commitment to each other isn- t. We work hard because we want to

- We don- t care much for age or degrees, as we work together to build, create and innovate

- We are all students. We seek to continually learn, to be the best and to share our knowledge

- We have no doors - We are always available to each other, to help out and to have fun

ZAPR Location : Indiranagar, Bangalore

Compensation : Competitive with tier-1 industry standards