Data Scientist (Jixie)  

Are you ready to disrupt the online advertising market? We are Jixie, Kompas Gramedia's newest player in our growing tech ecosystem.

Jixie is a company helping online publishers to monetize better their advertising inventory by providing them solutions to optimize their in-stream and outstream yield through advertising tag optimization and advertising performance solutions. Jixie is working with the main online publishers in Indonesia, large advertisers and e-commerce platforms. To sustain its growth, Jixie is looking for a Data Scientist who will support the different departments with insights gained from analyzing company data.

The ideal candidate has strong experience using a variety of data mining/data analysis methods, building and implementing models, using/creating algorithms, creating/running simulations and implement in production. He/She must have a proven ability to drive business results with their data-based insights. The right candidate will have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in large data sets and working with stakeholders to improve business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to identify business opportunities for leveraging data to drive business decisions, and automate current processes;
• Mine and analyze data to drive optimization and improvement of product development;
• Assess the effectiveness of current processes and algorithms, define needs for data and data gathering techniques;
• Develop new models and algorithms to apply to datasets, mainly based on optimization techniques or predictive modelling;
• Be responsible of company A/B testing framework;
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyse model performance and data accuracy.

• Experienced in using statistical computer languages (Python, SQL, etc.) and data streaming format (recordIO) to manipulate large volumes of data, internal or external, experienced in creating data processing architectures;
• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques and their real world advantages/drawbacks;
• Experience with cloud solutions like AWS Sagemaker, Athena, Glue (Spark), or equivalent;
• Experience with BI tools (Google Data Studio, Quicksight, Tableau, etc.);
• Hungry to perform with persistence to deliver: project management and organizational multi-tasking;
• Always solving problem: strong aptitude to find solutions, forecast and anticipate outcomes;
• Connect & resolve: excellent communication skills with ability to understand needs and translate into action;
• Recommended 4+ years of experience, previous media advertising/performance advertising experience preferred.