Junior Data Scientist

The Jr Data Scientist will help develop solutions for digital marketing use cases using statistical, data mining methods and data engineering solutions, working closely with our Analytics, Media Buying Account Management, Solutions Engineering, and Econometrics teams. The Jr Data Scientist should be on the right track to become a data specialist with a vision to have a solid background in digital marketing and strong experience in the deployment of propensity modeling, clustering analysis, churn analysis, product recommender systems and descriptive analytics. The candidate can expect to participate, with the support of senior members of the team, in all phases of internal research & development and client projects, including project definition, data discovery, data engineering, model development and/or data mining, evaluating options, and making recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.
• Use statistical analysis and machine learning libraries (R Stats, Python StatsModels, scikit-learn, etc.) to create models that quantify the influence of online activities on offline conversions.
• Deploy cloud resources (Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP or other) to perform analysis on large data sets.
• Assist the DS team to create ML pipelines models from data-wrangling to getting it into production.
• Utilize data visualization techniques to explain data and models to clients and internal teams (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, etc.).
• Mine data to support analytical projects and prepare data to support the development of information models to prove or disprove project hypotheses.
• Assist designing and managing experiments to ensure proper execution, data cleanliness, and statistical significance of results.
• Work closely with the Econometrics team in London and assist consultants on building the Marketing Mix and MTA modelling capacity in the region.

Required skills and qualifications

• BSc or MSc in a quantitative STEM subject such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Econometrics.
• Proven experience articulating, translating, and solving business problems through data.
• Familiarity working in a cloud platform such as GCP, Azure or AWS.
• 1+ years of experience in data science with a focus on digital marketing analytics, statistical modeling, machine learning for forecasting, classification and optimization.
• 1+ years of experience analyzing large data sets with the Python or R data ecosystem.
• 1+ years querying large databases (SQL, Snowflake, BigQuery or similar).
• 1+ years experience using Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar.
• Ability to explain the analytical methods and results to non-technical stakeholders to drive data-driven decision making.
• Willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
• Advanced German and English communication skills.
• Must have right to work in the EU as we cannot sponsor a Visa for this position.

Preferred qualifications

• 1+ years of experience leveraging digital analytics (Google/Adobe Analytics) and measurement solutions data in the digital advertising industry with client vertical experience including: retail, financial services/retail banking, insurance, telecommunications, automotive or CPG.
• A GCP, Azure or AWS certification such as GCP Professional Data Engineer, Azure Data certification, AWS Certified Machine Learning (or similar).

About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth. We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.