Business Analysts

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that reaches hundreds of millions of people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

About Us

The Yahoo Taiwan Business Analytics team is seeking a dynamic data enthusiast and A/B testing aficionado with exceptional business acumen, strong analytical prowess, a track record of effectively communicating analytical insights, and extensive experience harnessing first-party big data. This role will primarily focus on TW media products and business analytics. Our team is dedicated to delivering rapid, precise, and actionable data to illuminate critical metrics and provide invaluable insights into Yahoo's users and products. Join us in shaping the future of data-driven decision-making at Yahoo.

About You

You are always curious, self-motivated, and eager to learn new domain knowledge. You are an out-of-the-box thinker, a believer in data-driven approaches, and a quick learner. You enjoy working with a strong cross-functional team of business leads, product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to develop the products consumers love.

 

You are objective-driven, fact-based, and impact-oriented. You always think positively, have a can-do attitude, and focus on “getting things done” with quality. You make those around you better and enjoy working collaboratively. You are responsible and always consider how your work can impact the broader organization.

Your Day

• Experimentation: Conduct the experimentation analytics to drive product design and revamping across the homepage, news, finance, sports, and other media properties in Taiwan. Establish best practices for A/B testing processes. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to develop research and experimentation programs for product development

• Business and product opportunity exploration: Support projects that drive key TW business initiatives and achieve strategic goals. Provide analytical support to the product department to identify and optimize opportunities for adjusting and improving existing advertising products

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional partner teams to conduct and drive action plans

Requirements:

• Pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Statistics, or a related technical field

• At least 1-2 years of data analytics experience, proficiency with SQL (BigQuery, Hive, Oracle SQL) and analytical tools (R, Python), ability to handle cloud databases, and skills in data visualization (Looker, Tableau)

• Over a year of end-to-end A/B testing experience, from hypothesis discussion to online experiment execution, data analysis, and providing conclusions and recommendations

• Fluency in Python, experience in statistical modeling, machine learning, and data mining on a web-scale, and familiarity with tools like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, or TensorFlow are a plus

• By applying to this position, you are required to be located in Taiwan

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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