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Data Scientist
- Tokyo
- Partial Remote
- Full-time
- May 25, 2022
Help us make a big green dent in the universe. We're on a mission to drive the global renewable energy revolution, and we need loads more people to help us make our vision a reality.
About Octopus
Since 2015, Octopus has been on a mission to bring affordable, green energy to the world. With the help of our in-house developed technology platform, Kraken, we’ve become the 4th largest energy supplier in the UK, opened retailers in 5 other countries, and licensed our software to retail giants including E.ON in the UK and Origin Energy in Australia. We’ve reinvented energy products with smart, data driven tariffs to balance customer demand with renewable generation - and we’re the biggest investor in renewable generation in the UK. Our partnership with Tokyo Gas is bringing the Octopus magic to Japan, and we’re looking for a data scientist to join our Tokyo team.
Data science and analytics has been at the heart of Octopus’ success, driving insight across all facets of the business. We drive understanding of the performance and optimisation of operations teams. Our deep knowledge of the industry and the market allows us to design innovative smart tariffs. We crunch billions of data points to train machine learning models to forecast each customer’s usage. We do it by hiring clever, curious, and self-driven people, enabling them with modern data tools and giving them lots of autonomy.
Our data team consists of scientists and analysts in each of our retail businesses, and a global data engineering team to support them.
About the role
In Japan, we’re at the start of our mission, so you’ll get to work with every team and across the whole data lifecycle. To begin with, your focus will be building out analytics: reports and dashboards (and the data pipelines that feed them) to understand operations, sales and marketing. We’re proud of our analytics platform, and it’s the first time we’re expanding it to a new country, so you’ll help to define best practices for internationalisation. You’ll become a domain expert, supporting management’s questions, and most importantly, making sure the right questions are being asked.
As the business grows, you’ll need to forecast customer contact volumes and help the commercial team design innovative tariffs. As a Japanese speaker, you will become the ambassador in Japan for Octopus’ global data culture.
What you'll have
Our data stack
What you'll love about us
If this all sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.
At Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your race, gender identity, sexuality, age, family or civil status, disability, religion, or ethnicity.
About Kraken Technologies
Help Kraken use technology to make a big green dent in the universe! Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy and is built to empower businesses to lead the energy transition from generation to supply.
Kraken is a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, their operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.
They are now licensing Kraken to businesses in 17 countries around the world and manage over 300,000 energy assets.
Kraken's original goal was to have 100 million customers on the Kraken Platform by the year 2030. As Kraken is far ahead of schedule with 60 million accounts, they are bringing the end date forward to 2027!
Some of the businesses Kraken partner with include E.ON in Europe, Origin in Australia, and Tokyo Gas in Japan.
Kraken is looking to continue growing their Japanese operations to build more tech to make energy in Japan greener and increase their investment in service and growth in Japan and Globally.
To get an idea of what it’s like to work at Kraken, hear from Karim, one of Kraken's Engineers here.
