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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
英国に拠点を置くOctopus Energy Groupの一員であるKraken Technologiesは、Energy-Techを通じて世界のグリーンエネルギー革命を推進しています。私たちは、トップクラスのサービスを提供するため、最先端データを中心とした技術でKrakenを開発しました。Kraken Technologiesは現在、グリーンエネルギーへの世界的な移行をより早く、より手頃な価格で実現するために、変革をもたらすEnergy-Techを世界中に提供しています。
私たちは現在、世界中の企業にKraken Technologyのライセンスを提供しています。E.ON社とのパートナーシップを例に、Krakenがどのようにビジネスを進化させているかをご紹介します。移行が実際にどのように行われているかについては、こちらで詳しくご紹介しています。私たちの目標は、2030年までに1億人のお客様にKrakenプラットフォームをご利用いただくことです。また、最近ではオーストラリア最大のエネルギー会社であるOriginから5億ポンド以上（約749億円）の資金調達を完了しています。当社グループには、Octopus Energy, Octopus for Business, Kraken Technology, Octopus Electric Vehicles および Octopus Energy Servicesに加え、新しいネット・ゼロ・センターであるOctopus Centre for Net Zeroがあります。
今回、東京ガスから約200億円の出資を受けることが発表されたOctopus Energyは、私たちのミッションを実現するために日本市場に参入します。私たちは、日本のエネルギーをより環境に優しいものにするための、日本でスタートアップメンバーを募集しています。
