Data Analyst

Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
Full-time
May 22, 2024

About the role

We’re looking for someone to help lead the future of analytics at PayPay. This person will enable PayPay to get 1% better every day by developing data products and insights, partnering closely with business and product stakeholders to prioritize and execute on work, improve reporting, as well as drive results and process improvements. As a data analyst in the Product Division, you will utilize the vast amount of data generated from over 63 million users and 2.35 million stores to make the PayPay ecosystem more convenient and profitable. By increasing the number of users and usage frequency, you will have many opportunities to contribute to PayPay's growth and profitability.

The scope of the role will include (but not be limited to):

Working closely with product managers to understand reporting requirements, support data-driven decision making, and deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers
Proactively analyzing data to answer key questions for stakeholders or yourself, verifying independent ideas and examples from other companies that we are interested in, and making suggestions for product and function development/improvement
Designing/proposing product KPIs, creating dashboards, and monitoring relevant data
Creating/maintaining rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis, with reporting components from multiple data sources
Contributing to data-driven processes and initiatives (knowledge sharing, rule creation, introduction of new tools, stakeholder support and education, etc.), developing clear documentation and education materials, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement
Interacting cross-functionally with product, business planning, marketing, and sales analysts to share analytical knowledge and collaborate.
Designing/building data warehouses and data marts for the products we are responsible for, and making it easy for anyone to utilize product data.
Evangelizing a data-driven culture throughout the organization, improving experimental/test design, contributing to best practices, partnering with both stakeholders and data partners.

[Work environment] - BigQuery, LookerStudio, JupyterLab, GoogleAnalytics, dbt, GitHub

Required experience/skills (Need to have)

Work experience in data analysis (at least 3 years)
Experience generating data insights to understand/measure business goals, proactively applying analysis to identify business opportunities
Demonstrated experience building relationships with diverse stakeholders
English (business level)

Desirable experience/skills (Nice to have)

Experience within the payments, financial technology, or e-commerce space
Management experience in an analyst organization
Demonstrated experience solving ambiguous business problems and presenting complex subject matter to diverse audiences
Experience in spreading a data-driven culture within the company
Analysis experience using large-scale data
Experience building a data warehouse/data mart
Specialized knowledge about statistics (understanding correlation/causality, various tests, etc.)
A/B test design, validation, visualization, and reporting skills
Japanese (business level)

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About PayPay

PayPay, a fintech company that achieved more than 47M users within around 3 years since its launch in 2018 has hugely diversified employees who are from 40 different countries.

Our biggest competitor is "cash". We are seeking for people who can accept this challenge positively, brush up the product at a tremendous speed that other companies could never achieve, and who are passionate about promoting and spreading such a financial life platform in a short time along with professionalism.

PayPay’s policies during COVID-19 are as follows:

PayPay has been transitioning to remote work to ensure employees safety during the pandemic, and we’ll continue this even after it subsides.
While we’re open to considering engineers looking to relocate to Japan, travel restrictions have made it difficult to give a clear timeframe for relocation.
Until COVID-19 is settled and we're ready to issue visas, you can start working remotely from abroad.

Japanese Language Policy
At PayPay, there is a mixture of Japanese and English spoken. Around 80% of their product team’s discussions happen in English, and they have technical interpreters and translators on staff to facilitate any translation necessary. Some members can speak both English and Japanese, but some can only speak either English or Japanese.

PayPay doesn’t have an official shared language, but in practice English tends to be the primary language used for internal communications and technical discussions like code reviews.

Instead of requiring that everyone be able to speak a specific language, PayPay expects an ability to communicate with mutual respect and a drive to ensure that you’re understood. The product team values proactive communication highly.
Visa Sponsorship
PayPay sponsors visas for applicants from overseas.
Paid Leave
- Days Off: Saturdays and Sundays. National holidays. Year end holidays from December 29th to January 4th.
- Holidays: Annual paid leave, congratulatory or condolence leave, maternity leave and etc.
Benefits
🌎 Translation/interpretation support (EN<>JP)

🧡 Support for translation or other administrative tasks in Japanese

👍 Support from bilingual PIC for engineers

🇯🇵 Free Japanese lessons on company time

🏠 Work from home allowance (100,000JPY/year)

💻 PC and phone are given (based on the company’s regulations)

👩‍🎓 Training Program: We have various training programs for different kinds of needs

💜 Social security/insurance benefits included

💛 Defined contribution pension system (TBC)

🏥 Health insurance

🚃 Transportation coverage (up to ¥150,000/mo)
Engineer Interview Process
Engineering Jobs

1) Application Review (1-2 weeks)
We review your profile based on your submitted materials

2) Code challenge (online)
We send you a code challenge after reviewing your resume. Please be prepared to take code challenge after submitting your application! It takes at most 3-4 hours to complete

3) 1 - 3 Interviews (online)
You will have 1 to 3 interviews with our engineers and HR
Work style
PayPay has introduced a highly unique “Working From Anywhere at Anytime” (WFA) HR system.

They work fully remotely, so as long as you’re in Japan you can generally live and work from wherever you want. Of course, there may be times you’re asked to come to the office for teambuilding and other activities (typically 1-2 times a month).

This system enables members to receive salary and benefits relative to a world-class city and work with world-class peers without actually having to live in a city. By changing how people at PayPay work, the system aims to provide a stimulating environment that enables members to build an amazing product that’s beloved by its users.

※ Currently, remote work is limited to within Japan. There is no support for working from abroad at this time.

Work hours
- In principle, from 10:00am to 18:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m＋1 hour lunch break from 12pm to 13pm in principle)
  ※ We use super flextime system which do not set core hours and also we may have overtime work based on business needs.