Data Scientist

Tokyo
Remote OK
Full-time
May 13, 2022

In SmartNews, growing with fast speed, various opportunities of data science exist. Decision making based on scientific analysis accelerates product and business growth with learning and improvement in try and error cycle processes. In improving user satisfaction and giving value to business stakeholders like publisher, advertiser, and agency etc., data science plays an important role.

We are seeking data scientist who have proactive mind in ambiguous environment and decent skill to deliver impactful actionable insight to product and business.

急成長を続けるSmartNewsにおいて、データ分析が貢献できる機会が数多くあります。科学的な手法による分析に基づいた意思決定は、学びから改善につなげていく試行錯誤の中でプロダクト/ビジネスの成長の大きな原動力になります。ユーザーの満足度を向上し、媒体社・広告主・広告代理店といったステークホルダーに対して価値を提供する上でも大きな役割を果たしています。SmartNewsでは、複雑な環境下でも積極的に行動し、影響力の高い洞察を届けるデータサイエンティストを求めています。

Responsibilities

Analyze data for one or more of the following areas:
- ad product development
- ad sales
- marketing
- mobile app UI/UX
- news/video content
- other product analyses
Proactively ideate analysis projects and prioritize them
Report data insights and predictions via visualizations and dashboards as well as written and verbal communication
Work closely with product managers, engineers, etc. to ensure that data insights are actually translated into concrete product improvements or actions
Help determine the overall data strategy (potentially with help from data engineers and product managers
下記の中で、一つ以上の分野でデータ分析を行う。
- 広告プロダクト開発
- 広告営業
- マーケティング
- モバイルアプリのUI/UX
- ニュースやビデオコンテンツ
- その他のプロダクト分析
ユーザーや広告主・媒体社満足度を上げ事業を成長させるために、プロダクトの戦略や仕様・機能を考え意思決定する上で必要なデータ分析を行う。
積極的に分析プロジェクトを考案し、優先順位をつける。データによる洞察をダッシュボードやチャートで可視化し、口頭・文面で説明する。
プロダクトマネージャーやエンジニアと協力し、データインサイトをプロダクト改善に繋げる。
会社全体のデータ戦略を、データエンジニアなどと議論しながら決定し、改善する。

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

Technical university degree or equivalent knowledge
3 years of analytical work experience
Experience with SQL and either R or Python
Advanced knowledge of applied statistics (hypothesis testing, building predictive models, causal inference, etc.)
Analytical work experience related to apps, web service, or ads
Strong communication, logical thinking, and enthusiasm for new challenges
Business-level English and Japanese

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing/mentoring other data scientists
Understanding of machine learning
Basic understanding of data engineering tasks (e.g. data warehousing, model deployment, using data workflow tools like Azkaban or Airflow)
Experience with big data (Hive, Spark, Presto, etc.) and SQL performance tuning
Experience with Linux command line

Benefits and Perks

SmartKitchen - Healthy lunch on a daily basis for free
ChikyuCoffee - Delicious coffee provided by our Barista every day
Event space - Free use for any kind of meet up
Foreign language development support
Various social insurance benefits included
Transportation coverage (Maximum 50,000 yen)

福利厚生

SmartKitchen - ランチカフェテリア無料
地球珈琲 - バリスタが淹れる本格珈琲無料
外国語学習の費用負担
各種社会保険
交通費支給 (上限5万円)

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About SmartNews

Recently crowned Japan's latest tech unicorn, this company runs a wildly successful news service that’s powered by machine learning. It's an engineering-focused company (One of co-founders is an engineer) and they have offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Shanghai, Beijing that are apparently doing quite well too.

The mission of SmartNews is to discover and deliver quality stories to the world. Since its inception in 2012, the SmartNews app has been downloaded over 50 million downloads and maintained a monthly active user count of over 20 million.

In addition to being one of the most popular smartphone apps in Japan, SmartNews has worked hard on building their business in the US. They now have partnerships with over 300 major news publications in the US like CBS, Entertainment Weekly, Business Insider, National Geographic and more. They’ve had a great deal of success due to their ML-based sorting and recommendation systems.

SmartNews has a highly diverse development team with many world-class engineers and others working from their offices in Japan,China and the US. They maintain a very strict hiring bar for technical hires and an engineering-driven culture that makes them one of the strongest tech companies in Japan when it comes to technical skill level.

SmartNews is looking to hire the best people regardless of background, so they’re willing to hire people that don’t speak Japanese and (under normal circumstances) bring them to Japan from overseas if necessary. Everyone works together as one team regardless of location, and SmartNews provides everything their employees need to do their best work and maintains a Silicon Valley-inspired culture for engineers in Tokyo.

SmartNews's policies during COVID-19 are as follows:

All interviews are being conducted remotely
Employees are working remotely following the government’s instructions
They've given everyone some monetary incentive to support working from home

Japanese Language Policy
We do not require Japanese language ability in the working environment. We have a language support program if employees want to learn Japanese.
Visa Sponsorship
We support candidates to get a working visa from the start to the end (for JP office joiners).
Paid Leave
Our holidays shall include Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and other days designated by the Company.

Annual paid holidays
- 4-10 days of paid holiday will be granted depending on the month in which you join the Company.
- From the second year and onwards, paid holidays will be granted according to the number of years of your employment on April 1st of each year. The number of days granted shall be set forth in the Work Rules.
Other leaves
- Summer holidays
- Year-end and year-beginning holidays
- Special leave for congratulation or condolence (marriage or immediate family death)
- Sick/Injured Child Care Leave
- Family nursing care leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
Benefits
☕️ ChikyuCoffee - Delicious coffee provided by our Barista every day

🍹 Free soft drinks

🌽 SmartKitchen - Healthy organic lunch on a daily basis for free at our cafeteria

👩‍🎓 Foreign language development support

💜 Various social insurance benefits included

🏥 Health insurance

📓 Free book rent from our library collections

🌎 Translation/interpretation support (EN<>JP)
Remote Work
We accept work from home policy during natural disasters and emergency situations. Our company’s working policy during the pandemic follows the government’s recommendations.
Work style
Our engineering and product teams follow the discretionary labor system to better collaborate with members in the US and China.
Diversity
We support diversity in various ways and those are not simply reflected in the quantitative goals.

We have employees with 18 different nationalities. Groups of small gatherings with similar interests are actively communicating across divisions, departments, and regions. We have monthly Global All Hands to share important notes from each region and be aligned globally.

All employees in SmartNews have different personal and professional backgrounds and experiences.
Parents and Family
We are supporting our employees in various ways to help them manage their work better with family care.

We have 10 annual paid leaves (for a child) for employees with children until they enter highschool.

Working from home is encouraged when their family needs care. Employees can freely invite their family to the Smart Kitchen (our corporate kitchen where free lunches are served).

During the working from home period because of the pandemic, employees with small children autonomously held some online sessions for their children such as reading fairy tales and mutual online babysittings.