Staff Data Scientist (team management opportunity)
Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the
boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional
tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this
always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.
Role Overview:
• Coupang Ads is the advertising platform team within Coupang. We are
a globally distributed team focused on delivering advertising solutions
for those that sell products on our platform. This includes display,
search, performance, brand and video ads offerings.
• The Coupang Ads Sales Strategy and Operations Data Science team is
responsible for developing innovative, data driven solutions to help
Coupang Demand teams deliver strong CX for customers and in return,
drive predictable revenue growth. We work closely with ads team,
leveraging a range of advertising customer, end user, ecommerce,
advertising, product and finance data to identify unique insights and
help accelerate our sales teams. We bring data together to generate
actionable insights, answer complex business questions, and help us
deepen our understanding of Customers and what it takes to drive
impact via our sales organisation.
• Build high performance ML based models and insight for the Coupang
Ads Demand team. You will be a thought partner to our sales, strategy,
operations, product and finance stakeholders and identify innovative
and scalable methods to unlock revenue from more advertisers.
• Strong business acumen with a deep understanding of key business
metrics and the ability to leverage data insights to drive growth and
achieve tangible business outcomes.
• Work with product, finance and engineering partners help identify and
answer important “why” questions related to seasonality, high impact
patterns that drive customer as well as sales team success. You will lead
efforts to structure ambiguous business challenges into actionable
plans, ensure that your team is producing consistently trustworthy and
high-quality technical outputs that influence the business and drive
data-driven decision-making.
• Communicate complex analytical findings and insights to both
technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Be a champion for building highly talented and diverse teams with an
inclusive culture.
• High value actions : Identifying factors across a range of factors
including customer profile, usage sophistication, ads performance, CX,
ROI, pricing and seasonality to identify high value actions that demand
teams can double down on to deliver customer ROI, improve retention
and accelerate revenue
• Seasonality and forecasting : design and maintain ecommerce, ad
revenue and season-specific forecasting models as a critical component
of the sales demand process. Leverage these to underpin proactive
sales motions by demand teams Assist with analyzing sales patterns to
identify trends and aid financial forecasting
• Segmentation: Develop new segmentation based on sales interactions
with customers (nudges, pitches, meetings, exchange of materials, etc.)
as well as customers’ adoption of recommendation, usage of ad
products, performance and churn; to ultimately provide greater insight
to sales teams and underpin efforts to align the way we are organized
to better address customer needs
• Insights and Metrics : deliver a set of Key Performance Indicators and
insights from models and analyses; share widely with product and
engineering teams to incorporate into existing and new product
features.
• A/B Testing : design, conduct, analyze and uncover insights from A/B
tests to inform and prioritize product iterations. Do this with statistical
rigor and perform cohort studies to answer “why?” on test result drivers
• Machine learning - Help improve and / or build Ads prediction and
recommendation models to drive positive value for business, advertiser
and consumers.
• Tell a Concise Story – At completion of Tests, build timely, compelling,
fact-based test recaps that strongly communicate the business ‘story’
behind the data and test outcomes.
Basic Qualifications:
• The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience as a Scientist &
Analyst performing ads data science, Experimentation, business
analysis, financial analysis, market research , and executive reporting.
• Ability to lead a team of Data scientists and/or data analysts
• Deep understanding of ML model performance and improving
accuracy to generate positive business outcomes
• Strong SQL
• Python (or R) for statistical analysis
• Hive, Presto, Airflow
• Excellent quantitative analysis skills
• Strong communication skills
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously for multiple
stakeholders in a fast-paced organization
Preferred Qualifications:
• Strong statistics background
• Machine Learning experience
• Previous experience in AdTech / Advertising (search, display, branding,
retargeting, social, streaming video...), Digital Marketing, Ad Agency, or
related domains.
• Data visualization (e.g., Tableau, Qlik, Looker, Power BI)
• PhD or Master's degree in a technical field
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