Senior Data Analyst - Experimentation London, England
Job description
Whether we are looking to improve engagement in iPlayer or Sounds or to improve recommendations in News or Sport app, experimentation helps us make the right decisions for our users.
We are looking for a Data Analyst/Scientist passionate about experimentation to join our team. You will help us drive the experimentation culture across all products at the BBC. You are confident with statistical analysis, already use data to identify problems most worth solving for product teams, are capable of designing, deploying and analysing product experiments. You will join a diverse group of highly skilled data analysts, experimentation specialists and product teams that are passionate about driving innovation through scaling experimentation. You will champion experimental design and methodologies to the rest of the BBC, advance the underlying theory and methods we use, work within the platform to create tools to speed up analysis, as well as find new ways of applying experimentation in a machine learning setting. Above all, you will play a pivotal role in driving the experimentation culture throughout the company.
Main Responsibilities- Work closely with product and analytics teams to identify and solve problems through experimentation.
- Build, validate and help prioritise the roadmap of tests with data & insights.
- Apply experimental design principles to all briefs.
- Calculate and communicate baseline conversion rates, sample sizes, MDE, confidence levels and statistical power to product teams
- Monitor and validate data quality in running experiments.
- Create and communicate experimental findings to product teams and to wider BBC teams
- Work with the platforms team to improve the capability of the experimentation platform
- Gather, cultivate and research experimentation best practices
- Research new methods for experimentation
- Create our internal experimentation teaching material
- Help the BBC develop procedures for iterating fast while managing risks in a big data environment
- Build networks and communities around data informed product development
- Advocate the role of experimentation in helping the BBC become a data informed organization.
- A community builder, you take an active interest in developing others.
- An undergraduate or MSc degree in Statistics, Computer science or another quantitative field
- You have significant practical expertise in experimentation design and analysis methodologies
- Solid foundation in causal inference methodology and how to identify causal effects.
- Proficient in advanced analytics: statistical hypothesis testing and statistical modelling
- Comfortable working with large datasets and well versed in tools such as SQL, Python, R
- You have experience with proactively building relationships across organizational boundaries and with multiple stakeholders
- You are a strong communicator and can explain sophisticated topics in simple terms.
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Package Description
Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London, Salford or Glasgow - Hybrid Working
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
- Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
- Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
