Sr. Statistician - AdKnowledge (Kansas City, MO)

Adknowledge Analytics Department provides a central lab for statistical analysis, machine learning, and distributed computing, to service business needs throughout the rest of our company for targeted consumer advertising. We have a mission to deliver high quality, timely analysis, distill real business insights from large data sets, and provide scalable analytics which the rest of the company consumes on demand. In addition, we assist on studies, metrics, data visualization, system architecture, etc., in other areas of our business.

Products and Technology

The company has a strong technology infrastructure, consisting wholly of proprietary code developed for the following functions:

• An advanced behavioral-targeting system running billions of calculations per day using consumer behaviors to predict what type of ad is most likely to trigger a response.
• An online pay-per-click marketplace located at www.bidsystem.com for advertisers to purchase ads from Adknowledge.
• A proprietary API known as AdStation, which allows publishers to insert targeted advertisements from Adknowledge into their unsold ad inventory.

To support these products the Adknowledge infrastructure consists of:

• 20 terabytes of data housed in Oracle, MySQL, and Netezza;
• 500+ Linux servers;
• LAMP based platform mixed with some C, C++, and Oracle
• A cloud running Hadoop, DHT, and other distributed services.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Our Statisticians at Adknowledge are instrumental in driving analytic changes with large implication for our company’s revenue. The Statisticiansprimary duties consist of:

• Development & Simulation: Design time-sensitive algorithms that engage advertising consumers with relevant behavior targeted technology in the online marketing industry. Design of experiments that compare alternate data groupings and methods. Analyze algorithms and data sets containing thousands of variables with billions of records.
• Solutions: Employ a large variety of simulation techniques that will convert computer algorithms and create analytic products that interact with real-time ad delivery systems and campaign selection systems.
• Troubleshoot: Analyze and troubleshoot our proprietary targeting system to ensure optimal revenue is attained.

Additional duties include: Collaborate with engineering/development teams to implement statistical systems.

CANDIDATE OVERVIEW

The successful candidate will be a vital addition to the team with at least:

Full details at:

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Professional Services Food Program Manager / Industrial Statistician (Beverly, MA)

Sensitech is the leading provider of cold chain visibility solutions that enable our customers, global leaders in Food and Pharmaceuticals, to track and monitor assets across the supply chain, protecting the quality, efficacy, and integrity of their temperature-sensitive products.

Our product portfolio includes comprehensive analytic services, enterprise software systems and validated data acquisition devices. We address our customers’ most complex perishable cold chain problems and deliver powerful insights that drive measurable process improvement.

Our solutions allow customers to increase profitability, deliver higher quality products, ensure consumer safety, comply with rigorous regulatory requirements and protect brand equity. In the past decade, Sensitech has protected over $250 billion of our customers' assets around the world.

Sensitech offers technical, customer and support services, and invests in ongoing research and development programs to enhance and expand our product offerings and services. We’re on the cutting edge of cold chain management, continuously developing innovative solutions to better protect your perishables. We’re also expanding beyond traditional condition monitoring to include track and trace solutions, a combination of services we refer to as Cold Chain Visibility.

Qualified candidates should apply on-line at www.sensitech.com.

BASIC PURPOSE:

This position is responsible for managing activities related to data analysis and reporting for European-based programs that help companies involved in the manufacture or distribution of temperature sensitive food products to monitor and continuously improve their temperature controlled supply chains. This involves data analysis, information visualization, project management and report writing. This position will work closely with European based Program Managers. It also involves working with a cross functional team based in Europe, South America and North America; which includes data analysts, project managers, industrial engineers, food scientists and field technicians.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Manage databases, analyze data and create reports. Provide expertise and training in industrial statistics to other team members
• Manage European projects and programs that require or will benefit from headquarters support especially in regard to data analysis, information visualization and report writing
• Facilitate the flow of information between our Europe-based and US-based Professional Services team members
• Act as advocate and first point of contact for European Professional Services team members in the corporate office

Full details at www.datashaping.com/jobs18341x.shtml

Director of Research - JustAnswer.com (San Francisco, CA)

What if your work in algorithm development could help save lives? At JustAnswer, it could! We're the largest paid question and answer platform, where thousands of Doctors, Lawyers, Veterinarians, Mechanics, and other Experts answer questions 24/7. Have a strange headache in the middle of the night? Ask a Health Expert on JustAnswer.com. Have a legal dispute with a neighbor? Check in with a Legal Expert. You get the idea! Since we're all about Questions & Answers, here are the details on this opportunity in Q&A Form: Q: What's the JustAnswer story? A: JustAnswer is a fast growing, top 200 website (quantcast.com/justanswer.com) started in 2003 by Internet entrepreneur Andy Kurtzig. You can learn more about how the company got started and what we do at JustAnswer.com/about-us.aspx Q: What's the difference between JustAnswer and the free answer sites? A: When you ask a serious question on the free answer sites, you often get an answer from a teenager. When you ask on JustAnswer, you get Experts. Who would you trust with your health related questions? What about taxes? Or, anything else that's important to you. Q: What do Customers think of JustAnswer? A: Check out www.justanswer.com/help/testimonials.aspx to see some customer testimonials. Q: What are the day-to-day responsibilities for this role? A: As the Director of Research at JustAnswer, you will be responsible for working with our engineering team on cutting edge research across a wide range of areas, including algorithm development, personalization, machine learning, data mining, statistical analysis and natural language processing. This is a new role in our organization, which means you’ll have the opportunity to build the function from the ground-up!

Q: What is JustAnswer looking for in the ideal candidate? A: To be successful in this role, you'll need at least 2 years (5-10+ years preferably) of commercial experience analyzing search relevance data and developing personalization systems, algorithm development, data mining, NLP or machine learning. You'll also need to be passionate about developing creative solutions to some of the web’s toughest and biggest challenges. Advanced degree (Masters required, PhD preferred) in data mining, statistics, machine learning or related field (or the equivalent combination of education and experience). Q: What kind of person is successful at JustAnswer? A: Someone who is *Smart*, *Fun* and *Gets Things Done* Q: What's the Salary? A: Depends on your experience, but it'll be a competitive rate. And, you get stock options, health insurance, dental insurance, and many other really cool perks!

To Apply: www.datashaping.com/jobs18331x.shtml

Director, Internet Marketing (Wichita, KS)

Director, Internet Marketing ( Lead Generation Specialist ).

The Director of Internet Marketing is a brand new position and reports into the Chief Internet Officer. The primary responsibilities will be to envision, build and execute winning marketing and sales strategies for the company's products and services via the web. This executive will work very closely with the Chief Internet Officer and as a key member of the executive team, and will be the main driver of the overall online presence.

Primary Role: Fully responsible for development, design, and implementation of multiple nationwide Internet marketing plans and strategies, which includes, but is not limited to organic search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, pay-per-placement (PPP) campaigns, lead generators, content development and optimization, search engine marketing (SEM), and online press releases. Manage and direct all PPC campaigns and Affiliate accounts, SEO/SEM strategies, website content/layout/usability, and any other Internet marketing campaigns. Analyze and review website traffic metrics and ROI. Research and recommend new SEO/SEM strategies, Internet marketing and advertising technologies, and current internet trends. Knowledge and skills:

• An innovative, driven e-commerce executive with demonstrated recent, relevant success in similar roles.
• A minimum of 10+ years experience in web strategy and e-commerce management; in addition to other related marketing, direct marketing or sales experience.
• Success in online businesses that sell and market to Consumers or other volume markets.
• Creative leadership capabilities to drive a world-class e-commerce site that produces high-growth results.
• Passionate about E-Commerce and building volume businesses in under served markets.
• Success in at least one venture backed start-up in an executive role.
• Ability to architect and implement an overarching e-commerce strategy and that supports the company’s growth objectives.
• International experience is strongly desired.
• Superior abilities in presenting and evangelizing to audiences of all sizes, from one on one to large groups.
• Adept at business and financial management, ideally has run a P & L.
• A proven leader, adept at being a player/coach of small efficient teams.
• Evolve the company's overall web persona to be a more action-oriented, leading edge user experience driving increased interactivity.
• Develop a system of web-metrics reports that give the management team insight into all aspects of the e-commerce business and the best mechanisms to drive growth.
• Develop comprehensive, multi-channel strategies for growing online sales, domestically and internationally.
• Employ Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to grow the e-commerce business.
• Create streamlined methods to quickly integrate Lead Generators into the inbound and outbound traffic.
• Drive growth for new traffic, active users, subscribers and conversions through innovative and compelling initiatives, promotions and campaigns.
• Identify and implement growth strategies and establish awareness building programs that will ensure growth for the e-commerce business.
• Smart, analytical, high-energy executive. Highly Customer-focused, natural leader with transparent management style. Can-do, pragmatic, roll-up-the-sleeves, strong creative instincts, fresh ideas, action-oriented and disciplined. No politics. Strong overall business acumen and abilities; executive team contributor. Hard worker, driven – capable of working long hours.
• Demonstrated track-record of having built and sustained deep and credible professional relationships with peers, subordinates, superiors, customers, partners, vendors, etc. Leads by example.

To apply: http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18323x.shtml

Advertising analytics consultant (San Jose, CA)

Position: 6+ months (C2H) . One of direct client is looking for consultant who will be responsible for:

• Identifying key words and working with Ad Units
• Performing Data Analysis and identify quality signals
• Use the quality signals to develop a model that will help in calculation of quality scores for each ad unit
• Develop algorithms to calculate quality scores by assigning numeric weight for each quality signal.

Ideal candidate will have:

• Solid theoretical background the statistics and mathematical modeling
• Experience in Advertising analytics and data analytics
• Expertise in Data Mining
• Experience in working with very large datasets
• Experience in internet advertising and PPC models
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment by being a creative self starter

To apply: http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18322x.shtml

Forensic Analysis Mgr, SIU - Travelers (Hartford, CT)

Summary:

• Responsible for the management and development of a highly technical and analytical SIU staff in the development of new capabilities and finding business solutions through the use of technology and analytical techniques.
• Provide leadership in the development of logistic regression modeling and analytics that aids in the identification of insurance fraud.
• Plans at an operational level and manages the effective use of resources. Directs assigned applications systems analysis staff to develop, implement and/or maintain a medium system or multiple smaller systems and/or assigned project(s).

Primary Duties:

• Directly manages a staff of 8-10 direct reports.
• Demonstrates sound analytical and diagnostic skills in the movement of very large data sets that must be further manipulated to support a hypothesis. Once decisions are made, is able to follow the management plan and direct action to implement intended results.
• Creates an atmosphere where business partner's issues are seeking creative solutions to their business objectives. Suggests solutions that make sense and optimize the value of technical and analytical resources.
• Analyzes results to determine how Investigative Services can expand our ability to impact business partners results.
• Possesses the ability to break down a problem down to manageable pieces and implements effective, timely solutions. Takes input from several sources, decides if all the information needed is available and moves to a decision.
• Knowledge of project management skills and the ability to set priorities that optimizes resources while meeting timelines.
• Demonstrates an ability to set direction, generate a sense of purpose, and inspire others to work in an optimum manner to achieve desired outcomes.
• Builds relationships with peers to achieve objectives. Builds relationships with other departments to work as one team. Builds relationships to secure necessary resources not under his/her personal control. Works effectively with all levels. Balances team and individual responsibilities.
• Responsible for identifying, recruiting, interviewing, hiring, orientation, deployment and re-deployment of a diverse staff to maximize efficiency and performance.
• Provides constructive feedback; coaches and manages performance of staff; takes disciplinary action when necessary.
• Researches/analyzes industry trends and best practices across the country and applies this knowledge to achieve or maximize results.
• Markets Investigative Services to business partners within and outside of Claim.
• Responsible for the ongoing evaluation of the units operation, its performance and effectiveness.
• Develops a portion of an overall divisional budget, subject to review, and is responsible for cost-effective expense control for assigned units.

Qualifications, Requisite Skills, and Competencies

• Work Experience Background: Advanced knowledge of analytical methodologies, investigative techniques, insurance and claim operations (e.g., Commercial, Personal, Workers' Compensation insurance products or litigation management). Experience in managing and developing of a highly technical staff required. Medical fraud experience strongly desired.
• Educational Background: Minimum 4-year college degree required. Prefer college degree with additional law enforcement, insurance claim or research focused experience.
• Investigative and Analytical Skills: Logical and sequential thinker; evaluates alternative courses of action; ability to assess situations and make reliable decisions with limited information. Ability to identify relationships between facts and circumstances, objectively evaluate the pros, cons, and implications of various courses of action.
• Technical Skills: Highly proficient in SAS statistical analysis. Computer, database, and Internet proficient. Ability to self-teach new and emerging work-related technological advances. Knowledge of available resources (internal and external) to assist in investigations. Displays initiative and innovation to find what is needed.
• Influencing Skills: Ability to present arguments logically and tactfully when influencing a course of action to gain support. Ability to present a variety of options, and anticipate and plan for objections. Ability to work for mutually acceptable solutions that benefit all parties involved.
• Flexibility, Organizational and Time Management Skills: Ability to remain open minded and change opinions on the basis of new information. Make transitions easily from task to task; change focus quickly as demands change. Adept at developing and maintaining a written diary or record keeping system to manage individual projects and achieve results.
• Communication Skills: Ability to read and interpret complex information and explain it to others; listen actively; stay focused; identify hidden messages and draw out underlying issues. Adept presentation skills that tail the communications to situations and audiences. Ability to communicate simple to complex written information clearly and concisely in formal and informal documents to convey the right message.
• Familiarity with fair claim practices, tort law and legal terminology.

Performance Measured By

• Quality, Logic and Thoroughness of Analysis
• Timeliness of Analysis
• Customer Service
• Workload Management
• Communication Skills

To apply: http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18321x.shtml

Director of Data Analytics - SpeedDate (San Francisco, CA)

SpeedDate.com is searching for a Director of Data Analytics. SpeedDate.com is a venture-backed online dating startup in Silicon Valley that allows users to join 3-minute speed dating sessions from home using live chat technology. Since we launched just over two years ago, weâ??ve amassed a large amount of data from our user population. For instance, SpeedDateâ??s millions of members have gone on over 63M online SpeedDates and sent over 100M digital â??winksâ?? through our site and Facebook/iPhone applications. Weâ??re looking for someone who is excited about digging into our data to come up with ways to enhance user experience and directly impact our business goals. This is a rare opportunity to use your advanced analysis skills on mounds of data, while simultaneously getting in on the ground floor of a growing startup. We view the Senior Data Analyst role as a key position to achieving our goal of becoming the largest and best dating service.

Responsibilities

• Generate tons of ideas for transforming SpeedDateâ??s data into practical product and marketing initiatives
• Conduct research projects using techniques from statistics, machine learning, and data mining to gain insights into improving user experience and achieving business goals
• Manipulate large volumes of both internal and external data
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical colleagues
• Transform data analysis conclusions into actionable initiatives including predictive models, marketing recommendations, algorithm enhancements, and beyond
• Work closely with engineers and product/marketing managers to get your ideas into production

Desired experience and expertise

• 5+ years in data analytics / business intelligence / database marketing
• Excellent understanding of statistics, regression analysis, machine learning, and other predictive modeling techniques
• Interest in any and all of the following subjects: matchmaking/recommendation systems, search, spam detection, social network analysis, segmentation, conversion rate optimization, lifetime value, retention analysis, and user experience modeling
• You gravitate towards creating the simplest model possible to solve a problem, but donâ??t shy away from using complex methodologies when called for
• Experience with SAS, SPSS or R
• Comfortable with database schemas and command-line scripting for aggregating, cleaning, and processing data
• Knowledge of SQL
• Proactive, self-starter who is happy working both independently and with a team
• PhD/Masters in a related field (i.e. statistics, mathematics, industrial engineering, or similar)
• Comfortable working in a startup environment
• Excited about applying data analysis to define the future of online and mobile dating

Please email resume to: kathy@speeddate.com.

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18312x.shtml Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you.

SAS Analyst, Credit/Fraud Services & ScoreCard (Wichita, KS)

Headquartered in Wichita Kansas, Client is a rapidly growing provider of consumer financial services. Since opening their first store in 1997 in Riverside, California, they have successfully expanded to nine states and eighty-two retail locations. Client is currently the leading small short term lender in the brick and mortar store market place in terms of top line revenue and bottom line profitability. In the last 12 months Client has also developed and is rapidly expanding an online loan businesses with intentions of achieving superior market share in this space in the next 24 months.

This role will assist the Lead Analyst developing, implementing and monitoring loan approval models that will result in increased acceptance rates and lower default rates of our various consumer loan products. The objective of the role is to assist development, implementation, monitoring of client’s credit risk strategies to help manage and grow the loan portfolio by optimizing values of each loan application and customer. The business operates in “test and learn” culture, where for each of our key credit risk decisions you will help Lead Analyst develop challenger strategies, rolling out successful strategies to champion status, pulling unsuccessful ones quickly and helping develop new challengers.

To help realize the client’s objectives, this Credit Data Analyst role will have a vital part to play. The role will be challenging, but also, be mentored by the Lead Analyst to fully support deliverables to individual business units’ Risk Data Management teams, with the aim to make all risks transparent and understood. Various responsibilities starting in Business and Finance and ending in Information Technology. Assist in the Start Up, Launch, and, Enhancements of new product development to meet loan regulatory and compliance requirements for new Internet Lending Practice. Web originated loan underwriting will be an eLoan / Web 2.0 consumer lending product. Work extensively with client’s Lead Credit Analyst, to assist in their own critical Credit ScoreCard development - From Chief Internet Officer’s desk : "Put another way, consumer lending companies are becoming much more interested in understanding their customers’ lives and psyches, because, the theory goes, knowing what makes cardholders tick will help firms determine who is a good bet and who should be shown the door as quickly as possible. Luckily for the industry, small groups of executives at most of the large firms like ours, have spent the last decade studying our customers from almost every angle, and collection agencies have developed more sophisticated dunning techniques. We have sought to draw psychological and behavioral lessons from the enormous amounts of data the credit- lending companies collect every day. They’ve run thousands of tests and crunched the numbers on millions of accounts. " Must be a US Citizen, or, have a Green Card

Salary : To 75K Plus - D.O.E. Relocation : Available Permanent position in the Midwest : Wichita - Ranked 2 as most "Livable Communities" for its size : http://www.wichitakansas.org. and more recently, one of ten “All American Cities” : http://www.wichitakansas.org/user/file/All_America_City.pdf

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist Lead Analyst to develop, build and deploy various statistical models used for loan loss minimization, loss forecasting, and other targeted analysis.
• Provide direct support to the Lead Analyst in the evaluation and analysis of all consumer credit risk.
• Analyze portfolio level information to identify and monitor key risk factors and develop proposed solutions. Perform ad-hoc analysis of consumer portfolios.
• Report and analyze characteristics of the Consumer Credit lines of business in relation to policies, guidelines and processes.
• Deliver portfolio analysis and performance metrics as well as create insight into new areas of concern or benefit for the portfolio.
• Monitor and evaluate problem loan statistics. Ensure that appropriate reporting of activity is occurring consistent with company policy.
• Identify and communicate to the Lead Analyst potential policy and or operational improvements that will enhance credit quality.
• Deliver requests tasked for Credit Scoring add-ons from the Lead Analyst
• Deliver requests tasked for Test Validity of statistical results from Lead Analyst

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• 2+ years experience with combined online consumer lending and sub-prime risk analysis, or other high volume data intensive environments (i.e. marketing /web analytics). Previous experience with a high online transaction volume environment is highly considered.
• 2+ years experience working with Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Reporting Services, BI Tools Suite, combined with strong analytical skills in their previous experience working with large volumes of transactional data.
• Sufficient hands-on experience in Quantitative Analytics.
• Sufficient hands-on experience in SAS, SQL / Excel. Hands-on Data Aggregator experience also preferred.
• Some understanding of consumer finance industry. Sub-prime and non-secured loans a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data from intensive, fast paced tasking requests.
• Demonstrated ability to work with significant volumes of data in various formats and databases.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and understand various applications and business intelligence/database tools.
• Knowledge of credit report attributes and non-traditional data attributes preferred.
• Knowledge in logistic regression, CHAID and decision trees strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of data mining and reporting, default modeling, and loan portfolio analytics strongly recommended
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical, verbal and written communication skills.
• Degree in Economics, Statistics Mathematics, Finance, Operations Research, Computer Science or other related areas.

To apply: email resume to tbirdsell@kc.rr.com

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18311x.shtml Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you.

Sr. Research Analyst - LookSmart (San Francisco, CA)

LookSmart is currently seeking an experienced Senior Data Analyst. In this role you will work with our account managers to define success metrics for our advertisers, and then work with the account management team to develop strategies that will beat those metrics

You will: • Develop quantitative analyses, custom models and ad hoc reports to effectively monitor performance, trends, and opportunities of the ad network • Work with advertisers to help define their success metrics • Develop recommendations to beat advertiser’s desired metrics based on best practices • Recommend optimizations to account managers and assess the effectiveness of those recommendations • Work with product team to recommend enhancements to the AdCenter application that will support optimization of advertiser’s accounts

Required Experience: • 2 years experience as a Business Analyst • Excellent Excel and basic SQL skills • Experience with databases and data warehousing • High attention to detail • Strong verbal and written communications skills • Experience in online advertising • Hyperion/brio experience

For immediate consideration, please submit your resume in text format (no attachments) to jobs@looksmart.net and include "Senior Business Analyst” in subject line. For additional information, please visit www.looksmart.com.

About LookSmart Going strong for over 10 years, one of the key contributors to LookSmart's success is the quality of its employees, and we are always looking for the best and the brightest. We have a fun, diverse, and challenging start-up environment where not only are your ideas encouraged, but you will have hands-on experience and the opportunity to impact the bottom line.