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Belfast, Northern Ireland

Closing Date

2021-03-12 00:00:00

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Senior Data Scientist

  • About Bazaarvoice
     
    At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products.
     
    The problem we are trying to solve : Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty.
     
    Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers.
     
    As part of the evolution of the R&D team in Belfast we are now growing a team of Bazaarvoice Engineers to work on the content generating Influenster community. Working closely with other teams in Belfast you will contribute greatly to the long term success of what is a huge growth area for the company as we make investments across the board now to hit those longer term growth goals.
     
    What you’ll be doing:
    Work with stakeholders throughout the company to identify opportunities for leveraging data to drive product and business solutions.
    - Use predictive modeling (recommendation engine) to increase and optimize customer experiences, content generation and consumption.
    - Analyze data to drive optimization and improvement of product development, user acquisition and business initiatives.
    - Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
    - Develop A/B testing framework and test effectiveness of developed solutions and models.
    - Coordinate with engineering and product team to implement models and monitor outcomes.
    - Develop processes and tools to ensure data accuracy.
     

    Who you are:

      • At least five years of experience as a data scientist.
      • Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
      • Experience using Python and its related libraries (NumPy, SciPy etc.).
      • Experience querying large datasets (relational or non-relational) efficiently with popular languages (SQL, Python, R etc.) to draw insights.
      • Experience with creating efficient and forward-looking data structures and architectures.
      • Knowledge of a widely used machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning etc.) and their real-world applications.
      • Knowledge of advanced statistical methods (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and practical applications.
      • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
      • Nice to have:
      • Hands-on experience with building a recommendation engine.
      • Experience AWS environment and its data and machine learning solutions (Redshift, DynamoDB, Rekognition, Personalize, SageMaker, Neptune etc.)
      • Experience with other languages: C, C++, Java.
      • Experience with e-commerce data (product, review, user etc.)
    Why join Bazaarvoice?
     
    - We’re committed to client success: There are over 6,200 brand and retail websites in the Bazaarvoice network. Our clients represent some of the world’s leading companies across a wide range of industries including retail, apparel, automotive, consumer electronics and travel.
    - We’re leaders in consumer-generated content: Each month, more than one billion consumers view and share authentic consumer-generated content, such as ratings and reviews, curated photos, social posts and videos, about products in our network. Thousands upon thousands or reviews are added to the Bazaarvoice network everyday.
    - Our network delivers: Network analytics provide insights that help marketers and advertisers provide more engaging experiences that drive brand awareness, consideration, sales, and loyalty.
    - We’re a great place to work: We pride ourselves on our unique culture. Join a company that values passion, innovation, authenticity, generosity, respect, teamwork, and performance.
     
     
     
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