Experimentation Data Scientist - Platform Focus - (Hybrid Working)

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

The Role

Working with highly motivated product teams and reporting within a dedicated team of Experimentation data scientists, you will be responsible for understanding the value drivers of our key global services/products, assessing their performance and identifying improvement opportunities through detailed analysis and the design, running and interpretation of experiments.

The ideal candidate is a great collaborator who has strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. You have familiarity with the software development life cycle and data engineering principles. You are comfortable with data manipulation, building and maintaining data pipelines, and integrating with the experimentation platform. You have the ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams, leveraging their support to manage the end-to-end process of implementing and optimizing experiments. You are also a self-starter who has a strong grasp of statistical concepts and the ability to succinctly explain those concepts to non-technical audiences.

As the leading employment marketplace in APAC, we believe we offer a unique value proposition to purpose-driven candidates for a role of this nature: the product innovation and marketplace improvements that you help SEEK to measure and evaluate will translate to millions of additional people finding jobs that they otherwise may not have found. We believe few other companies offer the opportunity to make such a tangible and positive difference at this scale.

Responsibilities

Understanding Service/Product value drivers:

• Develop knowledge of use cases, user behaviours & segmentation and service mechanics (algorithms and models) across our SEEK Group partner sites and countries

Run experiments and support the improvement of the experiment framework:

• Work with engineers to improve and automate data collection and testing framework
• Work with guidance from senior colleagues to devise techniques and frameworks to ensure automated algorithms optimisation 
• Assist in driving continuous improvement of experimentation framework in scale, languages, speed of experiment and quality of insight by choosing appropriate techniques

Analyse experiments and drive product improvement:

• Design experiments that appropriately address hypotheses and will lead to trustworthy learning.
• Test hypotheses and analyse results, segmenting where required to surface insights from experiments
• Articulate findings and communicate recommendations back to the senior team and business stakeholders

Skills and experience 

• Background in Data Science, Engineering, Statistics or a discipline that makes substantial use of these disciplines. (e.g. Bioinformatics)
• Experience with data pipeline technologies, demonstrating the ability to design, implement, and maintain efficient and scalable data processing workflows
• Strong Python and SQL skills are required, along with exposure to Databricks, PySpark, Airflow, and Kubernetes
• Foundational knowledge of hypothesis testing and associated statistical techniques
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
• Developing (or demonstrating) the ability to translate and present data in a concise and meaningful way to stakeholders
• Proven ability to independently work with various stakeholder groups – data science, engineering, business stakeholders

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.