Professional Data Scientist, Houzz

• Bachelors/Masters Degree with 3-5 years of experience working within an analytical role in a high-growth tech company
• Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries such as using aggregate functions and all types of joins using Hive or Presto. Strong programming skills in Python or R
• Proficiency in advanced experimental designing, testing, and analysis
• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• A passion for analytics and product development
• Self-motivated, independent, and eager to learn

Desirable

• Houzz is looking for a world-class Analyst to join our Pro Software Analytics team
• Our mission is to assist Houzz software initiatives with data driven insights
• Our team is working on discovering information hidden in vast amounts of data to make intelligent business decisions and to deliver better products
• Critical projects will focus on data-driven insights to guide product development and business direction
• Collaborate with leadership, product, analytics and engineering teams to identify, define and launch strategic and operational data science initiatives to improve Pro software performance
• Define key metrics (KPIs) to guide business decision makings across various aspects of our site
• Relentlessly manage the key metrics of the business and product
• Ensure product areas are performing in line with our high expectations and be able to identify, diagnose and recommend projects to improve our performance
• Design product experiments, interpret the results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions, and conduct root cause analysis
• Own the end-to-end execution of projects by working with a broad cross-functional team
• Work with data infrastructure / product engineering teams to define the data collection needs
• Provide recommendations to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions