Associate Data Analyst, Proximic

Job Title: Associate Data Analyst, Proximic

Location: Pune, MH

About This Role

Comscore is looking for a new associate colleague for their Analytics team, who play an important role within the Proximic division, a business unit dedicated to programmatic targeting within Comscore. This role sits at the intersection of Product, Technology and Innovation. An Analyst on this team will be at the forefront of helping to ensure that Proximic’s contextual targeting solutions are based on the best data and most robust analytics in market. This role will have end-to-end understanding and involvement in the product including: developing metadata and vocabularies that aid the automatic classification of content, normalizing data, evaluating statistical models and integrating with ad-tech partners.

What You’ll Do:

• Analyze & interpret patterns from web traffic using statistical techniques/command line tools

• Build audience segments taking recency, data availability and accuracy into consideration

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams on ideas to enhance content categorization

• Determine misclassifications and gaps in data coverage; identify contributing causes and help identify ways to resolve them to increase precision/recall

• Engage with statistics or data science teams to define desired outcome, prepare datasets and review performance of resulting modeled data

• Manipulate outgoing data for partners into specific formats and normalize incoming data

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, statistics or a related technical discipline

• 1-3 years of experience needed in Python/PySpark, dealing with big data in Hadoop/Spark/Snowflake environment.

• Professional experience in a data analyst, QA or similar role

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Strong problem solving and conceptual thinking abilities with attention to detail

• Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment

• Comfortable in technical environments and happy to learn new systems as needed

• Honed time management skills and demonstrated success in handling multiple, sometimes conflicting priorities

• Ability to balance quick decision-making with attention to quality and accuracy

• Familiarity with information precision/recall concepts

• Solid experience with Linux command line tools, SQL, Python, and spreadsheets / pivot tables

• Firsthand use of data warehouse environments such as SQL Server, Spark or Redshift

• Experience in Jenkins and Jira is a plus

• Experience with BI tool such as Tableau, Power BI or Grafana is a plus

• Knowledge of US media and culture

Shift Timing:

The regular hours for this position will cover a combination of business hours in the US and India – typically 2pm-11pm IST. Occasionally, later hours may be required for meetings with teams in other parts of the world. Additionally, for the first 4-6 weeks of onboarding and training, US Eastern time hours (IST -9:30) may be required.

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance coverage is provided to our employees and their dependants, 100% covered by Comscore;

• Provident Fund is borne by Comscore, and is provided over and above the gross salary to employees;

• 26 Annual leave days per annum, divided into 8 Casual leave days and 18 Privilege leave days;

• Comscore also provides a paid “Recharge Week” over the Christmas and New Year period, so that you can start the new year fresh;

• In addition, you will be entitled to:

• 10 Public Holidays;

• 12 Sick leave days;

• 5 Paternity leave days;

• 1 Birthday leave day.

• Flexible work arrangements;

• “Summer Hours” are offered from March to May: Comscore offers employees the flexibility to work more hours from Monday to Thursday, and the hours can be offset on Friday from 2:00pm onwards;

• Employees are eligible to participate in Comscore’s Sodexo Meal scheme and enjoy tax benefits; 

About Comscore:

At Comscore, we’re pioneering the future of cross-platform media measurement, arming organizations with the insights they need to make decisions with confidence. Central to this aim are our people who work together to simplify the complex on behalf of our clients & partners. Though our roles and skills are varied, we’re united by our commitment to five underlying values: Integrity, Velocity, Accountability, Teamwork, and Servant Leadership. If you’re motivated by big challenges and interested in helping some of the largest and most important media properties and brands navigate the future of media, we’d love to hear from you.

Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With a data footprint that combines digital, linear TV, over-the-top and theatrical viewership intelligence with advanced audience insights, Comscore allows media buyers and sellers to quantify their multiscreen behavior and make business decisions with confidence. A proven leader in measuring digital and set-top box audiences and advertising at scale, Comscore is the industry’s emerging, third-party source for reliable and comprehensive cross-platform measurement. To learn more about Comscore, please visit Comscore.com.

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