Today, Humana is a leader in consumer engagement. Throughout its diversified customer portfolio, the company provides guidance that can both help lower costs and lead to a better health plan experience.

Are you a fit?
Are you a detail-oriented analytical thinker? Would you enjoy using your mathematical knowledge to analyze and improve current business processes? If so, read on!

Assignment Capsule
As an Actuarial Analyst you will develop technical and business knowledge by collecting and analyzing data related to product development, pricing, reserving, financial reporting and other actuarial functions.

• Apply expertise and technical support, under the guidance of seasoned associates, in matters related to the successful and financially sound operation of the companies business to the departments external and internal customers.
• Analyze experience reports and manual rate analyses, developing recommendations for improvements, and preparing state filings for rate changes and product implementation that will ensure the profitability and financial integrity of Humana’s business.
• Evaluate reserving estimates and assess their adequacy.
• Act as liaison to the IT department to ensure that effective rating systems are in place.

• Builds Trust: You honor your word by doing what you say you are going to do.
• Implementation/Execution: You are good at organizing and managing multiple priorities and/or projects by using appropriate methodologies and tools.
• Innovate: You introduce new ideas and processes which improve performance and productivity.
• Problem Solving: You are a problem solver with the ability to encourage others in collaborative problem solving. Acting as both a broker and consultant regarding resources, you engage others in problem solving without taking over.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18108xSenior Data Mining SpecialistSanta MonicaCAActivisionhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18108x.shtml?source=latproActivision is looking for an outstanding Sr. Data-Mining Specialist with a passion for games to join our Central Design and Technologies team. This individual will have a pragmatic approach to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The ideal candidate will possess peerless data-mining and analytical skills, a boundless intellectual curiosity, and demonstrated ability to not only to extract gold from terabytes of data, but to present the results in a concise and meaningful manner. This is a critical hire with a potential for rapid growth.

Basic Function:

The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist will personally drive exploration and analysis of large, complex data sets representing hundreds of millions of real-world play sessions. Responsibilities include working with Central Design and Technologies to establish the feasibility of critical studies, choosing the right tools and techniques to mine the data in a timely way, iterating on data visualization, and actively steering the data-mining group towards interesting results.

The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must have a deep knowledge of and passion for all aspects of analysis; from seeing the possibilities in a given dataset, to using standard tools to perform complex extraction and analysis, to presenting results in a meaningful way. Problem-solving, prioritizing the need for timely answers while being open to discovery, and attention to detail must be second nature. The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must thrive in a challenging and ambiguous environment and be adept at driving to meaningful results regardless of technical or organizational hurdles. The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must be pragmatic and practical, rather than scholastic in their approach.

Principal Working Relationships:

• Sr. Director of Game Design (reports to)
• VP of Online Technology and Central Online team
• Database architects and programmers
• Sr. online staff at development studios

• Relevant degree required; advanced degree a plus
• 8 years experience and demonstrated expertise in data-mining and statistical analysis
• Possess strong understanding of standard data-mining tools and techniques. Experience with diverse statistical and data mining methods (e.g., cluster analysis, GLM/Regressions, Trees, SVMs, etc.). Social network analysis experience is a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of the realities of working with large, rich datasets
• Demonstrated ability to compromise and improvise while driving for results
• Must be committed to finding useful answers to fascinating questions
• Able to work and problem solve independently, to organize workload and priorities, and complete tasks on time
• Proven ability for high-quality execution, technical innovation/adaptation, and initiative.
• Avid gamer with a strong interest and knowledge of the video game industry

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18111xStatistical Marketing AnalystSaint PetersburgFLKobiehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18111x.shtml?source=latproKobie Marketing is a growing, nationally recognized industry leader in the customer retention and loyalty marketing industry. We are experts at developing, implementing, and managing industry leading loyalty marketing programs. Our vast experience is complemented by a culture that is deeply committed to client service. Our employees are the reason behind our success, and we would like to offer you an opportunity to build a successful career as a part of our team. To learn more about the benefits of working at Kobie please visit our website at www.kobie.com.

Kobie Marketing currently has an opening in the Strategic Services Division for a Statistical Marketing Analyst. The ideal Statistical Marketing Analyst will have a strong understanding of database marketing, interpretation of data, analyzing results, and recommending further uses of the data for marketing and planning purposes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage customer behavior-based models, analyzing, executing, maintaining, enhancing and interpreting the models and their outputs.
• Explore, expand and improve the capabilities of the models so as to exploit to their full advantage.
• Provide customized analytic services for database modeling and market research projects.
• Provide and present insights on customer attitudes and behavior to support actionable marketing strategy and tactics.

• Strong problem solving skills; can think independently with strong intellectual curiosity.
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, or other similar statistical programs as demonstrated by the ability to write statistical programming codes/syntax.
• Detailed knowledge and experience in performing data manipulation (code/syntax writing), i.e., data recode, transpose, cleansing, and other necessary requirements before any data analysis.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Multivariate and advanced statistics including regression analysis (GLM), factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminate analysis, conjoint analysis, categorical data analysis, and decision trees.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite with advanced Excel skills.
• A Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Social Sciences or related quantitative fields, or equivalent experience.
• MS SQL, SAS, Microsoft Office Suite with advanced Excel skills. Experience with Tableau a plus
• 3-5 years minimum work experience in analytics. 5-7 years or equivalent experience in related field preferred

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18112xInformation Retrieval Software EngineerSeattleWAAmazonhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18112x.shtml?source=latproAmazon.com's Darwin team is looking for exceptional software engineers to develop algorithms and build systems to automatically solve a variety of Information Retrieval and Data Mining problems related to the Amazon Product Catalog - one of the company's biggest asset.

Our principal challenge is to improve the shopping experience by detecting duplicate products for sale in the catalog and merging them. Merchants on Amazon.com provide information about the products they want to sell. Amazon attempts to match these product data submissions to items in its catalog so that it can display offers for the same product on a single page. Poorly structured or incomplete data makes this problem very challenging and often results in duplicate products getting created in the catalog. These duplicate products are shown in search results and end up confusing customers, leading to a bad customer experience. The Darwin team detects these duplicate products in the Amazon.com catalog using an innovative mix of Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Text Analysis algorithms and human intelligence harnessed via the Amazon Mechanical Turk. We then automatically merge products detected as duplicates together, improving customer experience and the quality of the catalog.

We are also responsible for a variety of other Catalog-related projects such as placing Product Advertisements on pages, automatically extracting important product features from the product description with a view to improving the discovery (search and browse) experience on the website and detecting egregious cases of poor quality data provided by sellers.

We are a highly-motivated, co-operative and fun loving team who thrive on solving challenging problems with innovation. As part of this team you will be analyzing data, developing new algorithms, building large-scale distributed software systems in Java using open source technologies such as Apache Lucene and JBoss and other Amazon.com proprietary technologies.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Math or related field with 2+ years of experience.
• Past experience in at least one of the following areas - Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Text Analysis or Machine Learning.
• Desire to analyze data while developing solutions to problems.
• Strong desire to build high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
• Strong design and coding skills in Java/C++ on Unix Platforms.
• Familiar with Perl and have a good understanding of SQL.
• Be highly innovative, flexible and self-directed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18113xDirector, AnalyticsNew YorkNYGilt.comhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18113x.shtml?source=latproGilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to men’s, women’s and children’s coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Launched in November 2007, Gilt Groupe is a new and exciting online fashion business, revolutionizing the way consumers across America shop. Headquartered in New York, Gilt Groupe is a members-only sample sale website, providing an exclusive sneak-peek into the latest collections of high-end fashion at highly discounted prices. With a limited time window of 24-48 hours to shop each designer sale, members have exclusive access to a fresh and exciting roster of desirable merchandise every week!

Gilt Groupe is built upon proven, successful track records and is a fully funded company. Members of the founding team bring experience from eBay, DoubleClick, Saks Fifth Avenue and many more. We are growing rapidly and offer very competitive salary with equity.

The primary responsibility for this role is using data to help the business make better decisions in areas of marketing, CRM, customer retention, merchandising and pricing and strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will have strong consultative skills in addition to quantitative ability, and will be aware of the challenges of using statistics in a business setting, such as incomplete data, biased data, and large data sets. Requires being creative and resourceful in use of both traditional and newer statistical and data mining techniques. This is green fields opportunity to build something from the ground up and a chance to model a business that has not existed before.

Responsibilities

• Use personalization techniques to drive business metrics, such as revenue through site and email channels.
• Build models to predict milestone customer behaviors, acquisition, conversion, retention.
• Ensure rigor in any testing program. Lead by example.
• Model product price sensitivity.
• Develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis
• Discover and drive new opportunities to optimize the business.
• In partnership with the Director, Business Intelligence identify opportunities to enrich our data to improve our modeling.
• Partner with IT to implement models and tests
• Hire and mentor a small team

• Experience with data mining in a marketing context, but not solely marketing. Breadth is appreciated.
• Experience with statistical software, such as SPSS, S+, SAS, R. (Product not yet selected.)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience with SQL, relational database design and methods for efficiently retrieving data from them.
• 7-10 years professional experience.
• Must be able to maintain a big picture perspective.
• Must have entrepreneurial spirit and drive, thriving in a fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing industry.
• Masters Degree in statistics, econometrics or related field. Ph.D. preferred.
• Experience with survey a plus.
• Fluent in a major programming language a plus.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18114xMarketing Mix ModelerChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18114x.shtml?source=latproThe Commander of Calculations. The Numerical Genius. The Translator.

The Draftfcb Marketing Mix Modeler.

At Draftfcb the M3 will lead quantitative modeling in granular marketing return on objectives/investment partnerships and produce actionable marketing mix analysis for our clients. The M3 should be self directed with prior experience in developing models for a variety of products. The position will report in to the Marketing Mix Practice Lead at Draftfcb.

The Position

• As an integral part of the marketing mix team, identify the business objectives and financial specifics for marketing accountability specific to each client project.
• Determine data sources and granularity; assess data quality
• Apply deep understanding of mass media planning and buying, retail audits and scanner data, in-store marketing, direct marketing, online media metrics and elements in the marketing mix (including pricing, and distribution) to develop appropriate modeling strategies
• Lead the data setup, statistical analysis and build marketing mix models
• Derive key actionable insights and generate interactive marketing mix optimization tools

• Advanced degree with heavy quantitative coursework (e.g., marketing analytics, statistics, math, economics)
• 8-10 years’ experience in marketing analytics or related field such as advertising, retail marketing, product marketing, direct marketing, online marketing, loyalty marketing, etc.
• 3-5 years’ experience in hands-on marketing mix modeling
• Experience with syndicated data sources such as Nielsen, IRI, and brand health data preferred
• strong quantitative skills and demonstrable experience in statistical/econometric modeling of marketing investment data
• Previous experience developing marketing models for a variety of products (CPGs, durables etc.) and service providers (financial, insurance, telecom etc.)

• Good grasp of time series predictive modeling, forecasting, media/channel optimization and how they relate to marketing strategy
• Proficiency with SPSS/SAS, and advanced analytics required

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses.

It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Email resume to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18201xDirector, Marketing Science and Innovation GroupLos AngelesCAOTXhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18201x.shtml?source=latproReports to SVP, Marketing Science & Innovation
OTX – Los Angeles
Email Resume Submissions to careers@otxresearch.com.

Mission statement for the MSI group

• Provide realizable and sustainable methodological foundations for all OTX products and project insights
• Maximize profit by balancing investment in analytics with in-house capabilities and high quality outside partners
• Implement cutting edge innovative methods for insight
• Develop optimization methods for our clients’ business issues
• Use the MSI group as a point of differentiation for OTX in the marketplace
• Expand our role as industry thought leaders
• Continue introduction of best practices in science to market research

This is a key function within the Marketing Science & Innovation Group and the Director, Marketing Science & Innovation will contribute across all elements of the MSI mission statement.

Specifically, this individual will be a primary contact internally for new product development efforts and the execution and management of marketing science components of client projects.

Duties include research study design, statistical and modeling analysis, helping create cutting edge methods for new products, interacting with client service and external clients to understand business needs and implementation/development of standards for tracking data and other continuous research projects.

The Director, MSI will stay abreast of new data analysis techniques, modeling approaches and applications from related scientific disciplines and consider how these approaches can improve OTX deliverables.

Experience / skills required

Qualifications must include:

• Undergraduate degree with work in mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences and/or quantitative business analysis (Advanced degree preferred)
• Minimum 1 - 2 years of related MR experience
• Extensive knowledge of research computing
• Programming language tools (Perl, Java, SQL, R, C++, etc.)
• Tasks (large data set manipulation, distributed computing, system engineering)
• Comprehensive knowledge of multivariate statistical techniques
• Familiarity with or interest in advanced methods such as:
  • neural networks
  • genetic algorithms
  • agent based models
  • Bayesian belief systems
• Technical knowledge/understanding/background in SQL, Database Design, and Data Processes
• Strong communication and follow-up skills; including clearly communicating with management, customers and vendors
• Capable of working independently and with multiple departments
• Complex database and data management experience

Compensation Commensurate with Experience

OTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications are encouraged from all persons regardless of their race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, marital status, religious creed, medical/physical/mental condition, sexual orientation, Veteran status, or age.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18203xSr. Statistician, 1 year contractSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18203x.shtml?source=latproWe are a technology consulting company currently working with our direct clients including eBay, Paypal, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Cisco, EMC, Symantec, S&P, Novell, Agilent, Verisign, Hitachi, Genentech, Novartis amongst others enabling the success of their Software as well as IT infrastructure development initiatives through the quality of our consultants. Our website url is www.akraya.com.

I would really like to discuss this position with you. Kindly mail me resumes in word format at shrijeet.nair@akraya.com so that we can discuss further. Feel free to call me at my direct # 408.512.2371 .

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The ideal candidate will:

• Be deeply knowledgeable about data mining, modeling.
• Invent, develop, and execute innovative approaches to improving the performance of online marketing efforts.
• Build relationships with the client and the account management teams.
• Participate in the active management and continued development of the analytic team’s systems and processes. The ideal candidate will be a valued contributor, leveraging his/her expertise and analytical perspective.
• Understand the underlying pains of a client, and then formulate and implement solutions to resolve the client’s issues via data and analytics.
• Work collaboratively with other analytics team members. Share knowledge across the board.
• Provide analytic service: building out the analytic service framework.

• Experience working with web analytics data or financial data.
• Solid understanding of online media, search, digital industry trends, etc.
• Superior analytical skills, including experience using detailed data files to answer questions and solve problems.
• Exceptional creative and inventive mindset. Strong desire to build unique, world-class analytical solutions.
• Strong technical skills, both from a hands-on programming perspective, as well as a “big picture” perspective regarding analytics.
• The need to continually develop the analytical knowledge base, and to help grow the team into a best in class search marketing and analytics powerhouse.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills are essential to this position. The candidate will have proven communication skills that demonstrate understanding of complex data or statistical details, clarity of thought, relating complex information to non-technical users, and the ability to persuade others.
• Exceptional attention to detail, and a burning desire to make analyses precise. A successful candidate will explore every aspect of the data in an analysis from the observed behavior to the processes that create the data. Skepticism is key. Take proud in delivering high quality results.
• Some knowledge of the online space from a marketing perspective.

Candidates with one or more of the following are desirable:

• Excellent communications and listening skills to work directly with clients, understanding their needs and then formulating and executing solutions to address those needs.
• Experience in R, S+, SAS and SQL programming. Proven product development experience such as automated reporting, scraping tool using R or SAS, etc.
• Quantitative degree – advanced degree in statistics/economics preferred.
• Substantial work experience in data analytics and modeling - 6+ yrs
• Database or direct marketing
• Consulting
• database and/or business intelligence experience

URL: www.akraya.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18204xTechnical Product Specialist, Analytics, SAS, SPSS, S+, and RBostonMAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18204x.shtml?source=latproProvide pre-sales technical expertise and product knowledge in the area of advanced analytics (products including SAS, R, SPSS, S+, and others) to assist in our sales efforts and partnering activities.

Responsibilities:

Specialist would support field sales in engagements where advanced analytics will be utilized or is a key to the sales cycle. Also would provide corporate based resources with hands-on knowledge of customer requirements and current technology trends.

Work with various account teams to provide technical sales support in sales/product presentations, product positioning, product demonstration, and implementation. Serve as the corporate product specialist and functional expert for a wide range of analytic tools. Build proof-of-concept analytic applications based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping. Provide advanced analytics product evaluation support, product installation, application prototyping and benchmarks, often times in conjunction with a technology partner.

Skills:

• Knowledge of leading-edge statistical and quantitative analytical methods and experience with statistical analysis tools such as SAS, SPSS, S+, and R
• Ability to partner with customers, technology partners, and internal teams to define implementation strategies, review best practices, prototypes, and deliver initial solution implementations
• Experience with BI tools such as Business Objects, MicroStrategy, and Cognos
• Experience with ETL tools such as Infomatica, DataStage, and Ab Initio
• Experience writing complex SQL queries, and fluency with C++/C, Java, Python, R, and MapReduce
• Experience with parallel database technologies helpful
• Excellent communication skills and ability to speak to technical and business stakeholders and users
• Solid understanding of support/sales/account management workflow
• Detail-oriented; passion for getting involved with many different products, as well as understanding their form and functionality at a detailed level
• Proven track record of excellent presentation, documentation, and customer interaction skills
• Demonstrated experience in successfully advocating customer needs

Experience implementing advanced analytic applications in a customer and partner environment.

Education:

University Degree essential - Computer Science preferred. Advanced degree a plus. Database, business analytics, BI technology consulting also a plus.

Please respond to:

Jim Stewart
Stewart Systems Inc.
781-639-2900
Email: StewartSystems [at] verizon.net (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18206xSAS ConsultantRomeItalySmith Hanleyhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18206x.shtml?source=latpro

Smith Hanley Consulting Group was founded nearly 30 years ago and has 12 offices throughout the United States. We are a specialized recruiting services organization and are part of inVentiv Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTIV), the leading provider of commercialization and complementary services to global pharmaceutical, life sciences, biotechnology, and other industries. We have two divisions within Smith Hanley Consulting Group that offer exceptional staffing solutions to our clients.

Global Financial Services company is seeking a SAS Consultant for a project in Rome, Italy. The ideal candidate will be responsible for manipulating large amounts of transactional data for reporting and promotional purposes revolving around marketing campaigns and promotions. The Consultant must have a proven track record in financial/marketing based business intelligence. The ability to communicate those results and to formulate recommendations to senior management both in Italy and the US, will be critical for success in this position. Lastly, participation in face-to-face client initiatives will be required; therefore must be fluent in Italian and English.

Required Skills:

• 3-5 years of SAS MACROS/ BASE programming and development experience to include very strong data management skills
• Prepare pre-campaign analysis, campaign tracking, and backend campaign profitability and sustainability
• Windows and UNIX (preferably AIX) experience
• Strong SQL skills
• Oracle
• MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18210xStatistics EngineerSunnyvaleCAEfficient Frontierhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18210x.shtml?source=latproEfficient Frontier (www.efrontier.com), a leading SEM solution provider, is looking for a statistics engineer to maintain and enhance models and algorithms in Sunnyvale, CA, office.

Responsibilities

• Enhancement of currently defined models and heuristic applications
• Development of customized models
• Programming predictive modeling algorithms
• Assessing the statistical significance of performance differences between models; e.g. hypothesis testing to compare a model with new features to an already deployed model.

• Master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in quantitative discipline: statistics, econometrics, applied math, computer science, machine learning
• Comprehensive understanding of some of the following quantitative methods: multivariate regression, classification, cluster analysis, simultaneous equation models, decision trees, hypothesis testing, neural nets, SVM, time series, outlier identification, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations etc.
• Proficiency in R/ SAS/ SPSS and SQL
• Experience with large data sets
• Exposure to operations research/ linear and non-linear optimization concepts is a plus

Please e-mail your resume to: jobs@efrontier.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18211xSoftware Development Engineer, Personalization PlatformSeattleWAAmazonhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18211x.shtml?source=latpro

We know what people want before they know it themselves. Amazon.com's product recommendations are among our most popular and best-loved features and help drive customer delight by recommending relevant, serendipitous products based on each customer's unique interests. Be part of the team that collects customer behavior data in real-time, and uses this data to recommend the perfect products to millions of customers every day.

Requirements:

You should have a track record of operational excellence, a bias for action and ability to brainstorm and prototype ideas efficiently as well as the following:

• A BS in computer science or equivalent, along with at least 3 years of software development experience.
• Strong OO design and Java coding skills.
• Ability to think quantitatively.
• Experience in recommender systems, data mining, machine learning, or artificial intelligence in a commercial setting is desired.
• Experience in parallel computing and developing high throughput, high availability systems is desired.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18212xSr. Software Development Engineer in TestBellevueWABinghttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18212x.shtml?source=latproLooking for the challenge of a different kind of test problem? Ever thought of how you would verify software that mines petabytes of data to produce metrics that are business critical. How would you verify that metrics are meaningful? How would you test that metrics are indeed accurate? If you want to play a key part in building the largest and most innovative Business Intelligence and advanced analytics system in the world. Come talk to us!

Microsoft online services generate huge amount of data ranging from user interaction logs, web documents, user feedback, to system performance data. The data contains valuable information for building the #1 search engine to serve people's information needs. The data is also critical for making appropriate business decisions. The main challenge is to effectively process the data, discover information and put it into action. We are developing advanced and practical data mining, and machine learning techniques to derive information to understand user intent, discover patterns to improve search relevance and results ranking, detect and filter bot traffic, spam, and noise, and measure relevance and user satisfaction quickly and effectively, identify weak points of the search engine, discover system performance systems, measure/understand the health of the online business, and many more. We also work on techniques to manage and process petabytes of data efficiently and effectively. Our BI pipelines use Cosmos, a highly-scalable, highly-available distributed storage/processing infrastructure to collect massive data and in conjunction of SQL server and SQL reporting service to perform analysis on the data and expose results to business teams, Bing feature teams and leadership teams.

The Bing Infrastructure Data Mining team is looking for experienced SDET to contribute to test these unique and challenging problems. Verify that the data pipeline is fully functional, that the metrics produced are reliable, meaningful and accurate, so that the decisions made on them are sound. You will be testing a pipeline that not only processes data quickly and reliably, but is also able to scale up to handle some of the largest data sets on earth!

Responsibilities of the Senior SDET:

• Develop optimal test case design, equivalence classing, and matrix reduction
• Develop test methods that improve coverage for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Identify opportunities to adopt or develop better automation tools
• Analyze patterns of defects for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Conduct preliminary root cause analyses that increase team productivity
• Collaborate with other disciplines in improving code design for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Influence appropriate compromises and dependencies in planning across feature teams
• Establish agreements with other teams that ensure coverage and communication
• Lead and influence data quality work across a team of 200 engineers

• BS or equivalent in a technical area
• Experience shipping at least two large commercial software product (ideally at Microsoft)
• 6+ years programming experience (C#, C/C++, SQL)
• Experience or interest in data analysis and business intelligence
• Proactive, self-motivated and self-starter
• Strong communication skills, and ability to work with other functional roles

Contact: eugenial [at] microsoft.com, or Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18213xManager, Analytics and Decision SupportWoodland HillsCAIntuithttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18213x.shtml?source=latproAre you looking to work in a quickly growing business unit?
Are you looking to expand your career and challenge your development?
Are you results oriented and like to continuously improve? Do you have strong process and analytical skills?
Are you a people person who also likes working cross-functionally and coaching and developing others?

If you answered YES to several of the above, then this role could be for you!

Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, but that’s just the start. We also help small and medium sized businesses get paid (Intuit Payment Solutions), pay their employees (Intuit Payroll Division) or build websites (Intuit Homestead). We are currently going through a fundamental transformation from a shrink-wrapped software company to one of the country's leading providers of web-based applications and solutions for small to medium sized businesses.

Come join Intuit’s Payment Solutions Division as Manager, Analytics and Decision Support. We are looking for creative problem solvers with a passion for innovation to join our team and revolutionize the way the world does business.

The primary reason businesses and merchants sign up to use our card and check processing service is to (a) get paid fast and (b) lower their cost of payment acceptance. The biggest element in a merchant’s total cost of payment acceptance is the number of “bad payments” they accept, be it bad checks or fraudulent cards, and the number of those “bad payments” that do not get collected. This position will report to the head of the Risk function and the primary role of the Manager is to lead the Business and Data Analysts by developing and maintaining cutting edge loss prevention products and techniques in the markets we serve.

Skills:

• Leadership Skills: Manage a team by motivating, guiding, supporting, providing thought and analytical leadership and driving execution of key projects.
• Project Management Skills: Work to identify, validate and test external data sources. Determine and craft project and business requirements as well work with internal partners, including information technology, product and operations to successfully deliver enhancements.
• Financial Acumen: Has ability to quickly grasp the revenue and profit drivers to any business. Responsible for loss forecasting, reserve setting and financial planning of credit losses.
• Predictive Model Building and Analytic Skills: Has passion in analyzing data, drawing appropriate conclusions, able to effectively summarize and communicate findings and create strategies to translate statistical findings to business strategies that positively impact the business and customer.
• Critical Thinking: Convert analytical insights into strategies that drive reductions in bad check rate for our customers
• Reporting & Performance Tracking: Creating daily, weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports for customers as well as management
• Communication and Presentation Skills: Demonstrated persuasive written and verbal communication skills with ability to establish logical flow and story to present complex information in an easy to understand way.
• Interpersonal Skills / Team Work: Ability to work well with others, not just at a social level, but by building bridges and sometimes confronting tough issues that need to be resolved for the best of the business.
• Personality Traits: High degree of Initiative, Integrity, Outspoken, Servant Leadership type management style, Driven (while being a team player) & Strong Attention to Detail

• Advanced degree in quantitative field such as Statistics, Math, Economics or an MBA
• 5+ Years Work Experience in Payments or Financial Services
• Experience managing people and leading teams in similar environments
• Experience with building predictive models, ETL Processes & Data Analytics
• Advanced SQL, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word and MS Power Point Skills

www.intuitcareers.com - Requisition # 66339.
Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18214xData Mining AnalystTorontoCanadaWaterfront Internationalhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18214x.shtml?source=latproWaterfront International is a Toronto-based financial consulting firm, specializing in developing computer based statistical trading strategies. Waterfront’s selective hiring process considers only highly talented individuals with a history of exceptional professional and academic achievement, and solid real-world experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform financial market data research and analysis to identify and resolve data issues using advanced data mining techniques.
• Develop proprietary data mining tools and applications.
• Develop predictive models.

• PhD or Masters in mathematics, statistics or computer science specializing in data mining.
• Experience with machine learning and knowledge discovery techniques.
• Solid quantitative background with excellent analytical skills.
• Strong working knowledge of data mining and statistics.
• Must possess expert level C/C++ programming skills.
• Some financial experience desired but not required.
• Must be a strong self-starter and able to work well independently.

Email: recruiting@wil.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182016xData ManagerCincinnatiOHCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centerhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182016x.shtml?source=latpro At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, our vision is to be the leader in improving child health. We are dedicated to transforming the way health care is delivered and to implementing quality improvements to advance patient safety, outcomes and experiences. U.S.News & World Report ranked the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center the third best pediatric program at a medical school in the United States, behind only Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. Cincinnati Children's received 122 NIH grants in 2008 -- 21 more than in 2007 -- the most awarded to us in eight years. We are currently looking for the following:

Data Manager

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

To manage data processes and to develop, implement and maintain a data quality assurance program for research studies.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with researchers and research coordinators to ascertain data needs for research studies.
• Act as a liaison between research team, IT professionals, and analysts to create analysis data sets for research purposes.
• Design and test data collection tools.
• Build and maintain data dictionaries for division and study databases.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive data quality program for research studies.
• Ensure global clinical data management best practices and knowledge thereof in a standardized, transparent, and efficient manner. Assume responsibility as a partner for the planning, resourcing, and execution of relevant internal and external data management activities to obtain clean databases within a specified timeframe.
• Maintain data quality for research studies.
• Oversee the accuracy of data entry functions.
• Design and build eCRFs and edit checks, oversee validation process.
• Coordinate data transfers, data reconciliation.
• Develop knowledge and professional skills through continuing education, cross training, literature and attendance at departmental meetings.

Ability to organize and define problems, develop strategies, solutions and recommend action plans for research data management. Analytical and statistical ability sufficient to evaluate data, make judgments and recommendations regarding data management and quality. Experience performing basic statistical analysis including frequency distributions, graphical displays and descriptive statistics. Demonstrates analytical skills as well as accuracy and attention to detail. Possesses strong computer and word processing, spreadsheet statistical, and database software application skills (Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, Business Objects, Access, SAS or SPSS). Have a working knowledge of tools to build simple databases and electronic data collection tools. Be able to develop ad hoc queries for simple data retrieval skills.

EDUCATION/WORK EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Bachelor degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, management information systems, quantitative analysis or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 1 year experience developing and manipulating small to medium databases, using Visual Basic, SAS and/or SPSS and cleaning and managing data for multiple projects.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182018Senior Level SW Quality Metrics EngagementSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182018S.shtml?source=latproExpected Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities

M Squared will provide thought leadership working with an established software quality data team and will leverage a strong engineering and/or mathematics background and passion for collecting and analyzing SW quality and process metrics.

Primary responsibilities in this engagement will include:

• Analysis of voluminous data from numerous sources (defects per hour, reliability curves, bugs, overall test health, customer-found defect percentages, etc.)
• Develop predictive indicators on how current quality statistics will translate into field/customer performance
• Documented assessment of “as is” status and/or hypothesis on what is happening
• Formulation of “to be” state and recommendations on what should be done next
• SW quality modeling based on in-depth knowledge of in SW development process and of metrics used to assess code quality
• Development of solution(s) that bring fresh thinking to our client’s team

• Documentation of “As Is” and “To Be” assessments
• SW quality modeling
• Solutions recommendations

M Squared will achieve success in this engagement by providing fresh thinking on software quality data, metrics and processes to optimize SW Quality.

Industry Experience

• High Tech industry experience with SW quality leaders; non-client specific
• Significant experience in the software development arena coupled with engineering, mathematics or statistics educational background

• Exceptional knowledge of statistics and statisticals methodologies
• Highly skilled in Excel (including macro creation and Visual Basic)
• Demonstrated experience with bug query tools
• General knowledge of using web tools and posting data to web-sites (web-site creation and modification is a plus)

• Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists
• Demonstrated proactive team member
• Deals well with change of direction and focus
• Commits to deliverables and is timely in their delivery
• Quick study with high energy and stamina...it's the culture

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182019xDirector, Traffic AnalysisSan FranciscoCALooksmarthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182019x.shtml?source=latproWe are currently seeking a Director of Traffic Analysis to join the LookSmart Team.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing ad network traffic performance to optimally match traffic supply to advertiser demand
• Developing tools and infrastructure to enable account managers to manage traffic sources for their accounts
• Providing second level support for Account Managers
• Doing deep analysis/data mining of ad network traffic patterns. Developing and maintaining formulas and algorithms to enable sustainable growth of partner business and direct business.
• Building Traffic Analysis function as a core competency and competitive advantage
• Managing and mentoring a small team of analysts

• 3 years experience leading traffic analysis function for a major ad network
• 5 years experience in applied data analysis
• Strong domain expertise in on-line search advertising
• BA in computer science, statistical analysis or related field required, MS or PhD desirable.
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented work

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182018xSenior Level SW Quality Metrics EngagementSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182018x.shtml?source=latproExpected Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities

M Squared will provide thought leadership working with an established software quality data team and will leverage a strong engineering and/or mathematics background and passion for collecting and analyzing SW quality and process metrics.

Primary responsibilities in this engagement will include:

• Analysis of voluminous data from numerous sources (defects per hour, reliability curves, bugs, overall test health, customer-found defect percentages, etc.)
• Develop predictive indicators on how current quality statistics will translate into field/customer performance
• Documented assessment of “as is” status and/or hypothesis on what is happening
• Formulation of “to be” state and recommendations on what should be done next
• SW quality modeling based on in-depth knowledge of in SW development process and of metrics used to assess code quality
• Development of solution(s) that bring fresh thinking to our client’s team

• Documentation of “As Is” and “To Be” assessments
• SW quality modeling
• Solutions recommendations

M Squared will achieve success in this engagement by providing fresh thinking on software quality data, metrics and processes to optimize SW Quality.

Industry Experience

• High Tech industry experience with SW quality leaders; non-client specific
• Significant experience in the software development arena coupled with engineering, mathematics or statistics educational background

• Exceptional knowledge of statistics and statisticals methodologies
• Highly skilled in Excel (including macro creation and Visual Basic)
• Demonstrated experience with bug query tools
• General knowledge of using web tools and posting data to web-sites (web-site creation and modification is a plus)

• Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists
• Demonstrated proactive team member
• Deals well with change of direction and focus
• Commits to deliverables and is timely in their delivery
• Quick study with high energy and stamina...it's the culture

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs182018x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182019xDirector, Traffic AnalysisSan FranciscoCALooksmarthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182019x.shtml?source=latproWe are currently seeking a Director of Traffic Analysis to join the LookSmart Team.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing ad network traffic performance to optimally match traffic supply to advertiser demand
• Developing tools and infrastructure to enable account managers to manage traffic sources for their accounts
• Providing second level support for Account Managers
• Doing deep analysis/data mining of ad network traffic patterns. Developing and maintaining formulas and algorithms to enable sustainable growth of partner business and direct business.
• Building Traffic Analysis function as a core competency and competitive advantage
• Managing and mentoring a small team of analysts

• 3 years experience leading traffic analysis function for a major ad network
• 5 years experience in applied data analysis
• Strong domain expertise in on-line search advertising
• BA in computer science, statistical analysis or related field required, MS or PhD desirable.
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented work

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18071xDirector of AnalyticsKansas CityMOAdKnowledgehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18071x.shtml?source=latproPOSITION: Director of Analytics
ORGANIZATION: Adknowledge
LOCATION: Kansas City, MO
DEPARTMENT: Corporate
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Chief Operating Officer

Company Overview:

Adknowledge is a performance-based advertising network that utilizes powerful predictive technology to connect advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including email, search, messaging, domain, and social networks. Over 50,000 advertisers use the Adknowledge ad network to promote their offers.

Adknowledge has developed patent-pending technologies that use predictive analytics to study consumer response patterns and display the most relevant advertisement possible per impression. The technology enables Adknowledge to deliver search-like quality for advertisers through non-search mediums.

Adknowledge has grown rapidly through the acquisition of Cubics, Mediarun, Lookery, Adonomics and MIVA Media, which includes the brand names Findwhat.com and Espotting. Adknowledge has been recognized by Red Herring and also by AlwaysOn Media as a Top 100 Private Companies award winner.

Founded in 2004, Adknowledge is a privately-held company with more than 180 employees throughout the world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Adknowledge has domestic offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and international offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2006, the company received $48 million in funding from Technology Crossover (TCV) whose portfolio includes C|Net, eHarmony, Fandango, Expedia.com, iVillage, and Netflix.

Department/Team Overview

Focus

Adknowledge provides technology and services to publishers that enable them to deliver highly-targeted advertisements to their users. Adknowledge anonymously tracks behaviors on over 400M unique users. The data analytics team is responsible for managing a 10TB+ data warehouse that aggregates behavior data across a number of Adknowledge business units. The team creates statistical models and algorithms to recommend the right category of offer to a consumer at the right time to maximize response and conversion rates. Techniques include collaborative filters, clustering, and other recommendation systems. Data includes behavioral, geographic, demographic and social graph data.

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 where advertisers purchase ads from Adknowledge.
• A proprietary API known as AdStation, which allows publishers to insert targeted advertisements from Adknowledge into their unsold ad inventory.

• 20+ terabytes of data housed in an open source, distributed data warehouse as well as Oracle, MySQL, and Netezza;
• The promise of cloud computing delivered in reality: extensive use of Hadoop on AWS for production analytics.
• 2000+ servers in 6 data centers worldwide;
• 40+ software engineers;
• 4+ billion consumer impressions served daily;
• Linux technology stack, heavy in Java and LAMP;

Adknowlege’s Director of Analytics will be responsible for improving revenue by managing a team to apply statistical techniques to very large consumer data sets.

1. Team Development: Manage a team of approximately 5 statisticians and 3 engineers including attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining highly talented individuals.
2. Analytics: Gather business requirements from key stakeholders and turn them into actionable analytics projects. Prioritize, set deadlines and mentor a team of statisticians. Create predictive consumer models, analyze traffic patterns and quality and model a large advertiser marketplace.
3. Data Management and Warehousing: Work with very large data sets (10TB+) and architect a distributed data management architecture that can scale to handle rapid growth.
4. Engineering: Manage a team of engineers focused on turning statistical models into production ready deployments. Make key technology decisions and manage vendor relationships. Utilize cloud computing (e.g. AWS) and open source platforms (e.g. Hive, CloudBase) to achieve scalability and efficiency.
5. Project Management: Institute lightweight processes to manage projects and provide visibility to upper management on project status and prioritization.
   

• Articulate strategic technical objectives (quarterly, annual, long-term), and lead the group to achieve them.
• Interact with internal and external customers to ensure continuous customer satisfaction, modifying plans and processes when necessary to maintain reliability and performance.
• All other duties as assigned

The successful candidate will be an analytical, thoughtful and business-minded leader with at least:

• 3+ years of fundamental people management (hiring, coaching, firing).
• 3+ years of experience involved in revenue impacting analysis of very large data sets including data mining, statistical tests and/or simulations.
• Proven experience translating requirements into solutions.
• Strong familiarity with Linux/UNIX, SQL and R.
• Background in software engineering strongly preferred with experience developing in Java.
• Degree in computer science, mathematics or related field.

• Communication Skills: Be comfortable interfacing with senior management, understanding complex business requirements and presenting the pros and cons of various technologies and statistical techniques to nontechnical managers.
• Leader/Builder/Recruiter: Able to attract, motivate and build a disciplined and goal-focused team.
• Resourceful: figure-it-out-and-get-it-done mentality.
• Analytical: An intelligent decision maker.
• Fast Paced: Enjoy rapid change within a small, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture
• Strategic Skills: Have a superior business intellect and understand what to pursue and what to defer within an opportunity-rich environment.

Compensation: Competitive six-figure base salary and equity participation.

Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18072xStatisticianKansas CityMOAdKnowledgehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18072x.shtml?source=latproPOSITION: SR Statistician
ORGANIZATION: Adknowledge
LOCATION: Kansas City, MO
DEPARTMENT: Analytics
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Director of Analytics

Company Overview:

Adknowledge is a performance-based advertising network that utilizes powerful predictive technology to connect advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including email, search, messaging, domain, and social networks. Over 50,000 advertisers use the Adknowledge ad network to promote their offers.

Adknowledge has developed patent-pending technologies that use predictive analytics to study consumer response patterns and display the most relevant advertisement possible per impression. The technology enables Adknowledge to deliver search-like quality for advertisers through non-search mediums.

Adknowledge has grown rapidly through the acquisition of Cubics, Mediarun, Lookery, Adonomics and MIVA Media, which includes the brand names Findwhat.com and Espotting. Adknowledge has been recognized by Red Herring and also by AlwaysOn Media as a Top 100 Private Companies award winner.

Founded in 2004, Adknowledge is a privately-held company with more than 180 employees throughout the world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Adknowledge has domestic offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and international offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2006, the company received $48 million in funding from Technology Crossover (TCV) whose portfolio includes C|Net, eHarmony, Fandango, Expedia.com, iVillage, and Netflix.

Department/Team Overview

Focus

Adknowledge provides technology and services to publishers that enable them to deliver highly-targeted advertisements to their users. Adknowledge anonymously tracks behaviors on over 400M unique users. The data analytics team is responsible for managing a 10TB+ data warehouse that aggregates behavior data across a number of Adknowledge business units. The team creates statistical models and algorithms to recommend the right category of offer to a consumer at the right time to maximize response and conversion rates. Techniques include collaborative filters, clustering, and other recommendation systems. Data includes behavioral, geographic, demographic and social graph data.

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 where advertisers purchase ads from Adknowledge.
• A proprietary API known as AdStation, which allows publishers to insert targeted advertisements from Adknowledge into their unsold ad inventory.

• 20+ terabytes of data housed in an open source, distributed data warehouse as well as Oracle, MySQL, and Netezza;
• The promise of cloud computing delivered in reality: extensive use of Hadoop on AWS for production analytics.
• 500+ Linux servers;
• LAMP based platform mixed with some C, C++, and Oracle
• A cloud running Hadoop, DHT, and other distributed services.

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.

Position Overview:

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Troubleshoot: Analyze and troubleshoot our proprietary targeting system to ensure optimal revenue is attained.
   

Candidate Overview:

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

• 2+ years in data mining, statistical analysis
• Expertise in statistical software (R, S-Plus, SAS or similar)
• Prior experience in on line advertising preferred
• Experience working with datasets containing at least millions of records.
• Non-academic SQL development with any DBMS, Oracle preferred

• Passion for Technology: Excitement for new technology, bleeding edge applications, and a positive attitude towards solving real world challenges.
• Team Player: Work in a highly collaborative environment. This includes evaluating concepts, debating ideas, and helping others move projects forward.
• Detail oriented: accuracy and attention to detail is very important in this position.
• Analytical: Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to research and analyze data from a variety of sources.
• Pragmatic: The ability to translate theoretical results into business applications. This includes identifying and understanding the business need, formulating and evaluating possible solutions, completing the exploratory and predictive phases of analysis, and moving the recommended solution into production.

PhD in Mathematics, Statistics or Econometrics or any other mathematical field. Equivalent work experience along with a MS is also acceptable.

Compensation: Based on Experience

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18076xSenior Statistical Modeler / Marketing ScientistCincinnatiOHThinkVinehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18076x.shtml?source=latpro

ThinkVine, a privately-held, venture-backed, marketing science solutions company is accepting resumes for a Senior Statistical Modeler / Marketing Scientist in our Cincinnati office. This position will support a wide variety of analytic initiatives in ThinkVine's consulting group. These include segmentation, consumer behavior analysis, sales forecasting, response prediction, advertising effectiveness, market mix modeling and ROI measurement. The candidate may be involved at all levels of a project, such as research design, data manipulation, analysis, reporting and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Designs, plans, executes and interprets quantitative analysis of customer data.
• Assists with data cleaning, recoding and variable transformations for analysis.
• Performs data diagnostics and other quality control checks to ensure accuracy of work.
• Writes and presents clear, effective, actionable findings based on analyses.
• Illustrates data graphically and translates complex findings into clear, concise visuals.
• Distills insights from the analysis to offer business recommendations by identifying meaningful consumer indicators and trends.

• Expert knowledge of SPSS or other statistical package (e.g. SAS, STATA).
• Practical experience conducting statistical techniques such as regression analysis, factor analysis, and clustering.
• An understanding of the underlying models, when to apply them, how to conduct the analysis and interpret the insights derived from the results.
• Ability to write clear and insightful reports in PowerPoint.
• Experience working with various types of data, including data sourced from consumer surveys, as well as from large (and often messy) customer databases. Ability to extract, clean and format data for analysis.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, but also able to solve problems independently.
• Graduate degree preferred in an analytic field such as statistics, economics, mathematics, psychology, sociology or business.
• At least three years of experience in market research, database analysis or other areas that emphasizes the analysis and reporting of business data.

• Econometric and other quantitative skills are a plus, such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, Bayesian estimation, mathematical optimizations and simulation techniques.
• Ability to develop experimental designs and conduct analysis for conjoint/choice modeling.
• Ability to program in Excel using VBA.
• Experience with Business Intelligence and Data Mining Applications.

Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18077xManagerJercey CityNJISO Innovative Analyticshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18077x.shtml?source=latproDirector (or Manager) of Analytic Applications and Research

Company Overview:

ISO Innovative Analytics (iiA), a unit of ISO, is an insurance solutions company specializing in applying advanced analytic techniques and data management skills to the challenge of accurately assessing risk in the property and casualty insurance industry. Our clients include many of the nation's leading property and casualty insurers. We combine vast data resources with leading edge predictive modeling techniques to create the most accurate risk models in the industry. Our clients use these models to give them a competitive advantage in executing their marketing, underwriting and pricing strategies. Our market position allows us to dedicate unparalleled time and talent to solving the industry's analytic challenges. iiA is an equal opportunity employer.

Responsibilities:

The Analytic Applications and Research area of ISO Innovative Analytics serves a critical function by connecting Analytical R&D efforts with key Customer groups. It provides the crucial “translation” function, allowing R&D activities to progress unencumbered, while enabling their success by positioning them with key stakeholder groups including – Regulators, potential Customers, and Development partners. In addition, this area utilizes feedback from these stakeholders to develop prototypes of new analytical efforts.

In addition to familiarity with analytical techniques and predictive modeling, the successful candidate must be an accomplished communicator, with demonstrated experience in dealing with internal and external stakeholders. The position requires communication with customer/regulators and includes some amount of travel (20-50%).

The Director (or Manager) of the Analytic Applications and Research function will take a leadership role and will work closely with the Executive team to set direction, role, and activities for Analytic Applications and Research function. Broad responsibilities of the function include –

• Leading proof-of-concept studies to demonstrate value of new analytical efforts
  • Collaborating with other iiA researchers, including academic research partners, to develop prototype initiatives
  • Communicating results of these studies to executive leadership team and other stakeholders

• Supporting the Productization of Analytical Tools
  • Performing state-specific model adjustments, smoothing, geo-spatial analyses, sub-group testing, etc.
  • Supporting the Filing team with analysis, reason-code explanations, and on-the-ground support such as DOI visits (if needed)
  • Working with R&D and Product Management to determine specs for model implementation in production

• Developing analyses to support Marketing/Sales activities
  • Establishing novel ways of assessing the business impact/value of model lift
  • Performing comparative studies (e.g., ISO models vs Credit, etc.) to help position ISO solutions
  • Writing white-papers and helping develop Sales/Marketing collateral

• Customizing industry models for Development partners
  • Performing GLM and other modeling (as appropriate) to build custom models for development partners (leveraging Industry models developed by the R&D teams)
  • Presenting model results to Development partners, including lift-analyses

• Providing technical support for Sales activities
  • Setting-up processes for analyzing and demonstrating “lift” for Pilot testers
  • Working with Pilot testing carriers to in-source data, perform lift analysis, and communicate results
  • Providing technical expertise on Sales calls with potential customers

• Advanced quantitative degree (Masters or PhD) with experience building and/or managing predictive modeling initiatives is required
• 8+ years of experience in Analytics is required, with 3+ years of experience in P&C insurance (preferably in Actuarial functions).
• Demonstrated P&C domain knowledge through qualifications such as FCAS/ACAS or CPCU is a plus.
• Experience with filing rating plans or working with Departments of Insurance is a big plus.
• Project and team leadership experience is required. Experience working with customers is a big plus.
• Knowledge and experience with diverse statistical and data mining methods (e.g., GLM/Regression, Trees, Neural nets, SVMs, etc.) is desirable.
• Ability to lead initiatives, plan activities and resources, work hands-on, manage/develop staff, and mentor junior members, is required
• Must be self-motivated and passionate about creating analytical solutions for diverse and challenging problems.
• Team-player, with strong communication, motivational, and mentoring skills.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18078xDirector of AnalyticsWestchesterNYAllianthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18078x.shtml?source=latproDirector of Analytics

Alliant is looking for a Director of Analytics to work in our northern Westchester, New York office. This is a key position, responsible for providing technical leadership and managing the work processes and output of our team of analysts and statisticians. He/she will work actively with the account management and sales teams to set analytic objectives. The ideal candidate will have a wide-range of experience building regression models and presenting the results to marketing teams, senior management and clients. Additionally, candidates should have the ability to develop new methodologies building on existing intellectual capital.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong quantitative/analytical skills and extensive attention to detail
• High energy level; flexible, adaptive, inquisitive and keen understanding of technology
• Experience managing a team of highly skilled statisticians and programmers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with large-scale databases, PC software and database manipulation

• Graduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or related field
• 8+ years experience in statistical analysis, segmentation, predictive modeling, consulting and project management
• 5+ years Direct Marketing Industry experience
• Extensive experience programming in SAS
• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL a plus
• Experience in defining/designing/building/managing a data warehouse is a plus
• Working knowledge of Web Analytics and/or Consumer Risk Management practices a plus

About Alliant:

Alliant delivers consumer segmentation solutions that help marketers identify their top prospects and customers, creating higher levels of profit in direct and interactive marketing campaigns. Alliant’s proprietary Cooperative Performance databases are built from historical transaction-level customer records contributed by many of the world’s leading direct response marketers, powering marketing decisions with a rich, detailed source of consumer behavioral information. Alliant’s data-driven analytic solutions deliver increases in response and average order size, minimize payment risk, enable mining of new acquisition sources, and increase the success of customer retention and reactivation efforts for direct and interactive marketers. Based in Brewster, NY, Alliant is a Landmark Interactive company. Our web site is at www.alliantdata.com.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18079xStatisticianWestchesterNYAllianthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18079x.shtml?source=latproStatistician

Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions is looking for a statistician to work in our northern Westchester, New York office. This position will be mostly responsible for building predictive models and performing customer segmentation. The ideal candidate will have a wide-range of experience building regression models and presenting the results to senior management. Additionally, candidates should be familiar with large-scale databases, PC software, and database manipulation.

We are looking for candidates with:

• 2 - 5 years experience building predictive models
• Extensive experience programming in SAS and advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
• Strong quantitative/analytical skills and extensive attention to detail
• High energy level; flexible, adaptive, inquisitive and keen understanding of technology
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Graduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or related field
• Direct Marketing Industry experience a plus
• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL a plus
• Local candidates preferred

Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions is a Consumer Reporting Agency serving clients in the Direct Marketing industry. Alliant maintains a proprietary database of contributed consumer purchasing behavior which is used to predict the response and payment performance of marketing lists. Our team is a blend of experienced professionals with a wealth of Direct Marketing experience in marketing, analytics, list sales, risk consulting, product development and advertising. This is a great opportunity to join a growing company with vast opportunities and a strong corporate culture.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. Compensation will be based on salary and performance-based bonus. US citizens or permanent residents only please. Please send resume with salary requirements, include job name in subject line of email and address to: careers@alliantdata.com

Keywords:

SAS, SQL, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, risk management, direct marketing, Unix, logistic regression, statistician

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18081xDirector, Data Strategy & AnalyticsNew YorkNYhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18081x.shtml?source=latproAre you ready to join a high energy and fun new company in NYC working with a dedicated and talented team? We are looking for a true high level mathematics and statistics guru who is interested in becoming a thought leader and change agent in the $70B TV advertising marketplace. This hands-on manager must have experience in advising C-Level key business decisions using complex models they personally developed.

Only true statisticians need apply.

Key Skills:

• Thought Leadership. Design and construct analytical models.
• Expert knowledge of complex analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis.
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts.

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. This fast-paced start up is pioneering the development of predictive technology using a variety of data sources to help television companies deliver the right on-air promotions to the right viewers at the right time.

The Director, Data Strategy & Analytics (DS&A) drives Simulmedia’s data strategy. We need someone who is a leader of people and ideas. The candidate will conceive and implement the statistical and analytical methods necessary to understand television consumption habits of viewers and their responses to on-air promotion. The Director, DS&A will work closely with senior leadership, product and technology teams to refine and take to market Simulmedia’s offering.

The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, creative, and with a voracious, wide-ranging curiosity. She/he should have a strong applied math or computer science background and should have 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets.

The Director DSA’s responsibilities include:

• Developing, validating and maintaining audience data models and clustering/segmentation algorithms
• Designing requirements for structures to host data and support analytical applications required for the services
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts
• Identifying new sources of data to improve and enrich services
• Conceiving and implementing the analytical applications useful to media and marketing partners and conveying audience insights

• Expert knowledge of analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
• Power user of canned statistical analysis software (e.g. SAS, SPSS or Oracle data mining tools)
• 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets
• Strong data modeling and querying capability
• Master’s level degree (or equivalent expertise/knowledge) in quantitative or analytical discipline such as Statistics, Decision Sciences, Operations Research or Econometrics.
• 3-5 years experience developing analytical models in marketing, finance, advertising or economics.
• 2+ years leading a team of analysts
• Working knowledge of one or more software development languages expected (Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Perl)
• Marketing intuition and familiarity with the attention economy a plus

Please include Job number - Job 205

We offer competitive salary, benefits, vacation, stock options and a stake in our company’s success. For consideration please send your resume with a cover letter and salary history to Job 205, Director, DSA careers@simulmedia.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No search firms or phone calls please.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18082xSoftware Engineer Computational LinguisticsBostonMAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18082x.shtml?source=latproWe are a data driven start-up looking for a CTO to build a social media analytics application using Natural Language Processing with experience in web-scraping and text mining. Candidate will develop methodologies to find sentiment (sentiment in context, polarity, intensity, relationships between issues and reasons for issues), tuning for less formal content (tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech (POS) tagging, parsing, etc.) and finding embedded meaning and intelligence in less grammatical text. Experience in predictive modeling in data mining a plus.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years experience in a relevant field such as software engineering, machine learning programming, et al.
• The drive to work in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary start-up environment.
• A strong interest in online social networks and network/user dynamics.
• PhD in a computational linguistics or artificial intelligence is required.
• Experience with Python/MySQL/R and SaaS is preferred but not required.
• Excellent documentation skills & whitepaper authoring.
• Patent filing experience preferred.
• Experience in database design and search algorithms.

Currently seeking office space so ability to work remotely is a must.

Learn more: http://www.socialtality.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18083xSr. Consultant with Current, Active TS/SCI US Government ClearanceArlingtonVAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18083x.shtml?source=latproOpportunity for Sr. Consultant with Current, Active TS/SCI US Government Clearance – Individuals without TS/SCI or higher clearance level will not be considered

Location: Arlington, VA

Salary: $120K - $140K based on experience; Additional quarterly-bonus potential, based on overall company performance, exists.

For consideration, send resumes in Word to elena@williamstison.com.

Elena Howard, Principal at Williams Tison, LLC (www.williamstison.com) is conducting this search on behalf of client and may be reached for follow up at 703-830-7251.

As a Senior Consultant within the Global Services & Solutions team of a major Predictive Analytics firm, your primary responsibility will be to assist customers to achieve successful implementations of our Predictive Analytics Solution. The Senior Consultant will be proficient in delivering consulting services in more than one product line. This individual will help build ROI and identify cross-sell / up-sell opportunities for the product lines. The Senior Consultant has domain understanding and is able to work with current technical approaches as well as various solutions of company products and applications within the domain. This individual will also work with senior level consultants to develop consistent collateral and messaging.

The position requires a background in analytical software with a track record of successful implementations and a strong commercial acumen. In addition, the ability to define Solutions and ensure their successful implementation is required.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality consulting services in more than one product line
• Have domain understanding and solve typical domain issues. Work with various solutions of (COMPANY) products and applications within that domain.
• Help build ROI and identify cross-sell / up-sell opportunities
• Work with more senior level consultants to develop consistent collateral and messaging
• Assist Project Managers in the determination of customer needs
• Assist in the development of the Project Plan and Statement of Work, as and when required
• Assist in the investigation of feasibility of given consulting opportunities
• Understand customer business problems and (COMPANY) capabilities in order to recommend additional (COMPANY) products or applications
• Assist and guide external consultants with the completion of consulting projects
• Help train and mentor more junior consultants
• Keep up-to-date with competitor information and how this relates to our capabilities
• Produce Project Summaries for large-scale projects – defining business, business problem, (COMPANY) approach to solving problem, ROI
• Work with Professional Services Director and Sales to develop demonstrations/marketing collateral
• Maintain currency with (COMPANY) Inc. product focus areas
• Assist Sales in closing solution sales through either phone conferences or on-site visits
• Regularly update Project Managers of project status
• Attend external training courses related to fulfilling (COMPANY) consulting projects
• When required, travel to customer site to evaluate opportunity or to perform fulfillment of work
• Attend consulting meetings, when required
• Update (COMPANY) time tracking systems on a weekly basis
• Ensure personal utilization targets are met
• Use proactive measures to support sales process and generate additional revenue

• TS SCI active US government clearance or higher
• A bachelor’s degree in Applied Statistics, Data Mining or that containing a strong quantitative component, or equivalent work experience
• 4-7 years working in a similar role and customer facing environment with a software or consulting services provider
• Experience with projects that involve integrating multiple technologies and datasets to solve a business problem.
• Experience using at least 1 of the following
  • A BI Reporting tool
  • A multidimensional database product
  • A statistical modeling tool
  • A data mining tool
  • A market research tool
• Skills associated with any of the following product lines or Applications, namely:
  • Predictive Applications
  • SPSS Base
  • Clementine
  • Dimensions
  • ShowCase Suite
  Predictive Enterprise Services

• Good problem solver with strong business acumen
• Very strong customer service orientation
• Excellent communicator, including cross-cultural
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Good presentation, organizational, and planning skills
• Understanding of real-time operating systems an advantage
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to absorb new ideas and concepts quickly
• Experience leading in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Able to work with minimum supervision
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Drive – looking for evidence of ability to see projects through to completion
• Ability to influence customer technology decisions

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all tasks. Responsibility and requirements may be changed without notice, at the sole discretion of (COMPANY), Inc.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18086xComputational BiologistIndianapolisINDow AgroScienceshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18086x.shtml?source=latproR&D Operational Excellence
Job Number 0803155

Dow AgroSciences LLC, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, is a top-tier agricultural company that combines the power of science and technology with the Human Element to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. Dow AgroSciences provides innovative technologies for crop protection, pest and vegetation management, seeds, traits, and agricultural biotechnology to serve the world's growing population. Global sales for Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, are $4.5 billion. Learn more at www.dowagro.com.

Dow AgroSciences (DAS) seeks a Computational Biologist to assist in the design of experiments and the integration and analyses of omics datasets. This position is located in Indianapolis, IN, USA. The successful candidate will join the Computational Biology group of the R&D Operational Excellence function and will support all functions within DAS R&D.

Key job responsibilities will include development and application of computational biology, mathematical, and statistical algorithms and software to mine biological datasets. Design of biological experiments, analysis, interpretation and presentation of results are expected, as well as identification and implementation of new quantitative methods that improve the integrity and efficiency of the DAS product development cycle. Topics of interest include inferring accurate biological (metabolomic, proteomic and genetic) networks from large datasets, bioinformatics, proteomics, metabolomics, flux analysis, genomics, epigenetics, transcriptomics, information theory, dynamic Bayesian networks, ordinary differential equations, machine learning, support vector machines, instance-based algorithms, and decision trees.

Qualifications:

• The position requires Ph.D. in mathematics, physics, bioengineering, statistics, computer sciences or a closely related field. Two or more years of experience after graduate school is preferable, but not required.
• A solid foundation on analyses of omics data is required.
• Demonstrated ability to write scientific papers is also desirable.
• Strong communication skills are essential along with an ability to collaborate effectively with both laboratory and field scientists.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18087xSupply Chain Analytical Team, multiple positionsChicagoILhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18087x.shtml?source=latproManagement Recruiters of Seneca has a very large client in the northern Chicago suburbs that is building a Supply Chain Analytical Team and has asked us to find qualified candidates to fill multiple positions at various levels - Analysts, Sr. Analysts, Managers.

Qualified people will have a strong background in data analysis, modeling, statistical research, forecasting and data mining, with proven database skills in Access, SQL Server, Excel, etc. Experience in a fast paced, high volume Supply Chain/Inventory Management environment within a large Manufacturing and/or Distribution organization is a must.

If you have an interest in learning more, please send a current resume to resume@mriseneca.com (it won't go out to anyone without your approval) and let us know when you can talk freely. Unlike most recruiters, we will let you know who the client is, where, how much money, etc. if your skill set does meet the requirements. We know this has to be a fit for you as well as our client!

We look forward to hearing from you.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18088xSpecialistRockvilleMDKDDhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18088x.shtml?source=latproCompany: FINRA
Position: Specialist-KDD
Location: Rockville, MD
Web: www.finra.org

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA oversees nearly 5,000 brokerage firms, 173,000 branch offices and 656,000 registered securities representatives. FINRA's mission is to protect investors by maintaining the fairness of the U.S. capital markets.

In support of FINRA's Market Regulation staff, this position is responsible for defining, constructing and maintaining electronic surveillance programs designed to identify potential rule violations and/or market manipulation resulting in investor harm. Successful candidate is responsible for ensuring that assigned surveillance program areas reflects business and technical needs, and meets all end user requirements, including:

• Working closely with Regulatory Business managers to elicit business requirements from Regulation managers and staff.
• Analyzing large data sets, specifically Stock Market transactional data to prepare and present electronic surveillance program specifications.
• Encoding, testing, debugging and documenting surveillance programs and procedures.
• Monitoring and adapting electronic surveillance changes to address industry changes, data issues, participant behavior, and/or rule changes.
• Maintaining relationships with business users, internal and/or external participants. The ideal candidate is a quick learner and a clear communicator of abstract ideas, is able to work with minimal supervision, and is highly motivated and proficient in business/data analysis and SQL/SAS programming working with large data sets. Specific experience and job requirements include:
• Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years progressive experience in analyzing business needs and developing technical solutions.
• Ability to use SQL statements, TOAD/WinSQL, etc to extract and analyze large data sets.
• Ability to merge, manage, manipulate and analyze various data sets.
• Extreme attention to details.
• Strong proficiency in SAS; Experience with C++ and SQL
• Excellent people, communications and project management skills.
• A strong ability to adapt and problem solve.

All interested candidates can apply to our website at www.finra.org/careeropportunities.

Title: Specialist
Job Code: 2025

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18089xDatabase Marketing AnalystGermantownMDDatalab USAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18089x.shtml?source=latproCareer Description:

Database Marketing Analyst - Due to our continued growth we have an immediate need for a Database Marketing Analyst to further expand the capabilities of our award winning analytics team. The cross client position will be responsible for the development and maintenance of the analytical framework that meet the business goals of large scale direct marketing programs.

JOB SUMMARY:

• Analyze the effectiveness of existing predictive models and optimization strategies.
• Manage the full life cycle of model builds.
• Interface directly with clients to consult on the effectiveness of marketing programs.

• Analysis of entire business problems and management solution delivery.
• Management and development of the full life cycle of model builds.
• Programming with SQL.
• Working with extremely large datasets/datawarehouses.
• Strong data mining proficiency.
• SAS/CART/TREENET experience is a plus.

• Aptitude in critical thinking and problem solving.
• Ability to set priorities and work independently and with a team to meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal effectively in a team environment.

Bachelor's degree from a top-tier four-year college or university. Minimum 3 years of database marketing and data mining experience. Applicable experience with the Insurance and Financial industries is a strong advantage.

About Datalab USA

DataLab USA provides unrivaled data based support to marketing-oriented organizations. We combine state-of-the-art technology with practical, hands-on experience to offer a full range of services including data analysis, predictive modeling, data processing, and database management services. We offer a competitive, comprehensive compensation package, challenging work, and excellent career growth potential. Please submit cover letter and resume along with salary requirements and references to: jobs@datalabusa.com. No phone calls please.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18091xSr Manager of Analytics, Online AdvertisingCambridgeMAAkamaihttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18091x.shtml?source=latproAbout Akamai
If you use the Internet for anything - to check sports scores, book a hotel, track an order, or watch a movie trailer online - you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it. Akamai is the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. An S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 company, Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and collaborate for more than 2,000 enterprises. Akamai - Powering a Better Internet.

About the Team

You will be joining Akamai's Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) team - a new division focused on bringing to market a set of behavioral targeting products for the online advertising space. These solutions enable more precise, scalable, and efficient online advertising. You will be working with the largest Publishers, Advertisers, and Ad Networks on the Internet today.

About the Job

ADS's mission is to leverage Akamai's unique position in the Internet ecosystem - carrying web traffic for the premier ad networks, publishers, and advertisers - to reduce friction and expand the behaviorally targeted advertising ecosystem. By eliminating cumbersome pixel-based data sharing systems and inflexible segmentation systems, ADS intends to become a key part of online advertising universe. Our system has already been adopted by many of the leading advertisers and ad networks.

ADS also contains one of the Internets premier databases of online retail behavior - over 100 million anonymous user profiles based on data collected from over 500 retail and product manufacturer web sites. In Q4 2008, over $6.5M of revenue was generated from predictive analytics based products.

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for one of the critical aspects of the business - unlocking the value of data by leading our data modeling efforts. Initial responsibilities will include development of an incremental response methodology, multivariate testing, and systematic exploration of alternate data preparation and modeling approaches to optimize profit. Follow on-work may include segmentation and automatic text classification. This role will manage a small (1-3 person) team, and there will be an opportunity to grow and lead a larger analytics effort as the business unit expands.

Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS degree, advanced degree in Statistics, Computer Science, or Operations preferred
• Overall Experience: 5+ years of experience in applied data mining and modeling
• Experience in direct mail on in online behavioral advertising
• Research or related quantitative disciplines
• Substantial experience with one or more of the major data mining toolsets (SAS EM, SPSS Clementine, KXEN AF) and linear or logistic regression
• Ability to oversee development and develop in SQL, scripting languages, etc.
• Strong understanding of the data mining techniques (clustering, decision trees, SVM)
• Expertise in model design, variable selection and analytic record construction
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with automated text/web classification is a plus
• Prior management experience preferred

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18092xAnalytics ManagerAtlantaGAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18092x.shtml?source=latproJob Summary -(Role Summary)

Manage strategic and tactical analytics of all projects for the Product Management Department. Lead a team that provides analytical support for various projects including analysis, reporting, making new data sources accessible and market research. Develop analytical tools to measure the performance of various marketing initiatives across Global Distribution Marketing and also track the success of a product thru its life cycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities -(Key Activities)

• Manage the analysis of results of all business programs for the Product Management department
• Develop new methodology to track new products for the team from conception to completion and then ongoing tracking. Exploring and accessing new data sources and making these available to the business unit for self service.
• Oversee the creation of statistical methodology using SAS to better measure success of products and marketing initiatives from a pre and post launch perspective.
• Maintain cutting edge levels of web analytics for the team to be able to use the latest technology available to Product Management for web related projects, like split testing, conversion analysis, design improvements and online surveys.
• Proactively consult with business functional areas (Product mgmt., Americas Channel Analysis, Distribution Technology etc), to set analysis objectives.
• Provide results of these analysis in a format that is easy for the business units to understand and also maintain these results for future use (in a resource repository)
• Oversee the creation of statistical models for distribution business processes. Lead the team in the use of data mining software, and statistical/computational methods in order to take business needs and conceptualize queries that transform data from relational and flat-file database structures to achieve analytical objectives including statistical techniques for post promotion analysis and response modeling.
• Coach and develop team members; hire, fire, assess, discipline, document performance, recommend salary and classifications changes. Act as an advisor to subordinate staff to help meet established schedules and/or resolve technical or operational problems.

Education

Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or other quantitative discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.

Experience

6 -8 years progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines/processes related to the position including relational decision-support databases (preferably a data-warehousing environment), along with demonstrated quantitative/computational skills and web analytics.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing information to clients, vendors, senior management and staff and ability to prepare and deliver solid presentations to both small and large groups.
• Good communication strategy demonstrated for working with off-shore and remote teams.
• Experience with statistical software (SAS, SPSS) and on-line analytical processing tools.
• Must be proficient in the use of business software products such as Excel, Microsoft Access, Word, PowerPoint
• In depth knowledge of Web Analytics tools and vendors and working knowledge of industry trends.
• Demonstrated knowledge of internal business drivers and metrics and trends to be analyzed.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing analysis of distribution marketing and understands online and offline differences and effective uses for both.
• Demonstrate project management experience in organizing, planning and executing large Ð scale projects from conception through implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects concurrently with rapid turn around and high quality deliverables required.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18093xSenior Researcher, DataRushAustinTXPervasivehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18093x.shtml?source=latproJob Description:

Pervasive is seeking a Data Mining expert to support research and development of our Data Rush technology. The ideal candidate will research into potential future directions and current applications for Data Rush. Responsibilities include research into Data Mining in new application areas, cutting-edge technology research and implementation.

Required Experience and Education:

• Masters or PhD in Applied Math or Statistics or similar field.
• Strong background in Data modeling and mining, statistics, information theory, text-mining, data analysis, and other data mining techniques is a requirement
• Sound knowledge of standard computer science data structures and algorithms
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in formulating and solving large scale mathematical optimization problem
• The candidate should be able to code in Java, C/C++ and to a lesser extend Perl or similar language
• Proven ability to design and implement computational algorithms
• We are prepared to train you in some areas to augment your programming skill set. However, we do not believe it will be possible to perform this job without the required background in statistics, information theory, coding, data modeling and mining

• SQL databases and standard data analysis software
• Ability to use Rapid-Miner, S-Plus, Mat Lab, and Insightful Miner
• Experience developing/designing large software system

E-mail resume with cover letter to: Sonja.Coleman [at] pervasive.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18094xSenior Pricing AnalystSan FranciscoCAHotwirehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18094x.shtml?source=latproCompany Overview:

Day one. Step into the Hotwire offices. You'll be instantly greeted by a fun, fast-paced atmosphere. Working here, you'll be surrounded by a bright, motivated group of individuals who share a common goal—to make international and domestic travel-planning easy.

So what makes us Hotwire? Many wonderfully distinct things, including:

• Our open work environment
• People work hard, but get the opportunity to play hard outside the office
• Company-organized outings, including parties, charity events and volunteer days
• Great travel perks
• Vibrant startup atmosphere, yet the stability of being part of Expedia, Inc.
• Opportunities to grow
• An all-inclusive, diverse culture

Welcome. Now prepare for career take-off.

Hotwire.com is a leading discount travel Web site with consistently lower prices on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages. Launched in 2000 with funding from six major airlines, Hotwire negotiates deep discounts from its travel suppliers to help sell their excess inventory. Hotwire is a wholly owned subsidiary of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) and is based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit www.hotwire.com

Job Description:

The Revenue Management team at Hotwire is a strategic group responsible for identifying and driving significant revenue growth across all products. We admit that “revenue management” doesn’t sound like the most exciting thing in the world. But in fact this team and position offer an unparalleled opportunity to get exposure to multiple areas of the business and have significant impact. We work closely with other functions – product development, marketing, customer operations, and finance – with the express goal of using advanced analytics to inform decision making and drive performance. We are responsible for CRM analytics, financial forecasting, and product pricing for different Hotwire lines of business such as Hotel, Car, and Travel Ticker. As an analyst on the team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing programs in these areas to maximize Hotwire’s profitability.

So if you like variety, if you like learning and if you like having a meaningful and measurable impact, then this might be the position for you. Oh! And data. You have to like data. We love data here. We love it more than pizza. More than Oscar-winning movies. Seriously. We love data.

Core responsibilities:

• Closely monitor and diagnose consumer data to drive pricing changes
• Recommend and implement segmentation and pricing tactics that optimize profits
• Deploy, test, and manage pricing rules through the business rules engine
• Provide management with market and/or trend information, needed to make strategic decisions
• Develop consumer and pricing insights from sophisticated data-driven analysis that result in specific action plans
• Lead the development and evolution of analytical models establishing objectives, key metrics, and test plans
• Manage cross-functional ad hoc research requests
• Support periodic (annual, quarterly, monthly) budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting process

• Masters degree with 2-3 years of experience in a quantitative discipline (Industrial Engineering, Statistics, etc)
• Strong quantitative analysis, data-mining, and technical skills
• Strong business sense and logical skills to balance data-driven decisions with intuition
• Passionate about data, ability to work with large data-sets
• Experience using business intelligence and statistical analysis tools (e.g., Microstrategy, SQL, SAS, R)
• Prior experience in pricing, database-marketing or other quantitative area
• Prior experience with time series and forecasting
• Prior experience in leading cross-functional projects
• Prior exposure to CRM analytics a plus
• Experience using business rules management systems a plus
• Programming experience a plus

No Phone Calls Please
No Agencies or Recruiters

Email your resume with cover letter to: a-kcannon [at] hotwire.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18096xStatisticianNeedhamMAHebrew SeniorLifehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18096x.shtml?source=latproHebrew SeniorLife (HSL) is a 100+-year-old organization dedicated to providing seniors with the highest quality of life through an integrated network of health care, research, housing and teaching programs in the Greater Boston area. It is the largest nonprofit provider of senior health care and housing in New England. Our mission is to honor our elders by respecting and promoting their independence, spiritual vigor, dignity and choice and by recognizing that they are a resource to be cherished. Our health-care network comprises Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, a long-term, sub-acute, and long-term medical acute care facility in Boston; three senior housing sites: Jack Satter House in Revere, Simon C. Fireman Community in Randolph, and Center Communities of Brookline; and Orchard Cove, a life-care community in Canton. The Institute for Aging Research in Boston, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is one of the most prestigious aging research facilities in the country. HSL?s NewBridge on the Charles, our premier multigenerational continuing care retirement community in Dedham, consists of 256 independent living units, 50 assisted living units, 41 memory support assisted living units, and a 268-bed Health Care Center, which offers long-term and sub-acute care. Hebrew SeniorLife also offers services to the community, including Adult Day Health programs and outpatient clinics in audiology, exercise, memory disorders, osteoporosis screening, and rehabilitation.

The Statistician will be responsible for analyzing and interpreting data from various sources using standard statistical analysis software. Prepares reports, charts, and tables summarizing data and analyses. Maintain expertise in statistical analysis methods. Provides consultative service to investigators (e.g., methodology, design, analysis, sample size and power calculations). Collaborate with the project investigator, specify equations or algorithms for derived or constructed variables. Perform statistical and programming, including advanced programming (macros, custom programs) in SAS, SPSS, STATA, etc.

Position requires a Ph. D degree in statistics or biostatistics (or closely related field such as medical statistics, biometrics, epidemiology, medical informatics, biopharmaceutical statistics) 2-3 years of experience in a related field. Proficiency using standard statistical software (e.g., SAS, SPSS, STATA, Splus) to write programs to perform statistical analyses and prepare graphical displays of data. Excellent analytical skills required.

Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) is an equal opportunity employer, and we offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package, as well as many opportunities for personal and professional growth. If you are motivated by new opportunities and seek a stimulating and rewarding career, we invite you to join our diverse team of talented professionals who are dedicated to helping seniors and their families. Everything we do flows from these tenets and are further inspired by the duty of tikkun olam - to heal the world.

Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18097xPrincipal Engineer / Applied ScientistSan JoseCAeBayhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18097x.shtml?source=latproeBay is the world's largest online marketplace - where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. With a presence in 39 markets, including the U.S., and approximately 84 million active users worldwide, eBay has changed the face of Internet commerce. In 2007, the total value of sold items on eBay's trading platforms was nearly $60 billion. This means that eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,900 worth of goods on the site every second.

We are building a new team focused on using machine learning for merchandising and targeting on eBay with an initial charter to build a personalized merchandising system with near real-time feedback. If you are excited about building machine learning systems that serve a huge web audiences and advanced data mining solutions on petabytes of data - then this job is for you!

To learn more about the work and the team, please visit the LinkedIn profile of the hiring manager - Harshal Deo

Principal Engineer / Applied Scientist

About the OpportunityThis is a hands-on position with algorithm development and tuning responsibility for on line machine learning systems. The ideal candidate will be either a strong engineer with machine learning experience or a scientist with hands-on programming experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop machine learning algorithms and solutions.
• Design, train and deploy machine learning based models.
• Build, enhance and maintain various software components of the machine learning platform.
• Learn / understand marketing business problems and design creative and scalable solutions.
• Analyze large datasets - built from Petabyte scale data - to tune the models and algorithms for relevancy and targeting.

• Experienced engineer with machine learning experience or a scientist with hands-on programming experience.
• Machine learning / information retrieval / large data mining /Text mining experience.
• Understanding of statistics, Bayesian probability.
• Expert level programming skills with one scripting language like Perl / Python.
• Strong programming skills specifically working with C/C++ or Java. Experience with large databases / files and in memory data structures.
• Large dataset experience preferably working with complex enterprise / web datasets.

• BS / MS in computer science or related field and 7 to 10 years of related programming experience or PhD in computer science with 3 to 5 years of hands on programming experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications in a 'large data' environment is a must.

Hiring Manager: Harshal Deo

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18098xData Mining EngineerSan JoseCAeBayhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18098x.shtml?source=latproeBay is the world's largest online marketplace - where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. With a presence in 39 markets, including the U.S., and approximately 84 million active users worldwide, eBay has changed the face of Internet commerce. In 2007, the total value of sold items on eBay's trading platforms was nearly $60 billion. This means that eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,900 worth of goods on the site every second.

We are building a new team focused on using machine learning for merchandising and targeting on eBay with an initial charter to build a personalized merchandising system with near real-time feedback. If you are excited about building machine learning systems that serve a huge web audiences and advanced data mining solutions on petabytes of data - then this job is for you!

To learn more about the work and the team, please visit the LinkedIn profile of the hiring manager - Harshal Deo

Principal Data Mining Engineer

About the Opportunity

This position is part of a newly created Machine learning solutions team focused on merchandising and targeting at eBay. The individual who occupies this role will be in a hands-on leadership position with end-to-end responsibility for scalable machine learning solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work with a cross functional team (engineering, research and analytics) and provide data mining leadership to the team.
• Design advanced data mining solutions for mining Petabytes of data!
• Design and develop creative visualization and analytics tools for speeding data driven machine learning applications development.
• Lead, design and develop the data transformations needed for producing machine learning data sets.
• Learn / understand the marketing business problems and enable targeted solutions design using bottom up data driven design approach.
• Design tools & processes to help the analysts and research scientists to be more productive.

• Experienced software / research / data engineer with expert level database (SQL, data modeling) and programming skills.
• Solid understanding of data mining, analytics and visualization tools and libraries. Candidates with experience using those on large datasets preferred.
• Significant programming skills with one scripting language like Perl / Python. Or expert level reporting / ETL experience.
• Hands-on programming experience with languages such as C/C++ or Java, working with large databases / files and in memory data structures.
• Large dataset experience preferably working with com plex enterprise / web datasets - preferred.
• Understanding of machine learning / data mining / statistics is a plus but not required
• Need to be a team player with good cross functional / collaboration skills.

• BS / MS in computer science or related field and 7 to 10 years of related programming experience or r PhD in computer science with 5 to 7 years of hands on programming experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications in a business environment is a must.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18099xDirector of Decision ScienceMelvilleNYFirst Datahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18099x.shtml?source=latproThis position is responsible for the development and integration of data mining and predictive modeling applications for all aspects of the First Data Global Leasing organization, including risk management, collections, and retention. The successful candidate will be an independent thinker and problem solver, with the ability to translate business problems into analytic solutions. There is a significant amount of interaction with senior management, from brainstorming new ideas and solutions, discussing business objectives/problems, presenting proposed solutions and 'selling ideas', to presenting analytic content and showing bottom-line benefit. This position will also be partially responsible for evaluating all aspects of developing and maintaining long-term strategic platforms for supporting data mining applications within the First Data Global Leasing organization. This position will lead R&D activities to solve for complex problems in the organization, forming contacts with academia and industry experts.

The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a highly technical/mathematical discipline (i.e., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics) with extensive knowledge in statistical theory (regression and multivariate statistics) and data mining techniques. Work experience utilizing predictive modeling and advanced data mining techniques in a real-world setting, preferably in a credit-related environment, is required. Candidate should be familiar with Decision trees, Neural Network, and logistic regression techniques, theory and application. The person we are seeking will have extremely effective communications, organizational and project management skills. General knowledge of database systems such as Access and Oracle, SAS programming experience and strong overall technical skills are required.

5+ years of experience is preferred.

Email resume to: Jodi.cohen [at] firstdata.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18100xAnalytics and Modeling ProfessionalOmahaNEWest Asset Managementhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18100x.shtml?source=latproWest Asset Management is currently seeking an analytics and modeling professional to join our dynamic data mining and modeling team within our Analytic Intelligence Group. Data Mining Analysts are responsible for conducting analytical and data-mining projects to prioritize customer contacts and improve operational performance. Successful candidates will have the appropriate mixture of analytics / research skills and familiarity with the practical business applications of predictive modeling within the accounts receivable management industry. Other success factors include the abilities to work in a fast-paced team environment while handling multiple projects simultaneously, to prioritize tasks and complete projects with minimal direct supervision, and to clearly communicate and present complex analytics results to internal business clients in practical and simple business terms.

Applicants for this job will be expected to meet the following minimum qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, Mathematics, MIS, Psychology, or related field required.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Psychology, MIS, or related field preferred. Equivalent work experience in a similar position may be substituted for educational requirements.

Minimum two years experience in statistics, data mining, or direct marketing consulting required.

Technical Knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint Required
• Knowledge of program languages (e.g., C++ C, etc.) preferred
• Knowledge of Databases (SQL, IBMDB2) preferred
• Knowledge of Statistical Software (SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Enterprise Guide, SPSS, etc.) preferred

West Asset Management is a leader in the cost containment and accounts receivable management industry. Backed by our $2 billion parent company, West Corporation, West Asset Management helps premier businesses and institutions maximize their return on receivables at every stage of the recovery cycle. As one of the nation's leading receivables management companies, we offer a full suite of receivables management solutions to a wide variety of industries.

Check out our opportunities and see the difference a career can make.

www.westassetmanagement.jobs
Job requisition # 927391 You must apply online to be considered.

West Asset Management. Achieve more.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18101xStatistics EngineerSunnyvaleCAEfficient Frontierhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18101x.shtml?source=latproEfficient Frontier (www.efrontier.com), a leading SEM solution provider, is looking for a statistics engineer to maintain and enhance models and algorithms in Sunnyvale, CA, office.

Responsibilities

• Enhancement of currently defined models and heuristic applications
• Development of customized models
• Programming predictive modeling algorithms
• Assessing the statistical significance of performance differences between models; e.g. hypothesis testing to compare a model with new features to an already deployed model.

• Master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in quantitative discipline: statistics, econometrics, applied math, computer science, machine learning
• Comprehensive understanding of some of the following quantitative methods: multivariate regression, classification, cluster analysis, simultaneous equation models, decision trees, hypothesis testing, neural nets, SVM, time series, outlier identification, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations etc.
• Proficiency in R/ SAS/ SPSS and SQL
• Experience with large data sets
• Exposure to operations research/ linear and non-linear optimization concepts is a plus

Please e-mail your resume to: jobs@efrontier.com.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18102xDirector, Data Strategy & AnalyticsNew YorkNYSimulmediahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18102x.shtml?source=latproAre you ready to join a high energy and fun new company in NYC working with a dedicated and talented team? We are looking for a true high level mathematics and statistics guru who is interested in becoming a thought leader and change agent in the $70B TV advertising marketplace. This hands-on manager must have experience in advising C-Level key business decisions using complex models they personally developed.

Only true statisticians need apply.

Key Skills:

• Thought Leadership. Design and construct analytical models.
• Expert knowledge of complex analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis.
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts.

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. This fast-paced start up is pioneering the development of predictive technology using a variety of data sources to help television companies deliver the right on-air promotions to the right viewers at the right time.

The Director, Data Strategy & Analytics (DS&A) drives Simulmedia's data strategy. We need someone who is a leader of people and ideas. The candidate will conceive and implement the statistical and analytical methods necessary to understand television consumption habits of viewers and their responses to on-air promotion. The Director, DS&A will work closely with senior leadership, product and technology teams to refine and take to market Simulmedia's offering. The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, creative, and with a voracious, wide-ranging curiosity. She/he should have a strong applied math or computer science background and should have 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets.

The Director DSA's responsibilities include:

• Developing, validating and maintaining audience data models and clustering/segmentation algorithms
• Designing requirements for structures to host data and support analytical applications required for the services
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts
• Identifying new sources of data to improve and enrich services
• Conceiving and implementing the analytical applications useful to media and marketing partners and conveying audience insights

• Expert knowledge of analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
• Power user of canned statistical analysis software (e.g. SAS, SPSS or Oracle data mining tools)
• 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets
• Strong data modeling and querying capability
• Master's level degree (or equivalent expertise/knowledge) in quantitative or analytical discipline such as Statistics, Decision Sciences, Operations Research or Econometrics.
• 3-5 years experience developing analytical models in marketing, finance, advertising or economics.
• 2+ years leading a team of analysts
• Working knowledge of one or more software development languages expected (Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Perl)
• Marketing intuition and familiarity with the attention economy a plus

We offer competitive salary, benefits, vacation, stock options and a stake in our company's success.

For consideration please send your resume with a cover letter and salary history to careers@simulmedia.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18103xHuman Resources Workforce Planning AnalystWarrenvilleILNational Expresshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18103x.shtml?source=latproNational Express Corporation (NEC), a nationwide leader in student transportation services, is made up of Durham School Services in the United States and Stock Transportation in Canada. Both Durham and Stock share a strong commitment to provide quality transportation, outstanding customer service, positive employee relations and the highest level of safety.

We are currently seeking a Human Resources Workforce Planning Analyst to work from our Warrenville, IL location. As an HR Workforce Planning Analyst, you will have the opportunity to support the Driver Recruiting Team with research, analysis, reports and recommendations related to all aspects of Driver recruitment and retention. You will create, assess, evaluate and report on recruitment activity metrics. In this role, you will develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external recruitment stakeholders to support enhancement of Driver recruitment and retention.

Requirements Include:

• Undergraduate degree in a related discipline or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
  • Demonstrated experience using software programs (e.g. Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Office, Excel, Access, various internet browsers) to monitor, track and report on hiring progress and results; conduct internet searches and research and prepare reports.
  • Experience in a recruiting environment, providing HR support and analysis or similar environment requiring data analytics processing or customer service.
  • Knowledge of the principles, practices, concepts, methods, tools, techniques and issues of recruitment to research, analyze, evaluate and make effective recommendations on a variety of aspects of recruitment
  • Knowledge of research, analytical and statistical assessment and evaluation methods and techniques to analyze a large volume of data and identify trends and issues.
  • Well-developed oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to work in a team environment

Apply Online

or visit our website at www.nationalexpresscorp.com, select the “Join Our Team” tab, select our “Illinois” location, and submit your resume via the website directly.

National Express Corporation is an equal opportunity employer

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18106xAnalytics ScientistMountain ViewCALinkedInhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18106x.shtml?source=latproLinkedIn is used by more than 38 million professionals around the world to exchange information, ideas and opportunities. We’re changing the way business gets done by creating a platform that enables people to control their identities online, manage their most valued professional relationships, get unique insights to help them in their jobs, and develop new relationships.

We're looking for superb analytical minds to expand our team that will build some of the most innovative products at LinkedIn. You should be extremely intelligent, have a quantitative background, and be able to learn quickly and work independently. This is the perfect job for someone who's really smart, driven, and extremely skilled at creatively solving problems. A strong background in statistics, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, programming, and product design is a plus, but most importantly you've got to start with what we can't teach...intellectual sharpness and creativity.

This is a unique opportunity to help define and build a new product and engineering team within a mid-sized (360 employees), globally-recognized, energetic, ambitious, and profitable pre-IPO startup. LinkedIn has amassed an incredible dataset, which we use to deliver highly personalized experiences for all our users. Our group also leverages our unique dataset, our creativity, and our skill with quantitative analysis to design and and build products like "people you may know", "who's viewed my profile", "jobs for you", and "company profiles" and core data infrastructure on which many of our products rely on (e.g. standardizing companies). The environment here is optimized for speed--for example, within a week of the initial concept for "viewers of this profile also viewed", it was live on the site. There are many products along these lines that you can help improve, develop and invent. The work is both intellectually rewarding and delivers important value to our users. In addition, the work's varied: one week, you may be involved in predicting which ads a specific user is likely to click on (profile targeted advertising), and the next, working on a model that decides whether 'Webex, Inc' is the same as 'Webex Communications' (it isn't). Changing the way business gets done around the world is no easy task, which is why we only hire the best and the brightest people who are motivated to challenge the norms, continually innovate and learn, and help others. If you fit this profile, then LinkedIn will be a rewarding and interesting place for you.

Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18107xActuaryLouisvilleKYHumanahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18107x.shtml?source=latproHumana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies. Humana offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services - through traditional and consumer-choice plans - to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals.

Today, Humana is a leader in consumer engagement. Throughout its diversified customer portfolio, the company provides guidance that can both help lower costs and lead to a better health plan experience.

Are you a fit?
Are you a detail-oriented analytical thinker? Would you enjoy using your mathematical knowledge to analyze and improve current business processes? If so, read on!

Assignment Capsule
As an Actuarial Analyst you will develop technical and business knowledge by collecting and analyzing data related to product development, pricing, reserving, financial reporting and other actuarial functions.

• Apply expertise and technical support, under the guidance of seasoned associates, in matters related to the successful and financially sound operation of the companies business to the departments external and internal customers.
• Analyze experience reports and manual rate analyses, developing recommendations for improvements, and preparing state filings for rate changes and product implementation that will ensure the profitability and financial integrity of Humana’s business.
• Evaluate reserving estimates and assess their adequacy.
• Act as liaison to the IT department to ensure that effective rating systems are in place.

• Builds Trust: You honor your word by doing what you say you are going to do.
• Implementation/Execution: You are good at organizing and managing multiple priorities and/or projects by using appropriate methodologies and tools.
• Innovate: You introduce new ideas and processes which improve performance and productivity.
• Problem Solving: You are a problem solver with the ability to encourage others in collaborative problem solving. Acting as both a broker and consultant regarding resources, you engage others in problem solving without taking over.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18108xSenior Data Mining SpecialistSanta MonicaCAActivisionhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18108x.shtml?source=latproActivision is looking for an outstanding Sr. Data-Mining Specialist with a passion for games to join our Central Design and Technologies team. This individual will have a pragmatic approach to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The ideal candidate will possess peerless data-mining and analytical skills, a boundless intellectual curiosity, and demonstrated ability to not only to extract gold from terabytes of data, but to present the results in a concise and meaningful manner. This is a critical hire with a potential for rapid growth.

Basic Function:

The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist will personally drive exploration and analysis of large, complex data sets representing hundreds of millions of real-world play sessions. Responsibilities include working with Central Design and Technologies to establish the feasibility of critical studies, choosing the right tools and techniques to mine the data in a timely way, iterating on data visualization, and actively steering the data-mining group towards interesting results.

The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must have a deep knowledge of and passion for all aspects of analysis; from seeing the possibilities in a given dataset, to using standard tools to perform complex extraction and analysis, to presenting results in a meaningful way. Problem-solving, prioritizing the need for timely answers while being open to discovery, and attention to detail must be second nature. The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must thrive in a challenging and ambiguous environment and be adept at driving to meaningful results regardless of technical or organizational hurdles. The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must be pragmatic and practical, rather than scholastic in their approach.

Principal Working Relationships:

• Sr. Director of Game Design (reports to)
• VP of Online Technology and Central Online team
• Database architects and programmers
• Sr. online staff at development studios

• Relevant degree required; advanced degree a plus
• 8 years experience and demonstrated expertise in data-mining and statistical analysis
• Possess strong understanding of standard data-mining tools and techniques. Experience with diverse statistical and data mining methods (e.g., cluster analysis, GLM/Regressions, Trees, SVMs, etc.). Social network analysis experience is a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of the realities of working with large, rich datasets
• Demonstrated ability to compromise and improvise while driving for results
• Must be committed to finding useful answers to fascinating questions
• Able to work and problem solve independently, to organize workload and priorities, and complete tasks on time
• Proven ability for high-quality execution, technical innovation/adaptation, and initiative.
• Avid gamer with a strong interest and knowledge of the video game industry

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18111xStatistical Marketing AnalystSaint PetersburgFLKobiehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18111x.shtml?source=latproKobie Marketing is a growing, nationally recognized industry leader in the customer retention and loyalty marketing industry. We are experts at developing, implementing, and managing industry leading loyalty marketing programs. Our vast experience is complemented by a culture that is deeply committed to client service. Our employees are the reason behind our success, and we would like to offer you an opportunity to build a successful career as a part of our team. To learn more about the benefits of working at Kobie please visit our website at www.kobie.com.

Kobie Marketing currently has an opening in the Strategic Services Division for a Statistical Marketing Analyst. The ideal Statistical Marketing Analyst will have a strong understanding of database marketing, interpretation of data, analyzing results, and recommending further uses of the data for marketing and planning purposes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage customer behavior-based models, analyzing, executing, maintaining, enhancing and interpreting the models and their outputs.
• Explore, expand and improve the capabilities of the models so as to exploit to their full advantage.
• Provide customized analytic services for database modeling and market research projects.
• Provide and present insights on customer attitudes and behavior to support actionable marketing strategy and tactics.

• Strong problem solving skills; can think independently with strong intellectual curiosity.
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, or other similar statistical programs as demonstrated by the ability to write statistical programming codes/syntax.
• Detailed knowledge and experience in performing data manipulation (code/syntax writing), i.e., data recode, transpose, cleansing, and other necessary requirements before any data analysis.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Multivariate and advanced statistics including regression analysis (GLM), factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminate analysis, conjoint analysis, categorical data analysis, and decision trees.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite with advanced Excel skills.
• A Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Social Sciences or related quantitative fields, or equivalent experience.
• MS SQL, SAS, Microsoft Office Suite with advanced Excel skills. Experience with Tableau a plus
• 3-5 years minimum work experience in analytics. 5-7 years or equivalent experience in related field preferred

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18112xInformation Retrieval Software EngineerSeattleWAAmazonhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18112x.shtml?source=latproAmazon.com's Darwin team is looking for exceptional software engineers to develop algorithms and build systems to automatically solve a variety of Information Retrieval and Data Mining problems related to the Amazon Product Catalog - one of the company's biggest asset.

Our principal challenge is to improve the shopping experience by detecting duplicate products for sale in the catalog and merging them. Merchants on Amazon.com provide information about the products they want to sell. Amazon attempts to match these product data submissions to items in its catalog so that it can display offers for the same product on a single page. Poorly structured or incomplete data makes this problem very challenging and often results in duplicate products getting created in the catalog. These duplicate products are shown in search results and end up confusing customers, leading to a bad customer experience. The Darwin team detects these duplicate products in the Amazon.com catalog using an innovative mix of Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Text Analysis algorithms and human intelligence harnessed via the Amazon Mechanical Turk. We then automatically merge products detected as duplicates together, improving customer experience and the quality of the catalog.

We are also responsible for a variety of other Catalog-related projects such as placing Product Advertisements on pages, automatically extracting important product features from the product description with a view to improving the discovery (search and browse) experience on the website and detecting egregious cases of poor quality data provided by sellers.

We are a highly-motivated, co-operative and fun loving team who thrive on solving challenging problems with innovation. As part of this team you will be analyzing data, developing new algorithms, building large-scale distributed software systems in Java using open source technologies such as Apache Lucene and JBoss and other Amazon.com proprietary technologies.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Math or related field with 2+ years of experience.
• Past experience in at least one of the following areas - Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Text Analysis or Machine Learning.
• Desire to analyze data while developing solutions to problems.
• Strong desire to build high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
• Strong design and coding skills in Java/C++ on Unix Platforms.
• Familiar with Perl and have a good understanding of SQL.
• Be highly innovative, flexible and self-directed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18113xDirector, AnalyticsNew YorkNYGilt.comhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18113x.shtml?source=latproGilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to men’s, women’s and children’s coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Launched in November 2007, Gilt Groupe is a new and exciting online fashion business, revolutionizing the way consumers across America shop. Headquartered in New York, Gilt Groupe is a members-only sample sale website, providing an exclusive sneak-peek into the latest collections of high-end fashion at highly discounted prices. With a limited time window of 24-48 hours to shop each designer sale, members have exclusive access to a fresh and exciting roster of desirable merchandise every week!

Gilt Groupe is built upon proven, successful track records and is a fully funded company. Members of the founding team bring experience from eBay, DoubleClick, Saks Fifth Avenue and many more. We are growing rapidly and offer very competitive salary with equity.

The primary responsibility for this role is using data to help the business make better decisions in areas of marketing, CRM, customer retention, merchandising and pricing and strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will have strong consultative skills in addition to quantitative ability, and will be aware of the challenges of using statistics in a business setting, such as incomplete data, biased data, and large data sets. Requires being creative and resourceful in use of both traditional and newer statistical and data mining techniques. This is green fields opportunity to build something from the ground up and a chance to model a business that has not existed before.

Responsibilities

• Use personalization techniques to drive business metrics, such as revenue through site and email channels.
• Build models to predict milestone customer behaviors, acquisition, conversion, retention.
• Ensure rigor in any testing program. Lead by example.
• Model product price sensitivity.
• Develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis
• Discover and drive new opportunities to optimize the business.
• In partnership with the Director, Business Intelligence identify opportunities to enrich our data to improve our modeling.
• Partner with IT to implement models and tests
• Hire and mentor a small team

• Experience with data mining in a marketing context, but not solely marketing. Breadth is appreciated.
• Experience with statistical software, such as SPSS, S+, SAS, R. (Product not yet selected.)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience with SQL, relational database design and methods for efficiently retrieving data from them.
• 7-10 years professional experience.
• Must be able to maintain a big picture perspective.
• Must have entrepreneurial spirit and drive, thriving in a fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing industry.
• Masters Degree in statistics, econometrics or related field. Ph.D. preferred.
• Experience with survey a plus.
• Fluent in a major programming language a plus.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18114xMarketing Mix ModelerChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18114x.shtml?source=latproThe Commander of Calculations. The Numerical Genius. The Translator.

The Draftfcb Marketing Mix Modeler.

At Draftfcb the M3 will lead quantitative modeling in granular marketing return on objectives/investment partnerships and produce actionable marketing mix analysis for our clients. The M3 should be self directed with prior experience in developing models for a variety of products. The position will report in to the Marketing Mix Practice Lead at Draftfcb.

The Position

• As an integral part of the marketing mix team, identify the business objectives and financial specifics for marketing accountability specific to each client project.
• Determine data sources and granularity; assess data quality
• Apply deep understanding of mass media planning and buying, retail audits and scanner data, in-store marketing, direct marketing, online media metrics and elements in the marketing mix (including pricing, and distribution) to develop appropriate modeling strategies
• Lead the data setup, statistical analysis and build marketing mix models
• Derive key actionable insights and generate interactive marketing mix optimization tools

• Advanced degree with heavy quantitative coursework (e.g., marketing analytics, statistics, math, economics)
• 8-10 years’ experience in marketing analytics or related field such as advertising, retail marketing, product marketing, direct marketing, online marketing, loyalty marketing, etc.
• 3-5 years’ experience in hands-on marketing mix modeling
• Experience with syndicated data sources such as Nielsen, IRI, and brand health data preferred
• strong quantitative skills and demonstrable experience in statistical/econometric modeling of marketing investment data
• Previous experience developing marketing models for a variety of products (CPGs, durables etc.) and service providers (financial, insurance, telecom etc.)

• Good grasp of time series predictive modeling, forecasting, media/channel optimization and how they relate to marketing strategy
• Proficiency with SPSS/SAS, and advanced analytics required

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses.

It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Email resume to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18201xDirector, Marketing Science and Innovation GroupLos AngelesCAOTXhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18201x.shtml?source=latproReports to SVP, Marketing Science & Innovation
OTX – Los Angeles
Email Resume Submissions to careers@otxresearch.com.

Mission statement for the MSI group

• Provide realizable and sustainable methodological foundations for all OTX products and project insights
• Maximize profit by balancing investment in analytics with in-house capabilities and high quality outside partners
• Implement cutting edge innovative methods for insight
• Develop optimization methods for our clients’ business issues
• Use the MSI group as a point of differentiation for OTX in the marketplace
• Expand our role as industry thought leaders
• Continue introduction of best practices in science to market research

This is a key function within the Marketing Science & Innovation Group and the Director, Marketing Science & Innovation will contribute across all elements of the MSI mission statement.

Specifically, this individual will be a primary contact internally for new product development efforts and the execution and management of marketing science components of client projects.

Duties include research study design, statistical and modeling analysis, helping create cutting edge methods for new products, interacting with client service and external clients to understand business needs and implementation/development of standards for tracking data and other continuous research projects.

The Director, MSI will stay abreast of new data analysis techniques, modeling approaches and applications from related scientific disciplines and consider how these approaches can improve OTX deliverables.

Experience / skills required

Qualifications must include:

• Undergraduate degree with work in mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences and/or quantitative business analysis (Advanced degree preferred)
• Minimum 1 - 2 years of related MR experience
• Extensive knowledge of research computing
• Programming language tools (Perl, Java, SQL, R, C++, etc.)
• Tasks (large data set manipulation, distributed computing, system engineering)
• Comprehensive knowledge of multivariate statistical techniques
• Familiarity with or interest in advanced methods such as:
  • neural networks
  • genetic algorithms
  • agent based models
  • Bayesian belief systems
• Technical knowledge/understanding/background in SQL, Database Design, and Data Processes
• Strong communication and follow-up skills; including clearly communicating with management, customers and vendors
• Capable of working independently and with multiple departments
• Complex database and data management experience

Compensation Commensurate with Experience

OTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications are encouraged from all persons regardless of their race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, marital status, religious creed, medical/physical/mental condition, sexual orientation, Veteran status, or age.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18203xSr. Statistician, 1 year contractSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18203x.shtml?source=latproWe are a technology consulting company currently working with our direct clients including eBay, Paypal, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Cisco, EMC, Symantec, S&P, Novell, Agilent, Verisign, Hitachi, Genentech, Novartis amongst others enabling the success of their Software as well as IT infrastructure development initiatives through the quality of our consultants. Our website url is www.akraya.com.

I would really like to discuss this position with you. Kindly mail me resumes in word format at shrijeet.nair@akraya.com so that we can discuss further. Feel free to call me at my direct # 408.512.2371 .

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The ideal candidate will:

• Be deeply knowledgeable about data mining, modeling.
• Invent, develop, and execute innovative approaches to improving the performance of online marketing efforts.
• Build relationships with the client and the account management teams.
• Participate in the active management and continued development of the analytic team’s systems and processes. The ideal candidate will be a valued contributor, leveraging his/her expertise and analytical perspective.
• Understand the underlying pains of a client, and then formulate and implement solutions to resolve the client’s issues via data and analytics.
• Work collaboratively with other analytics team members. Share knowledge across the board.
• Provide analytic service: building out the analytic service framework.

• Experience working with web analytics data or financial data.
• Solid understanding of online media, search, digital industry trends, etc.
• Superior analytical skills, including experience using detailed data files to answer questions and solve problems.
• Exceptional creative and inventive mindset. Strong desire to build unique, world-class analytical solutions.
• Strong technical skills, both from a hands-on programming perspective, as well as a “big picture” perspective regarding analytics.
• The need to continually develop the analytical knowledge base, and to help grow the team into a best in class search marketing and analytics powerhouse.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills are essential to this position. The candidate will have proven communication skills that demonstrate understanding of complex data or statistical details, clarity of thought, relating complex information to non-technical users, and the ability to persuade others.
• Exceptional attention to detail, and a burning desire to make analyses precise. A successful candidate will explore every aspect of the data in an analysis from the observed behavior to the processes that create the data. Skepticism is key. Take proud in delivering high quality results.
• Some knowledge of the online space from a marketing perspective.

Candidates with one or more of the following are desirable:

• Excellent communications and listening skills to work directly with clients, understanding their needs and then formulating and executing solutions to address those needs.
• Experience in R, S+, SAS and SQL programming. Proven product development experience such as automated reporting, scraping tool using R or SAS, etc.
• Quantitative degree – advanced degree in statistics/economics preferred.
• Substantial work experience in data analytics and modeling - 6+ yrs
• Database or direct marketing
• Consulting
• database and/or business intelligence experience

URL: www.akraya.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18204xTechnical Product Specialist, Analytics, SAS, SPSS, S+, and RBostonMAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18204x.shtml?source=latproProvide pre-sales technical expertise and product knowledge in the area of advanced analytics (products including SAS, R, SPSS, S+, and others) to assist in our sales efforts and partnering activities.

Responsibilities:

Specialist would support field sales in engagements where advanced analytics will be utilized or is a key to the sales cycle. Also would provide corporate based resources with hands-on knowledge of customer requirements and current technology trends.

Work with various account teams to provide technical sales support in sales/product presentations, product positioning, product demonstration, and implementation. Serve as the corporate product specialist and functional expert for a wide range of analytic tools. Build proof-of-concept analytic applications based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping. Provide advanced analytics product evaluation support, product installation, application prototyping and benchmarks, often times in conjunction with a technology partner.

Skills:

• Knowledge of leading-edge statistical and quantitative analytical methods and experience with statistical analysis tools such as SAS, SPSS, S+, and R
• Ability to partner with customers, technology partners, and internal teams to define implementation strategies, review best practices, prototypes, and deliver initial solution implementations
• Experience with BI tools such as Business Objects, MicroStrategy, and Cognos
• Experience with ETL tools such as Infomatica, DataStage, and Ab Initio
• Experience writing complex SQL queries, and fluency with C++/C, Java, Python, R, and MapReduce
• Experience with parallel database technologies helpful
• Excellent communication skills and ability to speak to technical and business stakeholders and users
• Solid understanding of support/sales/account management workflow
• Detail-oriented; passion for getting involved with many different products, as well as understanding their form and functionality at a detailed level
• Proven track record of excellent presentation, documentation, and customer interaction skills
• Demonstrated experience in successfully advocating customer needs

Experience implementing advanced analytic applications in a customer and partner environment.

Education:

University Degree essential - Computer Science preferred. Advanced degree a plus. Database, business analytics, BI technology consulting also a plus.

Please respond to:

Jim Stewart
Stewart Systems Inc.
781-639-2900
Email: StewartSystems [at] verizon.net (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18206xSAS ConsultantRomeItalySmith Hanleyhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18206x.shtml?source=latpro

Smith Hanley Consulting Group was founded nearly 30 years ago and has 12 offices throughout the United States. We are a specialized recruiting services organization and are part of inVentiv Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTIV), the leading provider of commercialization and complementary services to global pharmaceutical, life sciences, biotechnology, and other industries. We have two divisions within Smith Hanley Consulting Group that offer exceptional staffing solutions to our clients.

Global Financial Services company is seeking a SAS Consultant for a project in Rome, Italy. The ideal candidate will be responsible for manipulating large amounts of transactional data for reporting and promotional purposes revolving around marketing campaigns and promotions. The Consultant must have a proven track record in financial/marketing based business intelligence. The ability to communicate those results and to formulate recommendations to senior management both in Italy and the US, will be critical for success in this position. Lastly, participation in face-to-face client initiatives will be required; therefore must be fluent in Italian and English.

Required Skills:

• 3-5 years of SAS MACROS/ BASE programming and development experience to include very strong data management skills
• Prepare pre-campaign analysis, campaign tracking, and backend campaign profitability and sustainability
• Windows and UNIX (preferably AIX) experience
• Strong SQL skills
• Oracle
• MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18206x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18210xStatistics EngineerSunnyvaleCAEfficient Frontierhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18210x.shtml?source=latproEfficient Frontier (www.efrontier.com), a leading SEM solution provider, is looking for a statistics engineer to maintain and enhance models and algorithms in Sunnyvale, CA, office.

Responsibilities

• Enhancement of currently defined models and heuristic applications
• Development of customized models
• Programming predictive modeling algorithms
• Assessing the statistical significance of performance differences between models; e.g. hypothesis testing to compare a model with new features to an already deployed model.

• Master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in quantitative discipline: statistics, econometrics, applied math, computer science, machine learning
• Comprehensive understanding of some of the following quantitative methods: multivariate regression, classification, cluster analysis, simultaneous equation models, decision trees, hypothesis testing, neural nets, SVM, time series, outlier identification, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations etc.
• Proficiency in R/ SAS/ SPSS and SQL
• Experience with large data sets
• Exposure to operations research/ linear and non-linear optimization concepts is a plus

Please e-mail your resume to: jobs@efrontier.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18211xSoftware Development Engineer, Personalization PlatformSeattleWAAmazonhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18211x.shtml?source=latpro

We know what people want before they know it themselves. Amazon.com's product recommendations are among our most popular and best-loved features and help drive customer delight by recommending relevant, serendipitous products based on each customer's unique interests. Be part of the team that collects customer behavior data in real-time, and uses this data to recommend the perfect products to millions of customers every day.

Requirements:

You should have a track record of operational excellence, a bias for action and ability to brainstorm and prototype ideas efficiently as well as the following:

• A BS in computer science or equivalent, along with at least 3 years of software development experience.
• Strong OO design and Java coding skills.
• Ability to think quantitatively.
• Experience in recommender systems, data mining, machine learning, or artificial intelligence in a commercial setting is desired.
• Experience in parallel computing and developing high throughput, high availability systems is desired.

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18211x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18212xSr. Software Development Engineer in TestBellevueWABinghttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18212x.shtml?source=latproLooking for the challenge of a different kind of test problem? Ever thought of how you would verify software that mines petabytes of data to produce metrics that are business critical. How would you verify that metrics are meaningful? How would you test that metrics are indeed accurate? If you want to play a key part in building the largest and most innovative Business Intelligence and advanced analytics system in the world. Come talk to us!

Microsoft online services generate huge amount of data ranging from user interaction logs, web documents, user feedback, to system performance data. The data contains valuable information for building the #1 search engine to serve people's information needs. The data is also critical for making appropriate business decisions. The main challenge is to effectively process the data, discover information and put it into action. We are developing advanced and practical data mining, and machine learning techniques to derive information to understand user intent, discover patterns to improve search relevance and results ranking, detect and filter bot traffic, spam, and noise, and measure relevance and user satisfaction quickly and effectively, identify weak points of the search engine, discover system performance systems, measure/understand the health of the online business, and many more. We also work on techniques to manage and process petabytes of data efficiently and effectively. Our BI pipelines use Cosmos, a highly-scalable, highly-available distributed storage/processing infrastructure to collect massive data and in conjunction of SQL server and SQL reporting service to perform analysis on the data and expose results to business teams, Bing feature teams and leadership teams.

The Bing Infrastructure Data Mining team is looking for experienced SDET to contribute to test these unique and challenging problems. Verify that the data pipeline is fully functional, that the metrics produced are reliable, meaningful and accurate, so that the decisions made on them are sound. You will be testing a pipeline that not only processes data quickly and reliably, but is also able to scale up to handle some of the largest data sets on earth!

Responsibilities of the Senior SDET:

• Develop optimal test case design, equivalence classing, and matrix reduction
• Develop test methods that improve coverage for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Identify opportunities to adopt or develop better automation tools
• Analyze patterns of defects for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Conduct preliminary root cause analyses that increase team productivity
• Collaborate with other disciplines in improving code design for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Influence appropriate compromises and dependencies in planning across feature teams
• Establish agreements with other teams that ensure coverage and communication
• Lead and influence data quality work across a team of 200 engineers

• BS or equivalent in a technical area
• Experience shipping at least two large commercial software product (ideally at Microsoft)
• 6+ years programming experience (C#, C/C++, SQL)
• Experience or interest in data analysis and business intelligence
• Proactive, self-motivated and self-starter
• Strong communication skills, and ability to work with other functional roles

Contact: eugenial [at] microsoft.com, or Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18213xManager, Analytics and Decision SupportWoodland HillsCAIntuithttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18213x.shtml?source=latproAre you looking to work in a quickly growing business unit?
Are you looking to expand your career and challenge your development?
Are you results oriented and like to continuously improve? Do you have strong process and analytical skills?
Are you a people person who also likes working cross-functionally and coaching and developing others?

If you answered YES to several of the above, then this role could be for you!

Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, but that’s just the start. We also help small and medium sized businesses get paid (Intuit Payment Solutions), pay their employees (Intuit Payroll Division) or build websites (Intuit Homestead). We are currently going through a fundamental transformation from a shrink-wrapped software company to one of the country's leading providers of web-based applications and solutions for small to medium sized businesses.

Come join Intuit’s Payment Solutions Division as Manager, Analytics and Decision Support. We are looking for creative problem solvers with a passion for innovation to join our team and revolutionize the way the world does business.

The primary reason businesses and merchants sign up to use our card and check processing service is to (a) get paid fast and (b) lower their cost of payment acceptance. The biggest element in a merchant’s total cost of payment acceptance is the number of “bad payments” they accept, be it bad checks or fraudulent cards, and the number of those “bad payments” that do not get collected. This position will report to the head of the Risk function and the primary role of the Manager is to lead the Business and Data Analysts by developing and maintaining cutting edge loss prevention products and techniques in the markets we serve.

Skills:

• Leadership Skills: Manage a team by motivating, guiding, supporting, providing thought and analytical leadership and driving execution of key projects.
• Project Management Skills: Work to identify, validate and test external data sources. Determine and craft project and business requirements as well work with internal partners, including information technology, product and operations to successfully deliver enhancements.
• Financial Acumen: Has ability to quickly grasp the revenue and profit drivers to any business. Responsible for loss forecasting, reserve setting and financial planning of credit losses.
• Predictive Model Building and Analytic Skills: Has passion in analyzing data, drawing appropriate conclusions, able to effectively summarize and communicate findings and create strategies to translate statistical findings to business strategies that positively impact the business and customer.
• Critical Thinking: Convert analytical insights into strategies that drive reductions in bad check rate for our customers
• Reporting & Performance Tracking: Creating daily, weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports for customers as well as management
• Communication and Presentation Skills: Demonstrated persuasive written and verbal communication skills with ability to establish logical flow and story to present complex information in an easy to understand way.
• Interpersonal Skills / Team Work: Ability to work well with others, not just at a social level, but by building bridges and sometimes confronting tough issues that need to be resolved for the best of the business.
• Personality Traits: High degree of Initiative, Integrity, Outspoken, Servant Leadership type management style, Driven (while being a team player) & Strong Attention to Detail

• Advanced degree in quantitative field such as Statistics, Math, Economics or an MBA
• 5+ Years Work Experience in Payments or Financial Services
• Experience managing people and leading teams in similar environments
• Experience with building predictive models, ETL Processes & Data Analytics
• Advanced SQL, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word and MS Power Point Skills

www.intuitcareers.com - Requisition # 66339.
Apply Online

Be innovative… Be yourself... Be Intuit …

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18214xData Mining AnalystTorontoCanadaWaterfront Internationalhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18214x.shtml?source=latproWaterfront International is a Toronto-based financial consulting firm, specializing in developing computer based statistical trading strategies. Waterfront’s selective hiring process considers only highly talented individuals with a history of exceptional professional and academic achievement, and solid real-world experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform financial market data research and analysis to identify and resolve data issues using advanced data mining techniques.
• Develop proprietary data mining tools and applications.
• Develop predictive models.

• PhD or Masters in mathematics, statistics or computer science specializing in data mining.
• Experience with machine learning and knowledge discovery techniques.
• Solid quantitative background with excellent analytical skills.
• Strong working knowledge of data mining and statistics.
• Must possess expert level C/C++ programming skills.
• Some financial experience desired but not required.
• Must be a strong self-starter and able to work well independently.

Email: recruiting@wil.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182016xData ManagerCincinnatiOHCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centerhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182016x.shtml?source=latpro At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, our vision is to be the leader in improving child health. We are dedicated to transforming the way health care is delivered and to implementing quality improvements to advance patient safety, outcomes and experiences. U.S.News & World Report ranked the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center the third best pediatric program at a medical school in the United States, behind only Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. Cincinnati Children's received 122 NIH grants in 2008 -- 21 more than in 2007 -- the most awarded to us in eight years. We are currently looking for the following:

Data Manager

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

To manage data processes and to develop, implement and maintain a data quality assurance program for research studies.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with researchers and research coordinators to ascertain data needs for research studies.
• Act as a liaison between research team, IT professionals, and analysts to create analysis data sets for research purposes.
• Design and test data collection tools.
• Build and maintain data dictionaries for division and study databases.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive data quality program for research studies.
• Ensure global clinical data management best practices and knowledge thereof in a standardized, transparent, and efficient manner. Assume responsibility as a partner for the planning, resourcing, and execution of relevant internal and external data management activities to obtain clean databases within a specified timeframe.
• Maintain data quality for research studies.
• Oversee the accuracy of data entry functions.
• Design and build eCRFs and edit checks, oversee validation process.
• Coordinate data transfers, data reconciliation.
• Develop knowledge and professional skills through continuing education, cross training, literature and attendance at departmental meetings.

Ability to organize and define problems, develop strategies, solutions and recommend action plans for research data management. Analytical and statistical ability sufficient to evaluate data, make judgments and recommendations regarding data management and quality. Experience performing basic statistical analysis including frequency distributions, graphical displays and descriptive statistics. Demonstrates analytical skills as well as accuracy and attention to detail. Possesses strong computer and word processing, spreadsheet statistical, and database software application skills (Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, Business Objects, Access, SAS or SPSS). Have a working knowledge of tools to build simple databases and electronic data collection tools. Be able to develop ad hoc queries for simple data retrieval skills.

EDUCATION/WORK EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Bachelor degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, management information systems, quantitative analysis or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 1 year experience developing and manipulating small to medium databases, using Visual Basic, SAS and/or SPSS and cleaning and managing data for multiple projects.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18218xSenior Level SW Quality Metrics EngagementSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18218x.shtml?source=latproExpected Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities

M Squared will provide thought leadership working with an established software quality data team and will leverage a strong engineering and/or mathematics background and passion for collecting and analyzing SW quality and process metrics.

Primary responsibilities in this engagement will include:

• Analysis of voluminous data from numerous sources (defects per hour, reliability curves, bugs, overall test health, customer-found defect percentages, etc.)
• Develop predictive indicators on how current quality statistics will translate into field/customer performance
• Documented assessment of “as is” status and/or hypothesis on what is happening
• Formulation of “to be” state and recommendations on what should be done next
• SW quality modeling based on in-depth knowledge of in SW development process and of metrics used to assess code quality
• Development of solution(s) that bring fresh thinking to our client’s team

• Documentation of “As Is” and “To Be” assessments
• SW quality modeling
• Solutions recommendations

M Squared will achieve success in this engagement by providing fresh thinking on software quality data, metrics and processes to optimize SW Quality.

Industry Experience

• High Tech industry experience with SW quality leaders; non-client specific
• Significant experience in the software development arena coupled with engineering, mathematics or statistics educational background

• Exceptional knowledge of statistics and statisticals methodologies
• Highly skilled in Excel (including macro creation and Visual Basic)
• Demonstrated experience with bug query tools
• General knowledge of using web tools and posting data to web-sites (web-site creation and modification is a plus)

• Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists
• Demonstrated proactive team member
• Deals well with change of direction and focus
• Commits to deliverables and is timely in their delivery
• Quick study with high energy and stamina...it's the culture

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18218x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18219xDirector, Traffic AnalysisSan FranciscoCALooksmarthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18219x.shtml?source=latproWe are currently seeking a Director of Traffic Analysis to join the LookSmart Team.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing ad network traffic performance to optimally match traffic supply to advertiser demand
• Developing tools and infrastructure to enable account managers to manage traffic sources for their accounts
• Providing second level support for Account Managers
• Doing deep analysis/data mining of ad network traffic patterns. Developing and maintaining formulas and algorithms to enable sustainable growth of partner business and direct business.
• Building Traffic Analysis function as a core competency and competitive advantage
• Managing and mentoring a small team of analysts

• 3 years experience leading traffic analysis function for a major ad network
• 5 years experience in applied data analysis
• Strong domain expertise in on-line search advertising
• BA in computer science, statistical analysis or related field required, MS or PhD desirable.
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented work

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18219x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18071xDirector of AnalyticsKansas CityMOAdKnowledgehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18071x.shtml?source=latproPOSITION: Director of Analytics
ORGANIZATION: Adknowledge
LOCATION: Kansas City, MO
DEPARTMENT: Corporate
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Chief Operating Officer

Company Overview:

Adknowledge is a performance-based advertising network that utilizes powerful predictive technology to connect advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including email, search, messaging, domain, and social networks. Over 50,000 advertisers use the Adknowledge ad network to promote their offers.

Adknowledge has developed patent-pending technologies that use predictive analytics to study consumer response patterns and display the most relevant advertisement possible per impression. The technology enables Adknowledge to deliver search-like quality for advertisers through non-search mediums.

Adknowledge has grown rapidly through the acquisition of Cubics, Mediarun, Lookery, Adonomics and MIVA Media, which includes the brand names Findwhat.com and Espotting. Adknowledge has been recognized by Red Herring and also by AlwaysOn Media as a Top 100 Private Companies award winner.

Founded in 2004, Adknowledge is a privately-held company with more than 180 employees throughout the world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Adknowledge has domestic offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and international offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2006, the company received $48 million in funding from Technology Crossover (TCV) whose portfolio includes C|Net, eHarmony, Fandango, Expedia.com, iVillage, and Netflix.

Department/Team Overview

Focus

Adknowledge provides technology and services to publishers that enable them to deliver highly-targeted advertisements to their users. Adknowledge anonymously tracks behaviors on over 400M unique users. The data analytics team is responsible for managing a 10TB+ data warehouse that aggregates behavior data across a number of Adknowledge business units. The team creates statistical models and algorithms to recommend the right category of offer to a consumer at the right time to maximize response and conversion rates. Techniques include collaborative filters, clustering, and other recommendation systems. Data includes behavioral, geographic, demographic and social graph data.

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 where advertisers purchase ads from Adknowledge.
• A proprietary API known as AdStation, which allows publishers to insert targeted advertisements from Adknowledge into their unsold ad inventory.

• 20+ terabytes of data housed in an open source, distributed data warehouse as well as Oracle, MySQL, and Netezza;
• The promise of cloud computing delivered in reality: extensive use of Hadoop on AWS for production analytics.
• 2000+ servers in 6 data centers worldwide;
• 40+ software engineers;
• 4+ billion consumer impressions served daily;
• Linux technology stack, heavy in Java and LAMP;

Adknowlege’s Director of Analytics will be responsible for improving revenue by managing a team to apply statistical techniques to very large consumer data sets.

1. Team Development: Manage a team of approximately 5 statisticians and 3 engineers including attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining highly talented individuals.
2. Analytics: Gather business requirements from key stakeholders and turn them into actionable analytics projects. Prioritize, set deadlines and mentor a team of statisticians. Create predictive consumer models, analyze traffic patterns and quality and model a large advertiser marketplace.
3. Data Management and Warehousing: Work with very large data sets (10TB+) and architect a distributed data management architecture that can scale to handle rapid growth.
4. Engineering: Manage a team of engineers focused on turning statistical models into production ready deployments. Make key technology decisions and manage vendor relationships. Utilize cloud computing (e.g. AWS) and open source platforms (e.g. Hive, CloudBase) to achieve scalability and efficiency.
5. Project Management: Institute lightweight processes to manage projects and provide visibility to upper management on project status and prioritization.
   

• Articulate strategic technical objectives (quarterly, annual, long-term), and lead the group to achieve them.
• Interact with internal and external customers to ensure continuous customer satisfaction, modifying plans and processes when necessary to maintain reliability and performance.
• All other duties as assigned

The successful candidate will be an analytical, thoughtful and business-minded leader with at least:

• 3+ years of fundamental people management (hiring, coaching, firing).
• 3+ years of experience involved in revenue impacting analysis of very large data sets including data mining, statistical tests and/or simulations.
• Proven experience translating requirements into solutions.
• Strong familiarity with Linux/UNIX, SQL and R.
• Background in software engineering strongly preferred with experience developing in Java.
• Degree in computer science, mathematics or related field.

• Communication Skills: Be comfortable interfacing with senior management, understanding complex business requirements and presenting the pros and cons of various technologies and statistical techniques to nontechnical managers.
• Leader/Builder/Recruiter: Able to attract, motivate and build a disciplined and goal-focused team.
• Resourceful: figure-it-out-and-get-it-done mentality.
• Analytical: An intelligent decision maker.
• Fast Paced: Enjoy rapid change within a small, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture
• Strategic Skills: Have a superior business intellect and understand what to pursue and what to defer within an opportunity-rich environment.

Compensation: Competitive six-figure base salary and equity participation.

Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18072xStatisticianKansas CityMOAdKnowledgehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18072x.shtml?source=latproPOSITION: SR Statistician
ORGANIZATION: Adknowledge
LOCATION: Kansas City, MO
DEPARTMENT: Analytics
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Director of Analytics

Company Overview:

Adknowledge is a performance-based advertising network that utilizes powerful predictive technology to connect advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including email, search, messaging, domain, and social networks. Over 50,000 advertisers use the Adknowledge ad network to promote their offers.

Adknowledge has developed patent-pending technologies that use predictive analytics to study consumer response patterns and display the most relevant advertisement possible per impression. The technology enables Adknowledge to deliver search-like quality for advertisers through non-search mediums.

Adknowledge has grown rapidly through the acquisition of Cubics, Mediarun, Lookery, Adonomics and MIVA Media, which includes the brand names Findwhat.com and Espotting. Adknowledge has been recognized by Red Herring and also by AlwaysOn Media as a Top 100 Private Companies award winner.

Founded in 2004, Adknowledge is a privately-held company with more than 180 employees throughout the world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Adknowledge has domestic offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and international offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2006, the company received $48 million in funding from Technology Crossover (TCV) whose portfolio includes C|Net, eHarmony, Fandango, Expedia.com, iVillage, and Netflix.

Department/Team Overview

Focus

Adknowledge provides technology and services to publishers that enable them to deliver highly-targeted advertisements to their users. Adknowledge anonymously tracks behaviors on over 400M unique users. The data analytics team is responsible for managing a 10TB+ data warehouse that aggregates behavior data across a number of Adknowledge business units. The team creates statistical models and algorithms to recommend the right category of offer to a consumer at the right time to maximize response and conversion rates. Techniques include collaborative filters, clustering, and other recommendation systems. Data includes behavioral, geographic, demographic and social graph data.

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 where advertisers purchase ads from Adknowledge.
• A proprietary API known as AdStation, which allows publishers to insert targeted advertisements from Adknowledge into their unsold ad inventory.

• 20+ terabytes of data housed in an open source, distributed data warehouse as well as Oracle, MySQL, and Netezza;
• The promise of cloud computing delivered in reality: extensive use of Hadoop on AWS for production analytics.
• 500+ Linux servers;
• LAMP based platform mixed with some C, C++, and Oracle
• A cloud running Hadoop, DHT, and other distributed services.

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.

Position Overview:

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Troubleshoot: Analyze and troubleshoot our proprietary targeting system to ensure optimal revenue is attained.
   

Candidate Overview:

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

• 2+ years in data mining, statistical analysis
• Expertise in statistical software (R, S-Plus, SAS or similar)
• Prior experience in on line advertising preferred
• Experience working with datasets containing at least millions of records.
• Non-academic SQL development with any DBMS, Oracle preferred

• Passion for Technology: Excitement for new technology, bleeding edge applications, and a positive attitude towards solving real world challenges.
• Team Player: Work in a highly collaborative environment. This includes evaluating concepts, debating ideas, and helping others move projects forward.
• Detail oriented: accuracy and attention to detail is very important in this position.
• Analytical: Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to research and analyze data from a variety of sources.
• Pragmatic: The ability to translate theoretical results into business applications. This includes identifying and understanding the business need, formulating and evaluating possible solutions, completing the exploratory and predictive phases of analysis, and moving the recommended solution into production.

PhD in Mathematics, Statistics or Econometrics or any other mathematical field. Equivalent work experience along with a MS is also acceptable.

Compensation: Based on Experience

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18076xSenior Statistical Modeler / Marketing ScientistCincinnatiOHThinkVinehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18076x.shtml?source=latpro

ThinkVine, a privately-held, venture-backed, marketing science solutions company is accepting resumes for a Senior Statistical Modeler / Marketing Scientist in our Cincinnati office. This position will support a wide variety of analytic initiatives in ThinkVine's consulting group. These include segmentation, consumer behavior analysis, sales forecasting, response prediction, advertising effectiveness, market mix modeling and ROI measurement. The candidate may be involved at all levels of a project, such as research design, data manipulation, analysis, reporting and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Designs, plans, executes and interprets quantitative analysis of customer data.
• Assists with data cleaning, recoding and variable transformations for analysis.
• Performs data diagnostics and other quality control checks to ensure accuracy of work.
• Writes and presents clear, effective, actionable findings based on analyses.
• Illustrates data graphically and translates complex findings into clear, concise visuals.
• Distills insights from the analysis to offer business recommendations by identifying meaningful consumer indicators and trends.

• Expert knowledge of SPSS or other statistical package (e.g. SAS, STATA).
• Practical experience conducting statistical techniques such as regression analysis, factor analysis, and clustering.
• An understanding of the underlying models, when to apply them, how to conduct the analysis and interpret the insights derived from the results.
• Ability to write clear and insightful reports in PowerPoint.
• Experience working with various types of data, including data sourced from consumer surveys, as well as from large (and often messy) customer databases. Ability to extract, clean and format data for analysis.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, but also able to solve problems independently.
• Graduate degree preferred in an analytic field such as statistics, economics, mathematics, psychology, sociology or business.
• At least three years of experience in market research, database analysis or other areas that emphasizes the analysis and reporting of business data.

• Econometric and other quantitative skills are a plus, such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, Bayesian estimation, mathematical optimizations and simulation techniques.
• Ability to develop experimental designs and conduct analysis for conjoint/choice modeling.
• Ability to program in Excel using VBA.
• Experience with Business Intelligence and Data Mining Applications.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18077xManagerJercey CityNJISO Innovative Analyticshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18077x.shtml?source=latproDirector (or Manager) of Analytic Applications and Research

Company Overview:

ISO Innovative Analytics (iiA), a unit of ISO, is an insurance solutions company specializing in applying advanced analytic techniques and data management skills to the challenge of accurately assessing risk in the property and casualty insurance industry. Our clients include many of the nation's leading property and casualty insurers. We combine vast data resources with leading edge predictive modeling techniques to create the most accurate risk models in the industry. Our clients use these models to give them a competitive advantage in executing their marketing, underwriting and pricing strategies. Our market position allows us to dedicate unparalleled time and talent to solving the industry's analytic challenges. iiA is an equal opportunity employer.

Responsibilities:

The Analytic Applications and Research area of ISO Innovative Analytics serves a critical function by connecting Analytical R&D efforts with key Customer groups. It provides the crucial “translation” function, allowing R&D activities to progress unencumbered, while enabling their success by positioning them with key stakeholder groups including – Regulators, potential Customers, and Development partners. In addition, this area utilizes feedback from these stakeholders to develop prototypes of new analytical efforts.

In addition to familiarity with analytical techniques and predictive modeling, the successful candidate must be an accomplished communicator, with demonstrated experience in dealing with internal and external stakeholders. The position requires communication with customer/regulators and includes some amount of travel (20-50%).

The Director (or Manager) of the Analytic Applications and Research function will take a leadership role and will work closely with the Executive team to set direction, role, and activities for Analytic Applications and Research function. Broad responsibilities of the function include –

• Leading proof-of-concept studies to demonstrate value of new analytical efforts
  • Collaborating with other iiA researchers, including academic research partners, to develop prototype initiatives
  • Communicating results of these studies to executive leadership team and other stakeholders

• Supporting the Productization of Analytical Tools
  • Performing state-specific model adjustments, smoothing, geo-spatial analyses, sub-group testing, etc.
  • Supporting the Filing team with analysis, reason-code explanations, and on-the-ground support such as DOI visits (if needed)
  • Working with R&D and Product Management to determine specs for model implementation in production

• Developing analyses to support Marketing/Sales activities
  • Establishing novel ways of assessing the business impact/value of model lift
  • Performing comparative studies (e.g., ISO models vs Credit, etc.) to help position ISO solutions
  • Writing white-papers and helping develop Sales/Marketing collateral

• Customizing industry models for Development partners
  • Performing GLM and other modeling (as appropriate) to build custom models for development partners (leveraging Industry models developed by the R&D teams)
  • Presenting model results to Development partners, including lift-analyses

• Providing technical support for Sales activities
  • Setting-up processes for analyzing and demonstrating “lift” for Pilot testers
  • Working with Pilot testing carriers to in-source data, perform lift analysis, and communicate results
  • Providing technical expertise on Sales calls with potential customers

• Advanced quantitative degree (Masters or PhD) with experience building and/or managing predictive modeling initiatives is required
• 8+ years of experience in Analytics is required, with 3+ years of experience in P&C insurance (preferably in Actuarial functions).
• Demonstrated P&C domain knowledge through qualifications such as FCAS/ACAS or CPCU is a plus.
• Experience with filing rating plans or working with Departments of Insurance is a big plus.
• Project and team leadership experience is required. Experience working with customers is a big plus.
• Knowledge and experience with diverse statistical and data mining methods (e.g., GLM/Regression, Trees, Neural nets, SVMs, etc.) is desirable.
• Ability to lead initiatives, plan activities and resources, work hands-on, manage/develop staff, and mentor junior members, is required
• Must be self-motivated and passionate about creating analytical solutions for diverse and challenging problems.
• Team-player, with strong communication, motivational, and mentoring skills.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18078xDirector of AnalyticsWestchesterNYAllianthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18078x.shtml?source=latproDirector of Analytics

Alliant is looking for a Director of Analytics to work in our northern Westchester, New York office. This is a key position, responsible for providing technical leadership and managing the work processes and output of our team of analysts and statisticians. He/she will work actively with the account management and sales teams to set analytic objectives. The ideal candidate will have a wide-range of experience building regression models and presenting the results to marketing teams, senior management and clients. Additionally, candidates should have the ability to develop new methodologies building on existing intellectual capital.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong quantitative/analytical skills and extensive attention to detail
• High energy level; flexible, adaptive, inquisitive and keen understanding of technology
• Experience managing a team of highly skilled statisticians and programmers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with large-scale databases, PC software and database manipulation

• Graduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or related field
• 8+ years experience in statistical analysis, segmentation, predictive modeling, consulting and project management
• 5+ years Direct Marketing Industry experience
• Extensive experience programming in SAS
• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL a plus
• Experience in defining/designing/building/managing a data warehouse is a plus
• Working knowledge of Web Analytics and/or Consumer Risk Management practices a plus

About Alliant:

Alliant delivers consumer segmentation solutions that help marketers identify their top prospects and customers, creating higher levels of profit in direct and interactive marketing campaigns. Alliant’s proprietary Cooperative Performance databases are built from historical transaction-level customer records contributed by many of the world’s leading direct response marketers, powering marketing decisions with a rich, detailed source of consumer behavioral information. Alliant’s data-driven analytic solutions deliver increases in response and average order size, minimize payment risk, enable mining of new acquisition sources, and increase the success of customer retention and reactivation efforts for direct and interactive marketers. Based in Brewster, NY, Alliant is a Landmark Interactive company. Our web site is at www.alliantdata.com.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18079xStatisticianWestchesterNYAllianthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18079x.shtml?source=latproStatistician

Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions is looking for a statistician to work in our northern Westchester, New York office. This position will be mostly responsible for building predictive models and performing customer segmentation. The ideal candidate will have a wide-range of experience building regression models and presenting the results to senior management. Additionally, candidates should be familiar with large-scale databases, PC software, and database manipulation.

We are looking for candidates with:

• 2 - 5 years experience building predictive models
• Extensive experience programming in SAS and advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
• Strong quantitative/analytical skills and extensive attention to detail
• High energy level; flexible, adaptive, inquisitive and keen understanding of technology
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Graduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or related field
• Direct Marketing Industry experience a plus
• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL a plus
• Local candidates preferred

Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions is a Consumer Reporting Agency serving clients in the Direct Marketing industry. Alliant maintains a proprietary database of contributed consumer purchasing behavior which is used to predict the response and payment performance of marketing lists. Our team is a blend of experienced professionals with a wealth of Direct Marketing experience in marketing, analytics, list sales, risk consulting, product development and advertising. This is a great opportunity to join a growing company with vast opportunities and a strong corporate culture.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. Compensation will be based on salary and performance-based bonus. US citizens or permanent residents only please. Please send resume with salary requirements, include job name in subject line of email and address to: careers@alliantdata.com

Keywords:

SAS, SQL, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, risk management, direct marketing, Unix, logistic regression, statistician

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18081xDirector, Data Strategy & AnalyticsNew YorkNYhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18081x.shtml?source=latproAre you ready to join a high energy and fun new company in NYC working with a dedicated and talented team? We are looking for a true high level mathematics and statistics guru who is interested in becoming a thought leader and change agent in the $70B TV advertising marketplace. This hands-on manager must have experience in advising C-Level key business decisions using complex models they personally developed.

Only true statisticians need apply.

Key Skills:

• Thought Leadership. Design and construct analytical models.
• Expert knowledge of complex analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis.
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts.

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. This fast-paced start up is pioneering the development of predictive technology using a variety of data sources to help television companies deliver the right on-air promotions to the right viewers at the right time.

The Director, Data Strategy & Analytics (DS&A) drives Simulmedia’s data strategy. We need someone who is a leader of people and ideas. The candidate will conceive and implement the statistical and analytical methods necessary to understand television consumption habits of viewers and their responses to on-air promotion. The Director, DS&A will work closely with senior leadership, product and technology teams to refine and take to market Simulmedia’s offering.

The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, creative, and with a voracious, wide-ranging curiosity. She/he should have a strong applied math or computer science background and should have 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets.

The Director DSA’s responsibilities include:

• Developing, validating and maintaining audience data models and clustering/segmentation algorithms
• Designing requirements for structures to host data and support analytical applications required for the services
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts
• Identifying new sources of data to improve and enrich services
• Conceiving and implementing the analytical applications useful to media and marketing partners and conveying audience insights

• Expert knowledge of analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
• Power user of canned statistical analysis software (e.g. SAS, SPSS or Oracle data mining tools)
• 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets
• Strong data modeling and querying capability
• Master’s level degree (or equivalent expertise/knowledge) in quantitative or analytical discipline such as Statistics, Decision Sciences, Operations Research or Econometrics.
• 3-5 years experience developing analytical models in marketing, finance, advertising or economics.
• 2+ years leading a team of analysts
• Working knowledge of one or more software development languages expected (Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Perl)
• Marketing intuition and familiarity with the attention economy a plus

Please include Job number - Job 205

We offer competitive salary, benefits, vacation, stock options and a stake in our company’s success. For consideration please send your resume with a cover letter and salary history to Job 205, Director, DSA careers@simulmedia.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No search firms or phone calls please.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18082xSoftware Engineer Computational LinguisticsBostonMAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18082x.shtml?source=latproWe are a data driven start-up looking for a CTO to build a social media analytics application using Natural Language Processing with experience in web-scraping and text mining. Candidate will develop methodologies to find sentiment (sentiment in context, polarity, intensity, relationships between issues and reasons for issues), tuning for less formal content (tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech (POS) tagging, parsing, etc.) and finding embedded meaning and intelligence in less grammatical text. Experience in predictive modeling in data mining a plus.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years experience in a relevant field such as software engineering, machine learning programming, et al.
• The drive to work in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary start-up environment.
• A strong interest in online social networks and network/user dynamics.
• PhD in a computational linguistics or artificial intelligence is required.
• Experience with Python/MySQL/R and SaaS is preferred but not required.
• Excellent documentation skills & whitepaper authoring.
• Patent filing experience preferred.
• Experience in database design and search algorithms.

Currently seeking office space so ability to work remotely is a must.

Learn more: http://www.socialtality.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18083xSr. Consultant with Current, Active TS/SCI US Government ClearanceArlingtonVAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18083x.shtml?source=latproOpportunity for Sr. Consultant with Current, Active TS/SCI US Government Clearance – Individuals without TS/SCI or higher clearance level will not be considered

Location: Arlington, VA

Salary: $120K - $140K based on experience; Additional quarterly-bonus potential, based on overall company performance, exists.

For consideration, send resumes in Word to elena@williamstison.com.

Elena Howard, Principal at Williams Tison, LLC (www.williamstison.com) is conducting this search on behalf of client and may be reached for follow up at 703-830-7251.

As a Senior Consultant within the Global Services & Solutions team of a major Predictive Analytics firm, your primary responsibility will be to assist customers to achieve successful implementations of our Predictive Analytics Solution. The Senior Consultant will be proficient in delivering consulting services in more than one product line. This individual will help build ROI and identify cross-sell / up-sell opportunities for the product lines. The Senior Consultant has domain understanding and is able to work with current technical approaches as well as various solutions of company products and applications within the domain. This individual will also work with senior level consultants to develop consistent collateral and messaging.

The position requires a background in analytical software with a track record of successful implementations and a strong commercial acumen. In addition, the ability to define Solutions and ensure their successful implementation is required.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality consulting services in more than one product line
• Have domain understanding and solve typical domain issues. Work with various solutions of (COMPANY) products and applications within that domain.
• Help build ROI and identify cross-sell / up-sell opportunities
• Work with more senior level consultants to develop consistent collateral and messaging
• Assist Project Managers in the determination of customer needs
• Assist in the development of the Project Plan and Statement of Work, as and when required
• Assist in the investigation of feasibility of given consulting opportunities
• Understand customer business problems and (COMPANY) capabilities in order to recommend additional (COMPANY) products or applications
• Assist and guide external consultants with the completion of consulting projects
• Help train and mentor more junior consultants
• Keep up-to-date with competitor information and how this relates to our capabilities
• Produce Project Summaries for large-scale projects – defining business, business problem, (COMPANY) approach to solving problem, ROI
• Work with Professional Services Director and Sales to develop demonstrations/marketing collateral
• Maintain currency with (COMPANY) Inc. product focus areas
• Assist Sales in closing solution sales through either phone conferences or on-site visits
• Regularly update Project Managers of project status
• Attend external training courses related to fulfilling (COMPANY) consulting projects
• When required, travel to customer site to evaluate opportunity or to perform fulfillment of work
• Attend consulting meetings, when required
• Update (COMPANY) time tracking systems on a weekly basis
• Ensure personal utilization targets are met
• Use proactive measures to support sales process and generate additional revenue

• TS SCI active US government clearance or higher
• A bachelor’s degree in Applied Statistics, Data Mining or that containing a strong quantitative component, or equivalent work experience
• 4-7 years working in a similar role and customer facing environment with a software or consulting services provider
• Experience with projects that involve integrating multiple technologies and datasets to solve a business problem.
• Experience using at least 1 of the following
  • A BI Reporting tool
  • A multidimensional database product
  • A statistical modeling tool
  • A data mining tool
  • A market research tool
• Skills associated with any of the following product lines or Applications, namely:
  • Predictive Applications
  • SPSS Base
  • Clementine
  • Dimensions
  • ShowCase Suite
  Predictive Enterprise Services

• Good problem solver with strong business acumen
• Very strong customer service orientation
• Excellent communicator, including cross-cultural
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Good presentation, organizational, and planning skills
• Understanding of real-time operating systems an advantage
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to absorb new ideas and concepts quickly
• Experience leading in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Able to work with minimum supervision
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Drive – looking for evidence of ability to see projects through to completion
• Ability to influence customer technology decisions

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all tasks. Responsibility and requirements may be changed without notice, at the sole discretion of (COMPANY), Inc.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18086xComputational BiologistIndianapolisINDow AgroScienceshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18086x.shtml?source=latproR&D Operational Excellence
Job Number 0803155

Dow AgroSciences LLC, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, is a top-tier agricultural company that combines the power of science and technology with the Human Element to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. Dow AgroSciences provides innovative technologies for crop protection, pest and vegetation management, seeds, traits, and agricultural biotechnology to serve the world's growing population. Global sales for Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, are $4.5 billion. Learn more at www.dowagro.com.

Dow AgroSciences (DAS) seeks a Computational Biologist to assist in the design of experiments and the integration and analyses of omics datasets. This position is located in Indianapolis, IN, USA. The successful candidate will join the Computational Biology group of the R&D Operational Excellence function and will support all functions within DAS R&D.

Key job responsibilities will include development and application of computational biology, mathematical, and statistical algorithms and software to mine biological datasets. Design of biological experiments, analysis, interpretation and presentation of results are expected, as well as identification and implementation of new quantitative methods that improve the integrity and efficiency of the DAS product development cycle. Topics of interest include inferring accurate biological (metabolomic, proteomic and genetic) networks from large datasets, bioinformatics, proteomics, metabolomics, flux analysis, genomics, epigenetics, transcriptomics, information theory, dynamic Bayesian networks, ordinary differential equations, machine learning, support vector machines, instance-based algorithms, and decision trees.

Qualifications:

• The position requires Ph.D. in mathematics, physics, bioengineering, statistics, computer sciences or a closely related field. Two or more years of experience after graduate school is preferable, but not required.
• A solid foundation on analyses of omics data is required.
• Demonstrated ability to write scientific papers is also desirable.
• Strong communication skills are essential along with an ability to collaborate effectively with both laboratory and field scientists.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18087xSupply Chain Analytical Team, multiple positionsChicagoILhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18087x.shtml?source=latproManagement Recruiters of Seneca has a very large client in the northern Chicago suburbs that is building a Supply Chain Analytical Team and has asked us to find qualified candidates to fill multiple positions at various levels - Analysts, Sr. Analysts, Managers.

Qualified people will have a strong background in data analysis, modeling, statistical research, forecasting and data mining, with proven database skills in Access, SQL Server, Excel, etc. Experience in a fast paced, high volume Supply Chain/Inventory Management environment within a large Manufacturing and/or Distribution organization is a must.

If you have an interest in learning more, please send a current resume to resume@mriseneca.com (it won't go out to anyone without your approval) and let us know when you can talk freely. Unlike most recruiters, we will let you know who the client is, where, how much money, etc. if your skill set does meet the requirements. We know this has to be a fit for you as well as our client!

We look forward to hearing from you.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18088xSpecialistRockvilleMDKDDhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18088x.shtml?source=latproCompany: FINRA
Position: Specialist-KDD
Location: Rockville, MD
Web: www.finra.org

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA oversees nearly 5,000 brokerage firms, 173,000 branch offices and 656,000 registered securities representatives. FINRA's mission is to protect investors by maintaining the fairness of the U.S. capital markets.

In support of FINRA's Market Regulation staff, this position is responsible for defining, constructing and maintaining electronic surveillance programs designed to identify potential rule violations and/or market manipulation resulting in investor harm. Successful candidate is responsible for ensuring that assigned surveillance program areas reflects business and technical needs, and meets all end user requirements, including:

• Working closely with Regulatory Business managers to elicit business requirements from Regulation managers and staff.
• Analyzing large data sets, specifically Stock Market transactional data to prepare and present electronic surveillance program specifications.
• Encoding, testing, debugging and documenting surveillance programs and procedures.
• Monitoring and adapting electronic surveillance changes to address industry changes, data issues, participant behavior, and/or rule changes.
• Maintaining relationships with business users, internal and/or external participants. The ideal candidate is a quick learner and a clear communicator of abstract ideas, is able to work with minimal supervision, and is highly motivated and proficient in business/data analysis and SQL/SAS programming working with large data sets. Specific experience and job requirements include:
• Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years progressive experience in analyzing business needs and developing technical solutions.
• Ability to use SQL statements, TOAD/WinSQL, etc to extract and analyze large data sets.
• Ability to merge, manage, manipulate and analyze various data sets.
• Extreme attention to details.
• Strong proficiency in SAS; Experience with C++ and SQL
• Excellent people, communications and project management skills.
• A strong ability to adapt and problem solve.

All interested candidates can apply to our website at www.finra.org/careeropportunities.

Title: Specialist
Job Code: 2025

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18089xDatabase Marketing AnalystGermantownMDDatalab USAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18089x.shtml?source=latproCareer Description:

Database Marketing Analyst - Due to our continued growth we have an immediate need for a Database Marketing Analyst to further expand the capabilities of our award winning analytics team. The cross client position will be responsible for the development and maintenance of the analytical framework that meet the business goals of large scale direct marketing programs.

JOB SUMMARY:

• Analyze the effectiveness of existing predictive models and optimization strategies.
• Manage the full life cycle of model builds.
• Interface directly with clients to consult on the effectiveness of marketing programs.

• Analysis of entire business problems and management solution delivery.
• Management and development of the full life cycle of model builds.
• Programming with SQL.
• Working with extremely large datasets/datawarehouses.
• Strong data mining proficiency.
• SAS/CART/TREENET experience is a plus.

• Aptitude in critical thinking and problem solving.
• Ability to set priorities and work independently and with a team to meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal effectively in a team environment.

Bachelor's degree from a top-tier four-year college or university. Minimum 3 years of database marketing and data mining experience. Applicable experience with the Insurance and Financial industries is a strong advantage.

About Datalab USA

DataLab USA provides unrivaled data based support to marketing-oriented organizations. We combine state-of-the-art technology with practical, hands-on experience to offer a full range of services including data analysis, predictive modeling, data processing, and database management services. We offer a competitive, comprehensive compensation package, challenging work, and excellent career growth potential. Please submit cover letter and resume along with salary requirements and references to: jobs@datalabusa.com. No phone calls please.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18091xSr Manager of Analytics, Online AdvertisingCambridgeMAAkamaihttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18091x.shtml?source=latproAbout Akamai
If you use the Internet for anything - to check sports scores, book a hotel, track an order, or watch a movie trailer online - you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it. Akamai is the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. An S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 company, Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and collaborate for more than 2,000 enterprises. Akamai - Powering a Better Internet.

About the Team

You will be joining Akamai's Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) team - a new division focused on bringing to market a set of behavioral targeting products for the online advertising space. These solutions enable more precise, scalable, and efficient online advertising. You will be working with the largest Publishers, Advertisers, and Ad Networks on the Internet today.

About the Job

ADS's mission is to leverage Akamai's unique position in the Internet ecosystem - carrying web traffic for the premier ad networks, publishers, and advertisers - to reduce friction and expand the behaviorally targeted advertising ecosystem. By eliminating cumbersome pixel-based data sharing systems and inflexible segmentation systems, ADS intends to become a key part of online advertising universe. Our system has already been adopted by many of the leading advertisers and ad networks.

ADS also contains one of the Internets premier databases of online retail behavior - over 100 million anonymous user profiles based on data collected from over 500 retail and product manufacturer web sites. In Q4 2008, over $6.5M of revenue was generated from predictive analytics based products.

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for one of the critical aspects of the business - unlocking the value of data by leading our data modeling efforts. Initial responsibilities will include development of an incremental response methodology, multivariate testing, and systematic exploration of alternate data preparation and modeling approaches to optimize profit. Follow on-work may include segmentation and automatic text classification. This role will manage a small (1-3 person) team, and there will be an opportunity to grow and lead a larger analytics effort as the business unit expands.

Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS degree, advanced degree in Statistics, Computer Science, or Operations preferred
• Overall Experience: 5+ years of experience in applied data mining and modeling
• Experience in direct mail on in online behavioral advertising
• Research or related quantitative disciplines
• Substantial experience with one or more of the major data mining toolsets (SAS EM, SPSS Clementine, KXEN AF) and linear or logistic regression
• Ability to oversee development and develop in SQL, scripting languages, etc.
• Strong understanding of the data mining techniques (clustering, decision trees, SVM)
• Expertise in model design, variable selection and analytic record construction
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with automated text/web classification is a plus
• Prior management experience preferred

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18092xAnalytics ManagerAtlantaGAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18092x.shtml?source=latproJob Summary -(Role Summary)

Manage strategic and tactical analytics of all projects for the Product Management Department. Lead a team that provides analytical support for various projects including analysis, reporting, making new data sources accessible and market research. Develop analytical tools to measure the performance of various marketing initiatives across Global Distribution Marketing and also track the success of a product thru its life cycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities -(Key Activities)

• Manage the analysis of results of all business programs for the Product Management department
• Develop new methodology to track new products for the team from conception to completion and then ongoing tracking. Exploring and accessing new data sources and making these available to the business unit for self service.
• Oversee the creation of statistical methodology using SAS to better measure success of products and marketing initiatives from a pre and post launch perspective.
• Maintain cutting edge levels of web analytics for the team to be able to use the latest technology available to Product Management for web related projects, like split testing, conversion analysis, design improvements and online surveys.
• Proactively consult with business functional areas (Product mgmt., Americas Channel Analysis, Distribution Technology etc), to set analysis objectives.
• Provide results of these analysis in a format that is easy for the business units to understand and also maintain these results for future use (in a resource repository)
• Oversee the creation of statistical models for distribution business processes. Lead the team in the use of data mining software, and statistical/computational methods in order to take business needs and conceptualize queries that transform data from relational and flat-file database structures to achieve analytical objectives including statistical techniques for post promotion analysis and response modeling.
• Coach and develop team members; hire, fire, assess, discipline, document performance, recommend salary and classifications changes. Act as an advisor to subordinate staff to help meet established schedules and/or resolve technical or operational problems.

Education

Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or other quantitative discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.

Experience

6 -8 years progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines/processes related to the position including relational decision-support databases (preferably a data-warehousing environment), along with demonstrated quantitative/computational skills and web analytics.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing information to clients, vendors, senior management and staff and ability to prepare and deliver solid presentations to both small and large groups.
• Good communication strategy demonstrated for working with off-shore and remote teams.
• Experience with statistical software (SAS, SPSS) and on-line analytical processing tools.
• Must be proficient in the use of business software products such as Excel, Microsoft Access, Word, PowerPoint
• In depth knowledge of Web Analytics tools and vendors and working knowledge of industry trends.
• Demonstrated knowledge of internal business drivers and metrics and trends to be analyzed.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing analysis of distribution marketing and understands online and offline differences and effective uses for both.
• Demonstrate project management experience in organizing, planning and executing large Ð scale projects from conception through implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects concurrently with rapid turn around and high quality deliverables required.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18093xSenior Researcher, DataRushAustinTXPervasivehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18093x.shtml?source=latproJob Description:

Pervasive is seeking a Data Mining expert to support research and development of our Data Rush technology. The ideal candidate will research into potential future directions and current applications for Data Rush. Responsibilities include research into Data Mining in new application areas, cutting-edge technology research and implementation.

Required Experience and Education:

• Masters or PhD in Applied Math or Statistics or similar field.
• Strong background in Data modeling and mining, statistics, information theory, text-mining, data analysis, and other data mining techniques is a requirement
• Sound knowledge of standard computer science data structures and algorithms
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in formulating and solving large scale mathematical optimization problem
• The candidate should be able to code in Java, C/C++ and to a lesser extend Perl or similar language
• Proven ability to design and implement computational algorithms
• We are prepared to train you in some areas to augment your programming skill set. However, we do not believe it will be possible to perform this job without the required background in statistics, information theory, coding, data modeling and mining

• SQL databases and standard data analysis software
• Ability to use Rapid-Miner, S-Plus, Mat Lab, and Insightful Miner
• Experience developing/designing large software system

E-mail resume with cover letter to: Sonja.Coleman [at] pervasive.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18094xSenior Pricing AnalystSan FranciscoCAHotwirehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18094x.shtml?source=latproCompany Overview:

Day one. Step into the Hotwire offices. You'll be instantly greeted by a fun, fast-paced atmosphere. Working here, you'll be surrounded by a bright, motivated group of individuals who share a common goal—to make international and domestic travel-planning easy.

So what makes us Hotwire? Many wonderfully distinct things, including:

• Our open work environment
• People work hard, but get the opportunity to play hard outside the office
• Company-organized outings, including parties, charity events and volunteer days
• Great travel perks
• Vibrant startup atmosphere, yet the stability of being part of Expedia, Inc.
• Opportunities to grow
• An all-inclusive, diverse culture

Welcome. Now prepare for career take-off.

Hotwire.com is a leading discount travel Web site with consistently lower prices on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages. Launched in 2000 with funding from six major airlines, Hotwire negotiates deep discounts from its travel suppliers to help sell their excess inventory. Hotwire is a wholly owned subsidiary of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) and is based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit www.hotwire.com

Job Description:

The Revenue Management team at Hotwire is a strategic group responsible for identifying and driving significant revenue growth across all products. We admit that “revenue management” doesn’t sound like the most exciting thing in the world. But in fact this team and position offer an unparalleled opportunity to get exposure to multiple areas of the business and have significant impact. We work closely with other functions – product development, marketing, customer operations, and finance – with the express goal of using advanced analytics to inform decision making and drive performance. We are responsible for CRM analytics, financial forecasting, and product pricing for different Hotwire lines of business such as Hotel, Car, and Travel Ticker. As an analyst on the team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing programs in these areas to maximize Hotwire’s profitability.

So if you like variety, if you like learning and if you like having a meaningful and measurable impact, then this might be the position for you. Oh! And data. You have to like data. We love data here. We love it more than pizza. More than Oscar-winning movies. Seriously. We love data.

Core responsibilities:

• Closely monitor and diagnose consumer data to drive pricing changes
• Recommend and implement segmentation and pricing tactics that optimize profits
• Deploy, test, and manage pricing rules through the business rules engine
• Provide management with market and/or trend information, needed to make strategic decisions
• Develop consumer and pricing insights from sophisticated data-driven analysis that result in specific action plans
• Lead the development and evolution of analytical models establishing objectives, key metrics, and test plans
• Manage cross-functional ad hoc research requests
• Support periodic (annual, quarterly, monthly) budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting process

• Masters degree with 2-3 years of experience in a quantitative discipline (Industrial Engineering, Statistics, etc)
• Strong quantitative analysis, data-mining, and technical skills
• Strong business sense and logical skills to balance data-driven decisions with intuition
• Passionate about data, ability to work with large data-sets
• Experience using business intelligence and statistical analysis tools (e.g., Microstrategy, SQL, SAS, R)
• Prior experience in pricing, database-marketing or other quantitative area
• Prior experience with time series and forecasting
• Prior experience in leading cross-functional projects
• Prior exposure to CRM analytics a plus
• Experience using business rules management systems a plus
• Programming experience a plus

No Phone Calls Please
No Agencies or Recruiters

Email your resume with cover letter to: a-kcannon [at] hotwire.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18096xStatisticianNeedhamMAHebrew SeniorLifehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18096x.shtml?source=latproHebrew SeniorLife (HSL) is a 100+-year-old organization dedicated to providing seniors with the highest quality of life through an integrated network of health care, research, housing and teaching programs in the Greater Boston area. It is the largest nonprofit provider of senior health care and housing in New England. Our mission is to honor our elders by respecting and promoting their independence, spiritual vigor, dignity and choice and by recognizing that they are a resource to be cherished. Our health-care network comprises Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, a long-term, sub-acute, and long-term medical acute care facility in Boston; three senior housing sites: Jack Satter House in Revere, Simon C. Fireman Community in Randolph, and Center Communities of Brookline; and Orchard Cove, a life-care community in Canton. The Institute for Aging Research in Boston, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is one of the most prestigious aging research facilities in the country. HSL?s NewBridge on the Charles, our premier multigenerational continuing care retirement community in Dedham, consists of 256 independent living units, 50 assisted living units, 41 memory support assisted living units, and a 268-bed Health Care Center, which offers long-term and sub-acute care. Hebrew SeniorLife also offers services to the community, including Adult Day Health programs and outpatient clinics in audiology, exercise, memory disorders, osteoporosis screening, and rehabilitation.

The Statistician will be responsible for analyzing and interpreting data from various sources using standard statistical analysis software. Prepares reports, charts, and tables summarizing data and analyses. Maintain expertise in statistical analysis methods. Provides consultative service to investigators (e.g., methodology, design, analysis, sample size and power calculations). Collaborate with the project investigator, specify equations or algorithms for derived or constructed variables. Perform statistical and programming, including advanced programming (macros, custom programs) in SAS, SPSS, STATA, etc.

Position requires a Ph. D degree in statistics or biostatistics (or closely related field such as medical statistics, biometrics, epidemiology, medical informatics, biopharmaceutical statistics) 2-3 years of experience in a related field. Proficiency using standard statistical software (e.g., SAS, SPSS, STATA, Splus) to write programs to perform statistical analyses and prepare graphical displays of data. Excellent analytical skills required.

Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) is an equal opportunity employer, and we offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package, as well as many opportunities for personal and professional growth. If you are motivated by new opportunities and seek a stimulating and rewarding career, we invite you to join our diverse team of talented professionals who are dedicated to helping seniors and their families. Everything we do flows from these tenets and are further inspired by the duty of tikkun olam - to heal the world.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18097xPrincipal Engineer / Applied ScientistSan JoseCAeBayhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18097x.shtml?source=latproeBay is the world's largest online marketplace - where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. With a presence in 39 markets, including the U.S., and approximately 84 million active users worldwide, eBay has changed the face of Internet commerce. In 2007, the total value of sold items on eBay's trading platforms was nearly $60 billion. This means that eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,900 worth of goods on the site every second.

We are building a new team focused on using machine learning for merchandising and targeting on eBay with an initial charter to build a personalized merchandising system with near real-time feedback. If you are excited about building machine learning systems that serve a huge web audiences and advanced data mining solutions on petabytes of data - then this job is for you!

To learn more about the work and the team, please visit the LinkedIn profile of the hiring manager - Harshal Deo

Principal Engineer / Applied Scientist

About the OpportunityThis is a hands-on position with algorithm development and tuning responsibility for on line machine learning systems. The ideal candidate will be either a strong engineer with machine learning experience or a scientist with hands-on programming experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop machine learning algorithms and solutions.
• Design, train and deploy machine learning based models.
• Build, enhance and maintain various software components of the machine learning platform.
• Learn / understand marketing business problems and design creative and scalable solutions.
• Analyze large datasets - built from Petabyte scale data - to tune the models and algorithms for relevancy and targeting.

• Experienced engineer with machine learning experience or a scientist with hands-on programming experience.
• Machine learning / information retrieval / large data mining /Text mining experience.
• Understanding of statistics, Bayesian probability.
• Expert level programming skills with one scripting language like Perl / Python.
• Strong programming skills specifically working with C/C++ or Java. Experience with large databases / files and in memory data structures.
• Large dataset experience preferably working with complex enterprise / web datasets.

• BS / MS in computer science or related field and 7 to 10 years of related programming experience or PhD in computer science with 3 to 5 years of hands on programming experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications in a 'large data' environment is a must.

Hiring Manager: Harshal Deo

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18098xData Mining EngineerSan JoseCAeBayhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18098x.shtml?source=latproeBay is the world's largest online marketplace - where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. With a presence in 39 markets, including the U.S., and approximately 84 million active users worldwide, eBay has changed the face of Internet commerce. In 2007, the total value of sold items on eBay's trading platforms was nearly $60 billion. This means that eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,900 worth of goods on the site every second.

We are building a new team focused on using machine learning for merchandising and targeting on eBay with an initial charter to build a personalized merchandising system with near real-time feedback. If you are excited about building machine learning systems that serve a huge web audiences and advanced data mining solutions on petabytes of data - then this job is for you!

To learn more about the work and the team, please visit the LinkedIn profile of the hiring manager - Harshal Deo

Principal Data Mining Engineer

About the Opportunity

This position is part of a newly created Machine learning solutions team focused on merchandising and targeting at eBay. The individual who occupies this role will be in a hands-on leadership position with end-to-end responsibility for scalable machine learning solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work with a cross functional team (engineering, research and analytics) and provide data mining leadership to the team.
• Design advanced data mining solutions for mining Petabytes of data!
• Design and develop creative visualization and analytics tools for speeding data driven machine learning applications development.
• Lead, design and develop the data transformations needed for producing machine learning data sets.
• Learn / understand the marketing business problems and enable targeted solutions design using bottom up data driven design approach.
• Design tools & processes to help the analysts and research scientists to be more productive.

• Experienced software / research / data engineer with expert level database (SQL, data modeling) and programming skills.
• Solid understanding of data mining, analytics and visualization tools and libraries. Candidates with experience using those on large datasets preferred.
• Significant programming skills with one scripting language like Perl / Python. Or expert level reporting / ETL experience.
• Hands-on programming experience with languages such as C/C++ or Java, working with large databases / files and in memory data structures.
• Large dataset experience preferably working with com plex enterprise / web datasets - preferred.
• Understanding of machine learning / data mining / statistics is a plus but not required
• Need to be a team player with good cross functional / collaboration skills.

• BS / MS in computer science or related field and 7 to 10 years of related programming experience or r PhD in computer science with 5 to 7 years of hands on programming experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications in a business environment is a must.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18099xDirector of Decision ScienceMelvilleNYFirst Datahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18099x.shtml?source=latproThis position is responsible for the development and integration of data mining and predictive modeling applications for all aspects of the First Data Global Leasing organization, including risk management, collections, and retention. The successful candidate will be an independent thinker and problem solver, with the ability to translate business problems into analytic solutions. There is a significant amount of interaction with senior management, from brainstorming new ideas and solutions, discussing business objectives/problems, presenting proposed solutions and 'selling ideas', to presenting analytic content and showing bottom-line benefit. This position will also be partially responsible for evaluating all aspects of developing and maintaining long-term strategic platforms for supporting data mining applications within the First Data Global Leasing organization. This position will lead R&D activities to solve for complex problems in the organization, forming contacts with academia and industry experts.

The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a highly technical/mathematical discipline (i.e., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics) with extensive knowledge in statistical theory (regression and multivariate statistics) and data mining techniques. Work experience utilizing predictive modeling and advanced data mining techniques in a real-world setting, preferably in a credit-related environment, is required. Candidate should be familiar with Decision trees, Neural Network, and logistic regression techniques, theory and application. The person we are seeking will have extremely effective communications, organizational and project management skills. General knowledge of database systems such as Access and Oracle, SAS programming experience and strong overall technical skills are required.

5+ years of experience is preferred.

Email resume to: Jodi.cohen [at] firstdata.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18100xAnalytics and Modeling ProfessionalOmahaNEWest Asset Managementhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18100x.shtml?source=latproWest Asset Management is currently seeking an analytics and modeling professional to join our dynamic data mining and modeling team within our Analytic Intelligence Group. Data Mining Analysts are responsible for conducting analytical and data-mining projects to prioritize customer contacts and improve operational performance. Successful candidates will have the appropriate mixture of analytics / research skills and familiarity with the practical business applications of predictive modeling within the accounts receivable management industry. Other success factors include the abilities to work in a fast-paced team environment while handling multiple projects simultaneously, to prioritize tasks and complete projects with minimal direct supervision, and to clearly communicate and present complex analytics results to internal business clients in practical and simple business terms.

Applicants for this job will be expected to meet the following minimum qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, Mathematics, MIS, Psychology, or related field required.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Psychology, MIS, or related field preferred. Equivalent work experience in a similar position may be substituted for educational requirements.

Minimum two years experience in statistics, data mining, or direct marketing consulting required.

Technical Knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint Required
• Knowledge of program languages (e.g., C++ C, etc.) preferred
• Knowledge of Databases (SQL, IBMDB2) preferred
• Knowledge of Statistical Software (SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Enterprise Guide, SPSS, etc.) preferred

West Asset Management is a leader in the cost containment and accounts receivable management industry. Backed by our $2 billion parent company, West Corporation, West Asset Management helps premier businesses and institutions maximize their return on receivables at every stage of the recovery cycle. As one of the nation's leading receivables management companies, we offer a full suite of receivables management solutions to a wide variety of industries.

Check out our opportunities and see the difference a career can make.

www.westassetmanagement.jobs
Job requisition # 927391 You must apply online to be considered.

West Asset Management. Achieve more.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18101xStatistics EngineerSunnyvaleCAEfficient Frontierhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18101x.shtml?source=latproEfficient Frontier (www.efrontier.com), a leading SEM solution provider, is looking for a statistics engineer to maintain and enhance models and algorithms in Sunnyvale, CA, office.

Responsibilities

• Enhancement of currently defined models and heuristic applications
• Development of customized models
• Programming predictive modeling algorithms
• Assessing the statistical significance of performance differences between models; e.g. hypothesis testing to compare a model with new features to an already deployed model.

• Master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in quantitative discipline: statistics, econometrics, applied math, computer science, machine learning
• Comprehensive understanding of some of the following quantitative methods: multivariate regression, classification, cluster analysis, simultaneous equation models, decision trees, hypothesis testing, neural nets, SVM, time series, outlier identification, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations etc.
• Proficiency in R/ SAS/ SPSS and SQL
• Experience with large data sets
• Exposure to operations research/ linear and non-linear optimization concepts is a plus

Please e-mail your resume to: jobs@efrontier.com.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18102xDirector, Data Strategy & AnalyticsNew YorkNYSimulmediahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18102x.shtml?source=latproAre you ready to join a high energy and fun new company in NYC working with a dedicated and talented team? We are looking for a true high level mathematics and statistics guru who is interested in becoming a thought leader and change agent in the $70B TV advertising marketplace. This hands-on manager must have experience in advising C-Level key business decisions using complex models they personally developed.

Only true statisticians need apply.

Key Skills:

• Thought Leadership. Design and construct analytical models.
• Expert knowledge of complex analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis.
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts.

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. This fast-paced start up is pioneering the development of predictive technology using a variety of data sources to help television companies deliver the right on-air promotions to the right viewers at the right time.

The Director, Data Strategy & Analytics (DS&A) drives Simulmedia's data strategy. We need someone who is a leader of people and ideas. The candidate will conceive and implement the statistical and analytical methods necessary to understand television consumption habits of viewers and their responses to on-air promotion. The Director, DS&A will work closely with senior leadership, product and technology teams to refine and take to market Simulmedia's offering. The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, creative, and with a voracious, wide-ranging curiosity. She/he should have a strong applied math or computer science background and should have 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets.

The Director DSA's responsibilities include:

• Developing, validating and maintaining audience data models and clustering/segmentation algorithms
• Designing requirements for structures to host data and support analytical applications required for the services
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts
• Identifying new sources of data to improve and enrich services
• Conceiving and implementing the analytical applications useful to media and marketing partners and conveying audience insights

• Expert knowledge of analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
• Power user of canned statistical analysis software (e.g. SAS, SPSS or Oracle data mining tools)
• 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets
• Strong data modeling and querying capability
• Master's level degree (or equivalent expertise/knowledge) in quantitative or analytical discipline such as Statistics, Decision Sciences, Operations Research or Econometrics.
• 3-5 years experience developing analytical models in marketing, finance, advertising or economics.
• 2+ years leading a team of analysts
• Working knowledge of one or more software development languages expected (Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Perl)
• Marketing intuition and familiarity with the attention economy a plus

We offer competitive salary, benefits, vacation, stock options and a stake in our company's success.

For consideration please send your resume with a cover letter and salary history to careers@simulmedia.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18103xHuman Resources Workforce Planning AnalystWarrenvilleILNational Expresshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18103x.shtml?source=latproNational Express Corporation (NEC), a nationwide leader in student transportation services, is made up of Durham School Services in the United States and Stock Transportation in Canada. Both Durham and Stock share a strong commitment to provide quality transportation, outstanding customer service, positive employee relations and the highest level of safety.

We are currently seeking a Human Resources Workforce Planning Analyst to work from our Warrenville, IL location. As an HR Workforce Planning Analyst, you will have the opportunity to support the Driver Recruiting Team with research, analysis, reports and recommendations related to all aspects of Driver recruitment and retention. You will create, assess, evaluate and report on recruitment activity metrics. In this role, you will develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external recruitment stakeholders to support enhancement of Driver recruitment and retention.

Requirements Include:

• Undergraduate degree in a related discipline or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
  • Demonstrated experience using software programs (e.g. Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Office, Excel, Access, various internet browsers) to monitor, track and report on hiring progress and results; conduct internet searches and research and prepare reports.
  • Experience in a recruiting environment, providing HR support and analysis or similar environment requiring data analytics processing or customer service.
  • Knowledge of the principles, practices, concepts, methods, tools, techniques and issues of recruitment to research, analyze, evaluate and make effective recommendations on a variety of aspects of recruitment
  • Knowledge of research, analytical and statistical assessment and evaluation methods and techniques to analyze a large volume of data and identify trends and issues.
  • Well-developed oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to work in a team environment

Apply Online

or visit our website at www.nationalexpresscorp.com, select the “Join Our Team” tab, select our “Illinois” location, and submit your resume via the website directly.

National Express Corporation is an equal opportunity employer

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18106xAnalytics ScientistMountain ViewCALinkedInhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18106x.shtml?source=latproLinkedIn is used by more than 38 million professionals around the world to exchange information, ideas and opportunities. We’re changing the way business gets done by creating a platform that enables people to control their identities online, manage their most valued professional relationships, get unique insights to help them in their jobs, and develop new relationships.

We're looking for superb analytical minds to expand our team that will build some of the most innovative products at LinkedIn. You should be extremely intelligent, have a quantitative background, and be able to learn quickly and work independently. This is the perfect job for someone who's really smart, driven, and extremely skilled at creatively solving problems. A strong background in statistics, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, programming, and product design is a plus, but most importantly you've got to start with what we can't teach...intellectual sharpness and creativity.

This is a unique opportunity to help define and build a new product and engineering team within a mid-sized (360 employees), globally-recognized, energetic, ambitious, and profitable pre-IPO startup. LinkedIn has amassed an incredible dataset, which we use to deliver highly personalized experiences for all our users. Our group also leverages our unique dataset, our creativity, and our skill with quantitative analysis to design and and build products like "people you may know", "who's viewed my profile", "jobs for you", and "company profiles" and core data infrastructure on which many of our products rely on (e.g. standardizing companies). The environment here is optimized for speed--for example, within a week of the initial concept for "viewers of this profile also viewed", it was live on the site. There are many products along these lines that you can help improve, develop and invent. The work is both intellectually rewarding and delivers important value to our users. In addition, the work's varied: one week, you may be involved in predicting which ads a specific user is likely to click on (profile targeted advertising), and the next, working on a model that decides whether 'Webex, Inc' is the same as 'Webex Communications' (it isn't). Changing the way business gets done around the world is no easy task, which is why we only hire the best and the brightest people who are motivated to challenge the norms, continually innovate and learn, and help others. If you fit this profile, then LinkedIn will be a rewarding and interesting place for you.

Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18107xActuaryLouisvilleKYHumanahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18107x.shtml?source=latproHumana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies. Humana offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services - through traditional and consumer-choice plans - to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals.

Today, Humana is a leader in consumer engagement. Throughout its diversified customer portfolio, the company provides guidance that can both help lower costs and lead to a better health plan experience.

Are you a fit?
Are you a detail-oriented analytical thinker? Would you enjoy using your mathematical knowledge to analyze and improve current business processes? If so, read on!

Assignment Capsule
As an Actuarial Analyst you will develop technical and business knowledge by collecting and analyzing data related to product development, pricing, reserving, financial reporting and other actuarial functions.

• Apply expertise and technical support, under the guidance of seasoned associates, in matters related to the successful and financially sound operation of the companies business to the departments external and internal customers.
• Analyze experience reports and manual rate analyses, developing recommendations for improvements, and preparing state filings for rate changes and product implementation that will ensure the profitability and financial integrity of Humana’s business.
• Evaluate reserving estimates and assess their adequacy.
• Act as liaison to the IT department to ensure that effective rating systems are in place.

• Builds Trust: You honor your word by doing what you say you are going to do.
• Implementation/Execution: You are good at organizing and managing multiple priorities and/or projects by using appropriate methodologies and tools.
• Innovate: You introduce new ideas and processes which improve performance and productivity.
• Problem Solving: You are a problem solver with the ability to encourage others in collaborative problem solving. Acting as both a broker and consultant regarding resources, you engage others in problem solving without taking over.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18108xSenior Data Mining SpecialistSanta MonicaCAActivisionhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18108x.shtml?source=latproActivision is looking for an outstanding Sr. Data-Mining Specialist with a passion for games to join our Central Design and Technologies team. This individual will have a pragmatic approach to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The ideal candidate will possess peerless data-mining and analytical skills, a boundless intellectual curiosity, and demonstrated ability to not only to extract gold from terabytes of data, but to present the results in a concise and meaningful manner. This is a critical hire with a potential for rapid growth.

Basic Function:

The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist will personally drive exploration and analysis of large, complex data sets representing hundreds of millions of real-world play sessions. Responsibilities include working with Central Design and Technologies to establish the feasibility of critical studies, choosing the right tools and techniques to mine the data in a timely way, iterating on data visualization, and actively steering the data-mining group towards interesting results.

The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must have a deep knowledge of and passion for all aspects of analysis; from seeing the possibilities in a given dataset, to using standard tools to perform complex extraction and analysis, to presenting results in a meaningful way. Problem-solving, prioritizing the need for timely answers while being open to discovery, and attention to detail must be second nature. The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must thrive in a challenging and ambiguous environment and be adept at driving to meaningful results regardless of technical or organizational hurdles. The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must be pragmatic and practical, rather than scholastic in their approach.

Principal Working Relationships:

• Sr. Director of Game Design (reports to)
• VP of Online Technology and Central Online team
• Database architects and programmers
• Sr. online staff at development studios

• Relevant degree required; advanced degree a plus
• 8 years experience and demonstrated expertise in data-mining and statistical analysis
• Possess strong understanding of standard data-mining tools and techniques. Experience with diverse statistical and data mining methods (e.g., cluster analysis, GLM/Regressions, Trees, SVMs, etc.). Social network analysis experience is a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of the realities of working with large, rich datasets
• Demonstrated ability to compromise and improvise while driving for results
• Must be committed to finding useful answers to fascinating questions
• Able to work and problem solve independently, to organize workload and priorities, and complete tasks on time
• Proven ability for high-quality execution, technical innovation/adaptation, and initiative.
• Avid gamer with a strong interest and knowledge of the video game industry

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18111xStatistical Marketing AnalystSaint PetersburgFLKobiehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18111x.shtml?source=latproKobie Marketing is a growing, nationally recognized industry leader in the customer retention and loyalty marketing industry. We are experts at developing, implementing, and managing industry leading loyalty marketing programs. Our vast experience is complemented by a culture that is deeply committed to client service. Our employees are the reason behind our success, and we would like to offer you an opportunity to build a successful career as a part of our team. To learn more about the benefits of working at Kobie please visit our website at www.kobie.com.

Kobie Marketing currently has an opening in the Strategic Services Division for a Statistical Marketing Analyst. The ideal Statistical Marketing Analyst will have a strong understanding of database marketing, interpretation of data, analyzing results, and recommending further uses of the data for marketing and planning purposes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage customer behavior-based models, analyzing, executing, maintaining, enhancing and interpreting the models and their outputs.
• Explore, expand and improve the capabilities of the models so as to exploit to their full advantage.
• Provide customized analytic services for database modeling and market research projects.
• Provide and present insights on customer attitudes and behavior to support actionable marketing strategy and tactics.

• Strong problem solving skills; can think independently with strong intellectual curiosity.
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, or other similar statistical programs as demonstrated by the ability to write statistical programming codes/syntax.
• Detailed knowledge and experience in performing data manipulation (code/syntax writing), i.e., data recode, transpose, cleansing, and other necessary requirements before any data analysis.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Multivariate and advanced statistics including regression analysis (GLM), factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminate analysis, conjoint analysis, categorical data analysis, and decision trees.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite with advanced Excel skills.
• A Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Social Sciences or related quantitative fields, or equivalent experience.
• MS SQL, SAS, Microsoft Office Suite with advanced Excel skills. Experience with Tableau a plus
• 3-5 years minimum work experience in analytics. 5-7 years or equivalent experience in related field preferred

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18112xInformation Retrieval Software EngineerSeattleWAAmazonhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18112x.shtml?source=latproAmazon.com's Darwin team is looking for exceptional software engineers to develop algorithms and build systems to automatically solve a variety of Information Retrieval and Data Mining problems related to the Amazon Product Catalog - one of the company's biggest asset.

Our principal challenge is to improve the shopping experience by detecting duplicate products for sale in the catalog and merging them. Merchants on Amazon.com provide information about the products they want to sell. Amazon attempts to match these product data submissions to items in its catalog so that it can display offers for the same product on a single page. Poorly structured or incomplete data makes this problem very challenging and often results in duplicate products getting created in the catalog. These duplicate products are shown in search results and end up confusing customers, leading to a bad customer experience. The Darwin team detects these duplicate products in the Amazon.com catalog using an innovative mix of Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Text Analysis algorithms and human intelligence harnessed via the Amazon Mechanical Turk. We then automatically merge products detected as duplicates together, improving customer experience and the quality of the catalog.

We are also responsible for a variety of other Catalog-related projects such as placing Product Advertisements on pages, automatically extracting important product features from the product description with a view to improving the discovery (search and browse) experience on the website and detecting egregious cases of poor quality data provided by sellers.

We are a highly-motivated, co-operative and fun loving team who thrive on solving challenging problems with innovation. As part of this team you will be analyzing data, developing new algorithms, building large-scale distributed software systems in Java using open source technologies such as Apache Lucene and JBoss and other Amazon.com proprietary technologies.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Math or related field with 2+ years of experience.
• Past experience in at least one of the following areas - Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Text Analysis or Machine Learning.
• Desire to analyze data while developing solutions to problems.
• Strong desire to build high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
• Strong design and coding skills in Java/C++ on Unix Platforms.
• Familiar with Perl and have a good understanding of SQL.
• Be highly innovative, flexible and self-directed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18113xDirector, AnalyticsNew YorkNYGilt.comhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18113x.shtml?source=latproGilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to men’s, women’s and children’s coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Launched in November 2007, Gilt Groupe is a new and exciting online fashion business, revolutionizing the way consumers across America shop. Headquartered in New York, Gilt Groupe is a members-only sample sale website, providing an exclusive sneak-peek into the latest collections of high-end fashion at highly discounted prices. With a limited time window of 24-48 hours to shop each designer sale, members have exclusive access to a fresh and exciting roster of desirable merchandise every week!

Gilt Groupe is built upon proven, successful track records and is a fully funded company. Members of the founding team bring experience from eBay, DoubleClick, Saks Fifth Avenue and many more. We are growing rapidly and offer very competitive salary with equity.

The primary responsibility for this role is using data to help the business make better decisions in areas of marketing, CRM, customer retention, merchandising and pricing and strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will have strong consultative skills in addition to quantitative ability, and will be aware of the challenges of using statistics in a business setting, such as incomplete data, biased data, and large data sets. Requires being creative and resourceful in use of both traditional and newer statistical and data mining techniques. This is green fields opportunity to build something from the ground up and a chance to model a business that has not existed before.

Responsibilities

• Use personalization techniques to drive business metrics, such as revenue through site and email channels.
• Build models to predict milestone customer behaviors, acquisition, conversion, retention.
• Ensure rigor in any testing program. Lead by example.
• Model product price sensitivity.
• Develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis
• Discover and drive new opportunities to optimize the business.
• In partnership with the Director, Business Intelligence identify opportunities to enrich our data to improve our modeling.
• Partner with IT to implement models and tests
• Hire and mentor a small team

• Experience with data mining in a marketing context, but not solely marketing. Breadth is appreciated.
• Experience with statistical software, such as SPSS, S+, SAS, R. (Product not yet selected.)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience with SQL, relational database design and methods for efficiently retrieving data from them.
• 7-10 years professional experience.
• Must be able to maintain a big picture perspective.
• Must have entrepreneurial spirit and drive, thriving in a fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing industry.
• Masters Degree in statistics, econometrics or related field. Ph.D. preferred.
• Experience with survey a plus.
• Fluent in a major programming language a plus.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18114xMarketing Mix ModelerChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18114x.shtml?source=latproThe Commander of Calculations. The Numerical Genius. The Translator.

The Draftfcb Marketing Mix Modeler.

At Draftfcb the M3 will lead quantitative modeling in granular marketing return on objectives/investment partnerships and produce actionable marketing mix analysis for our clients. The M3 should be self directed with prior experience in developing models for a variety of products. The position will report in to the Marketing Mix Practice Lead at Draftfcb.

The Position

• As an integral part of the marketing mix team, identify the business objectives and financial specifics for marketing accountability specific to each client project.
• Determine data sources and granularity; assess data quality
• Apply deep understanding of mass media planning and buying, retail audits and scanner data, in-store marketing, direct marketing, online media metrics and elements in the marketing mix (including pricing, and distribution) to develop appropriate modeling strategies
• Lead the data setup, statistical analysis and build marketing mix models
• Derive key actionable insights and generate interactive marketing mix optimization tools

• Advanced degree with heavy quantitative coursework (e.g., marketing analytics, statistics, math, economics)
• 8-10 years’ experience in marketing analytics or related field such as advertising, retail marketing, product marketing, direct marketing, online marketing, loyalty marketing, etc.
• 3-5 years’ experience in hands-on marketing mix modeling
• Experience with syndicated data sources such as Nielsen, IRI, and brand health data preferred
• strong quantitative skills and demonstrable experience in statistical/econometric modeling of marketing investment data
• Previous experience developing marketing models for a variety of products (CPGs, durables etc.) and service providers (financial, insurance, telecom etc.)

• Good grasp of time series predictive modeling, forecasting, media/channel optimization and how they relate to marketing strategy
• Proficiency with SPSS/SAS, and advanced analytics required

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses.

It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Email resume to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18201xDirector, Marketing Science and Innovation GroupLos AngelesCAOTXhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18201x.shtml?source=latproReports to SVP, Marketing Science & Innovation
OTX – Los Angeles
Email Resume Submissions to careers@otxresearch.com.

Mission statement for the MSI group

• Provide realizable and sustainable methodological foundations for all OTX products and project insights
• Maximize profit by balancing investment in analytics with in-house capabilities and high quality outside partners
• Implement cutting edge innovative methods for insight
• Develop optimization methods for our clients’ business issues
• Use the MSI group as a point of differentiation for OTX in the marketplace
• Expand our role as industry thought leaders
• Continue introduction of best practices in science to market research

This is a key function within the Marketing Science & Innovation Group and the Director, Marketing Science & Innovation will contribute across all elements of the MSI mission statement.

Specifically, this individual will be a primary contact internally for new product development efforts and the execution and management of marketing science components of client projects.

Duties include research study design, statistical and modeling analysis, helping create cutting edge methods for new products, interacting with client service and external clients to understand business needs and implementation/development of standards for tracking data and other continuous research projects.

The Director, MSI will stay abreast of new data analysis techniques, modeling approaches and applications from related scientific disciplines and consider how these approaches can improve OTX deliverables.

Experience / skills required

Qualifications must include:

• Undergraduate degree with work in mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences and/or quantitative business analysis (Advanced degree preferred)
• Minimum 1 - 2 years of related MR experience
• Extensive knowledge of research computing
• Programming language tools (Perl, Java, SQL, R, C++, etc.)
• Tasks (large data set manipulation, distributed computing, system engineering)
• Comprehensive knowledge of multivariate statistical techniques
• Familiarity with or interest in advanced methods such as:
  • neural networks
  • genetic algorithms
  • agent based models
  • Bayesian belief systems
• Technical knowledge/understanding/background in SQL, Database Design, and Data Processes
• Strong communication and follow-up skills; including clearly communicating with management, customers and vendors
• Capable of working independently and with multiple departments
• Complex database and data management experience

Compensation Commensurate with Experience

OTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications are encouraged from all persons regardless of their race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, marital status, religious creed, medical/physical/mental condition, sexual orientation, Veteran status, or age.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18203xSr. Statistician, 1 year contractSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18203x.shtml?source=latproWe are a technology consulting company currently working with our direct clients including eBay, Paypal, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Cisco, EMC, Symantec, S&P, Novell, Agilent, Verisign, Hitachi, Genentech, Novartis amongst others enabling the success of their Software as well as IT infrastructure development initiatives through the quality of our consultants. Our website url is www.akraya.com.

I would really like to discuss this position with you. Kindly mail me resumes in word format at shrijeet.nair@akraya.com so that we can discuss further. Feel free to call me at my direct # 408.512.2371 .

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The ideal candidate will:

• Be deeply knowledgeable about data mining, modeling.
• Invent, develop, and execute innovative approaches to improving the performance of online marketing efforts.
• Build relationships with the client and the account management teams.
• Participate in the active management and continued development of the analytic team’s systems and processes. The ideal candidate will be a valued contributor, leveraging his/her expertise and analytical perspective.
• Understand the underlying pains of a client, and then formulate and implement solutions to resolve the client’s issues via data and analytics.
• Work collaboratively with other analytics team members. Share knowledge across the board.
• Provide analytic service: building out the analytic service framework.

• Experience working with web analytics data or financial data.
• Solid understanding of online media, search, digital industry trends, etc.
• Superior analytical skills, including experience using detailed data files to answer questions and solve problems.
• Exceptional creative and inventive mindset. Strong desire to build unique, world-class analytical solutions.
• Strong technical skills, both from a hands-on programming perspective, as well as a “big picture” perspective regarding analytics.
• The need to continually develop the analytical knowledge base, and to help grow the team into a best in class search marketing and analytics powerhouse.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills are essential to this position. The candidate will have proven communication skills that demonstrate understanding of complex data or statistical details, clarity of thought, relating complex information to non-technical users, and the ability to persuade others.
• Exceptional attention to detail, and a burning desire to make analyses precise. A successful candidate will explore every aspect of the data in an analysis from the observed behavior to the processes that create the data. Skepticism is key. Take proud in delivering high quality results.
• Some knowledge of the online space from a marketing perspective.

Candidates with one or more of the following are desirable:

• Excellent communications and listening skills to work directly with clients, understanding their needs and then formulating and executing solutions to address those needs.
• Experience in R, S+, SAS and SQL programming. Proven product development experience such as automated reporting, scraping tool using R or SAS, etc.
• Quantitative degree – advanced degree in statistics/economics preferred.
• Substantial work experience in data analytics and modeling - 6+ yrs
• Database or direct marketing
• Consulting
• database and/or business intelligence experience

URL: www.akraya.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18204xTechnical Product Specialist, Analytics, SAS, SPSS, S+, and RBostonMAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18204x.shtml?source=latproProvide pre-sales technical expertise and product knowledge in the area of advanced analytics (products including SAS, R, SPSS, S+, and others) to assist in our sales efforts and partnering activities.

Responsibilities:

Specialist would support field sales in engagements where advanced analytics will be utilized or is a key to the sales cycle. Also would provide corporate based resources with hands-on knowledge of customer requirements and current technology trends.

Work with various account teams to provide technical sales support in sales/product presentations, product positioning, product demonstration, and implementation. Serve as the corporate product specialist and functional expert for a wide range of analytic tools. Build proof-of-concept analytic applications based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping. Provide advanced analytics product evaluation support, product installation, application prototyping and benchmarks, often times in conjunction with a technology partner.

Skills:

• Knowledge of leading-edge statistical and quantitative analytical methods and experience with statistical analysis tools such as SAS, SPSS, S+, and R
• Ability to partner with customers, technology partners, and internal teams to define implementation strategies, review best practices, prototypes, and deliver initial solution implementations
• Experience with BI tools such as Business Objects, MicroStrategy, and Cognos
• Experience with ETL tools such as Infomatica, DataStage, and Ab Initio
• Experience writing complex SQL queries, and fluency with C++/C, Java, Python, R, and MapReduce
• Experience with parallel database technologies helpful
• Excellent communication skills and ability to speak to technical and business stakeholders and users
• Solid understanding of support/sales/account management workflow
• Detail-oriented; passion for getting involved with many different products, as well as understanding their form and functionality at a detailed level
• Proven track record of excellent presentation, documentation, and customer interaction skills
• Demonstrated experience in successfully advocating customer needs

Experience implementing advanced analytic applications in a customer and partner environment.

Education:

University Degree essential - Computer Science preferred. Advanced degree a plus. Database, business analytics, BI technology consulting also a plus.

Please respond to:

Jim Stewart
Stewart Systems Inc.
781-639-2900
Email: StewartSystems [at] verizon.net (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18206xSAS ConsultantRomeItalySmith Hanleyhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18206x.shtml?source=latpro

Smith Hanley Consulting Group was founded nearly 30 years ago and has 12 offices throughout the United States. We are a specialized recruiting services organization and are part of inVentiv Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTIV), the leading provider of commercialization and complementary services to global pharmaceutical, life sciences, biotechnology, and other industries. We have two divisions within Smith Hanley Consulting Group that offer exceptional staffing solutions to our clients.

Global Financial Services company is seeking a SAS Consultant for a project in Rome, Italy. The ideal candidate will be responsible for manipulating large amounts of transactional data for reporting and promotional purposes revolving around marketing campaigns and promotions. The Consultant must have a proven track record in financial/marketing based business intelligence. The ability to communicate those results and to formulate recommendations to senior management both in Italy and the US, will be critical for success in this position. Lastly, participation in face-to-face client initiatives will be required; therefore must be fluent in Italian and English.

Required Skills:

• 3-5 years of SAS MACROS/ BASE programming and development experience to include very strong data management skills
• Prepare pre-campaign analysis, campaign tracking, and backend campaign profitability and sustainability
• Windows and UNIX (preferably AIX) experience
• Strong SQL skills
• Oracle
• MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18210xStatistics EngineerSunnyvaleCAEfficient Frontierhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18210x.shtml?source=latproEfficient Frontier (www.efrontier.com), a leading SEM solution provider, is looking for a statistics engineer to maintain and enhance models and algorithms in Sunnyvale, CA, office.

Responsibilities

• Enhancement of currently defined models and heuristic applications
• Development of customized models
• Programming predictive modeling algorithms
• Assessing the statistical significance of performance differences between models; e.g. hypothesis testing to compare a model with new features to an already deployed model.

• Master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in quantitative discipline: statistics, econometrics, applied math, computer science, machine learning
• Comprehensive understanding of some of the following quantitative methods: multivariate regression, classification, cluster analysis, simultaneous equation models, decision trees, hypothesis testing, neural nets, SVM, time series, outlier identification, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations etc.
• Proficiency in R/ SAS/ SPSS and SQL
• Experience with large data sets
• Exposure to operations research/ linear and non-linear optimization concepts is a plus

Please e-mail your resume to: jobs@efrontier.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18211xSoftware Development Engineer, Personalization PlatformSeattleWAAmazonhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18211x.shtml?source=latpro

We know what people want before they know it themselves. Amazon.com's product recommendations are among our most popular and best-loved features and help drive customer delight by recommending relevant, serendipitous products based on each customer's unique interests. Be part of the team that collects customer behavior data in real-time, and uses this data to recommend the perfect products to millions of customers every day.

Requirements:

You should have a track record of operational excellence, a bias for action and ability to brainstorm and prototype ideas efficiently as well as the following:

• A BS in computer science or equivalent, along with at least 3 years of software development experience.
• Strong OO design and Java coding skills.
• Ability to think quantitatively.
• Experience in recommender systems, data mining, machine learning, or artificial intelligence in a commercial setting is desired.
• Experience in parallel computing and developing high throughput, high availability systems is desired.

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18211x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18212xSr. Software Development Engineer in TestBellevueWABinghttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18212x.shtml?source=latproLooking for the challenge of a different kind of test problem? Ever thought of how you would verify software that mines petabytes of data to produce metrics that are business critical. How would you verify that metrics are meaningful? How would you test that metrics are indeed accurate? If you want to play a key part in building the largest and most innovative Business Intelligence and advanced analytics system in the world. Come talk to us!

Microsoft online services generate huge amount of data ranging from user interaction logs, web documents, user feedback, to system performance data. The data contains valuable information for building the #1 search engine to serve people's information needs. The data is also critical for making appropriate business decisions. The main challenge is to effectively process the data, discover information and put it into action. We are developing advanced and practical data mining, and machine learning techniques to derive information to understand user intent, discover patterns to improve search relevance and results ranking, detect and filter bot traffic, spam, and noise, and measure relevance and user satisfaction quickly and effectively, identify weak points of the search engine, discover system performance systems, measure/understand the health of the online business, and many more. We also work on techniques to manage and process petabytes of data efficiently and effectively. Our BI pipelines use Cosmos, a highly-scalable, highly-available distributed storage/processing infrastructure to collect massive data and in conjunction of SQL server and SQL reporting service to perform analysis on the data and expose results to business teams, Bing feature teams and leadership teams.

The Bing Infrastructure Data Mining team is looking for experienced SDET to contribute to test these unique and challenging problems. Verify that the data pipeline is fully functional, that the metrics produced are reliable, meaningful and accurate, so that the decisions made on them are sound. You will be testing a pipeline that not only processes data quickly and reliably, but is also able to scale up to handle some of the largest data sets on earth!

Responsibilities of the Senior SDET:

• Develop optimal test case design, equivalence classing, and matrix reduction
• Develop test methods that improve coverage for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Identify opportunities to adopt or develop better automation tools
• Analyze patterns of defects for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Conduct preliminary root cause analyses that increase team productivity
• Collaborate with other disciplines in improving code design for multiple Data Mining feature areas
• Influence appropriate compromises and dependencies in planning across feature teams
• Establish agreements with other teams that ensure coverage and communication
• Lead and influence data quality work across a team of 200 engineers

• BS or equivalent in a technical area
• Experience shipping at least two large commercial software product (ideally at Microsoft)
• 6+ years programming experience (C#, C/C++, SQL)
• Experience or interest in data analysis and business intelligence
• Proactive, self-motivated and self-starter
• Strong communication skills, and ability to work with other functional roles

Contact: eugenial [at] microsoft.com, or Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18213xManager, Analytics and Decision SupportWoodland HillsCAIntuithttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18213x.shtml?source=latproAre you looking to work in a quickly growing business unit?
Are you looking to expand your career and challenge your development?
Are you results oriented and like to continuously improve? Do you have strong process and analytical skills?
Are you a people person who also likes working cross-functionally and coaching and developing others?

If you answered YES to several of the above, then this role could be for you!

Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, but that’s just the start. We also help small and medium sized businesses get paid (Intuit Payment Solutions), pay their employees (Intuit Payroll Division) or build websites (Intuit Homestead). We are currently going through a fundamental transformation from a shrink-wrapped software company to one of the country's leading providers of web-based applications and solutions for small to medium sized businesses.

Come join Intuit’s Payment Solutions Division as Manager, Analytics and Decision Support. We are looking for creative problem solvers with a passion for innovation to join our team and revolutionize the way the world does business.

The primary reason businesses and merchants sign up to use our card and check processing service is to (a) get paid fast and (b) lower their cost of payment acceptance. The biggest element in a merchant’s total cost of payment acceptance is the number of “bad payments” they accept, be it bad checks or fraudulent cards, and the number of those “bad payments” that do not get collected. This position will report to the head of the Risk function and the primary role of the Manager is to lead the Business and Data Analysts by developing and maintaining cutting edge loss prevention products and techniques in the markets we serve.

Skills:

• Leadership Skills: Manage a team by motivating, guiding, supporting, providing thought and analytical leadership and driving execution of key projects.
• Project Management Skills: Work to identify, validate and test external data sources. Determine and craft project and business requirements as well work with internal partners, including information technology, product and operations to successfully deliver enhancements.
• Financial Acumen: Has ability to quickly grasp the revenue and profit drivers to any business. Responsible for loss forecasting, reserve setting and financial planning of credit losses.
• Predictive Model Building and Analytic Skills: Has passion in analyzing data, drawing appropriate conclusions, able to effectively summarize and communicate findings and create strategies to translate statistical findings to business strategies that positively impact the business and customer.
• Critical Thinking: Convert analytical insights into strategies that drive reductions in bad check rate for our customers
• Reporting & Performance Tracking: Creating daily, weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports for customers as well as management
• Communication and Presentation Skills: Demonstrated persuasive written and verbal communication skills with ability to establish logical flow and story to present complex information in an easy to understand way.
• Interpersonal Skills / Team Work: Ability to work well with others, not just at a social level, but by building bridges and sometimes confronting tough issues that need to be resolved for the best of the business.
• Personality Traits: High degree of Initiative, Integrity, Outspoken, Servant Leadership type management style, Driven (while being a team player) & Strong Attention to Detail

• Advanced degree in quantitative field such as Statistics, Math, Economics or an MBA
• 5+ Years Work Experience in Payments or Financial Services
• Experience managing people and leading teams in similar environments
• Experience with building predictive models, ETL Processes & Data Analytics
• Advanced SQL, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word and MS Power Point Skills

www.intuitcareers.com - Requisition # 66339.
Apply Online

Be innovative… Be yourself... Be Intuit …

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18214xData Mining AnalystTorontoCanadaWaterfront Internationalhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18214x.shtml?source=latproWaterfront International is a Toronto-based financial consulting firm, specializing in developing computer based statistical trading strategies. Waterfront’s selective hiring process considers only highly talented individuals with a history of exceptional professional and academic achievement, and solid real-world experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform financial market data research and analysis to identify and resolve data issues using advanced data mining techniques.
• Develop proprietary data mining tools and applications.
• Develop predictive models.

• PhD or Masters in mathematics, statistics or computer science specializing in data mining.
• Experience with machine learning and knowledge discovery techniques.
• Solid quantitative background with excellent analytical skills.
• Strong working knowledge of data mining and statistics.
• Must possess expert level C/C++ programming skills.
• Some financial experience desired but not required.
• Must be a strong self-starter and able to work well independently.

Email: recruiting@wil.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182016xData ManagerCincinnatiOHCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centerhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182016x.shtml?source=latpro At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, our vision is to be the leader in improving child health. We are dedicated to transforming the way health care is delivered and to implementing quality improvements to advance patient safety, outcomes and experiences. U.S.News & World Report ranked the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center the third best pediatric program at a medical school in the United States, behind only Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. Cincinnati Children's received 122 NIH grants in 2008 -- 21 more than in 2007 -- the most awarded to us in eight years. We are currently looking for the following:

Data Manager

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

To manage data processes and to develop, implement and maintain a data quality assurance program for research studies.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with researchers and research coordinators to ascertain data needs for research studies.
• Act as a liaison between research team, IT professionals, and analysts to create analysis data sets for research purposes.
• Design and test data collection tools.
• Build and maintain data dictionaries for division and study databases.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive data quality program for research studies.
• Ensure global clinical data management best practices and knowledge thereof in a standardized, transparent, and efficient manner. Assume responsibility as a partner for the planning, resourcing, and execution of relevant internal and external data management activities to obtain clean databases within a specified timeframe.
• Maintain data quality for research studies.
• Oversee the accuracy of data entry functions.
• Design and build eCRFs and edit checks, oversee validation process.
• Coordinate data transfers, data reconciliation.
• Develop knowledge and professional skills through continuing education, cross training, literature and attendance at departmental meetings.

Ability to organize and define problems, develop strategies, solutions and recommend action plans for research data management. Analytical and statistical ability sufficient to evaluate data, make judgments and recommendations regarding data management and quality. Experience performing basic statistical analysis including frequency distributions, graphical displays and descriptive statistics. Demonstrates analytical skills as well as accuracy and attention to detail. Possesses strong computer and word processing, spreadsheet statistical, and database software application skills (Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, Business Objects, Access, SAS or SPSS). Have a working knowledge of tools to build simple databases and electronic data collection tools. Be able to develop ad hoc queries for simple data retrieval skills.

EDUCATION/WORK EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Bachelor degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, management information systems, quantitative analysis or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 1 year experience developing and manipulating small to medium databases, using Visual Basic, SAS and/or SPSS and cleaning and managing data for multiple projects.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182018Senior Level SW Quality Metrics EngagementSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182018S.shtml?source=latproExpected Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities

M Squared will provide thought leadership working with an established software quality data team and will leverage a strong engineering and/or mathematics background and passion for collecting and analyzing SW quality and process metrics.

Primary responsibilities in this engagement will include:

• Analysis of voluminous data from numerous sources (defects per hour, reliability curves, bugs, overall test health, customer-found defect percentages, etc.)
• Develop predictive indicators on how current quality statistics will translate into field/customer performance
• Documented assessment of “as is” status and/or hypothesis on what is happening
• Formulation of “to be” state and recommendations on what should be done next
• SW quality modeling based on in-depth knowledge of in SW development process and of metrics used to assess code quality
• Development of solution(s) that bring fresh thinking to our client’s team

• Documentation of “As Is” and “To Be” assessments
• SW quality modeling
• Solutions recommendations

M Squared will achieve success in this engagement by providing fresh thinking on software quality data, metrics and processes to optimize SW Quality.

Industry Experience

• High Tech industry experience with SW quality leaders; non-client specific
• Significant experience in the software development arena coupled with engineering, mathematics or statistics educational background

• Exceptional knowledge of statistics and statisticals methodologies
• Highly skilled in Excel (including macro creation and Visual Basic)
• Demonstrated experience with bug query tools
• General knowledge of using web tools and posting data to web-sites (web-site creation and modification is a plus)

• Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists
• Demonstrated proactive team member
• Deals well with change of direction and focus
• Commits to deliverables and is timely in their delivery
• Quick study with high energy and stamina...it's the culture

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs182018S.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182019xDirector, Traffic AnalysisSan FranciscoCALooksmarthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182019x.shtml?source=latproWe are currently seeking a Director of Traffic Analysis to join the LookSmart Team.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing ad network traffic performance to optimally match traffic supply to advertiser demand
• Developing tools and infrastructure to enable account managers to manage traffic sources for their accounts
• Providing second level support for Account Managers
• Doing deep analysis/data mining of ad network traffic patterns. Developing and maintaining formulas and algorithms to enable sustainable growth of partner business and direct business.
• Building Traffic Analysis function as a core competency and competitive advantage
• Managing and mentoring a small team of analysts

• 3 years experience leading traffic analysis function for a major ad network
• 5 years experience in applied data analysis
• Strong domain expertise in on-line search advertising
• BA in computer science, statistical analysis or related field required, MS or PhD desirable.
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented work

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs182019x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182018xSenior Level SW Quality Metrics EngagementSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182018x.shtml?source=latproExpected Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities

M Squared will provide thought leadership working with an established software quality data team and will leverage a strong engineering and/or mathematics background and passion for collecting and analyzing SW quality and process metrics.

Primary responsibilities in this engagement will include:

• Analysis of voluminous data from numerous sources (defects per hour, reliability curves, bugs, overall test health, customer-found defect percentages, etc.)
• Develop predictive indicators on how current quality statistics will translate into field/customer performance
• Documented assessment of “as is” status and/or hypothesis on what is happening
• Formulation of “to be” state and recommendations on what should be done next
• SW quality modeling based on in-depth knowledge of in SW development process and of metrics used to assess code quality
• Development of solution(s) that bring fresh thinking to our client’s team

• Documentation of “As Is” and “To Be” assessments
• SW quality modeling
• Solutions recommendations

M Squared will achieve success in this engagement by providing fresh thinking on software quality data, metrics and processes to optimize SW Quality.

Industry Experience

• High Tech industry experience with SW quality leaders; non-client specific
• Significant experience in the software development arena coupled with engineering, mathematics or statistics educational background

• Exceptional knowledge of statistics and statisticals methodologies
• Highly skilled in Excel (including macro creation and Visual Basic)
• Demonstrated experience with bug query tools
• General knowledge of using web tools and posting data to web-sites (web-site creation and modification is a plus)

• Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists
• Demonstrated proactive team member
• Deals well with change of direction and focus
• Commits to deliverables and is timely in their delivery
• Quick study with high energy and stamina...it's the culture

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs182018x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 182019xDirector, Traffic AnalysisSan FranciscoCALooksmarthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs182019x.shtml?source=latproWe are currently seeking a Director of Traffic Analysis to join the LookSmart Team.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing ad network traffic performance to optimally match traffic supply to advertiser demand
• Developing tools and infrastructure to enable account managers to manage traffic sources for their accounts
• Providing second level support for Account Managers
• Doing deep analysis/data mining of ad network traffic patterns. Developing and maintaining formulas and algorithms to enable sustainable growth of partner business and direct business.
• Building Traffic Analysis function as a core competency and competitive advantage
• Managing and mentoring a small team of analysts

• 3 years experience leading traffic analysis function for a major ad network
• 5 years experience in applied data analysis
• Strong domain expertise in on-line search advertising
• BA in computer science, statistical analysis or related field required, MS or PhD desirable.
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented work

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs182019x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18218xSenior Level SW Quality Metrics EngagementSan JoseCAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18218x.shtml?source=latproExpected Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities

M Squared will provide thought leadership working with an established software quality data team and will leverage a strong engineering and/or mathematics background and passion for collecting and analyzing SW quality and process metrics.

Primary responsibilities in this engagement will include:

• Analysis of voluminous data from numerous sources (defects per hour, reliability curves, bugs, overall test health, customer-found defect percentages, etc.)
• Develop predictive indicators on how current quality statistics will translate into field/customer performance
• Documented assessment of “as is” status and/or hypothesis on what is happening
• Formulation of “to be” state and recommendations on what should be done next
• SW quality modeling based on in-depth knowledge of in SW development process and of metrics used to assess code quality
• Development of solution(s) that bring fresh thinking to our client’s team

• Documentation of “As Is” and “To Be” assessments
• SW quality modeling
• Solutions recommendations

M Squared will achieve success in this engagement by providing fresh thinking on software quality data, metrics and processes to optimize SW Quality.

Industry Experience

• High Tech industry experience with SW quality leaders; non-client specific
• Significant experience in the software development arena coupled with engineering, mathematics or statistics educational background

• Exceptional knowledge of statistics and statisticals methodologies
• Highly skilled in Excel (including macro creation and Visual Basic)
• Demonstrated experience with bug query tools
• General knowledge of using web tools and posting data to web-sites (web-site creation and modification is a plus)

• Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists
• Demonstrated proactive team member
• Deals well with change of direction and focus
• Commits to deliverables and is timely in their delivery
• Quick study with high energy and stamina...it's the culture

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18218x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18219xDirector, Traffic AnalysisSan FranciscoCALooksmarthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18219x.shtml?source=latproWe are currently seeking a Director of Traffic Analysis to join the LookSmart Team.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing ad network traffic performance to optimally match traffic supply to advertiser demand
• Developing tools and infrastructure to enable account managers to manage traffic sources for their accounts
• Providing second level support for Account Managers
• Doing deep analysis/data mining of ad network traffic patterns. Developing and maintaining formulas and algorithms to enable sustainable growth of partner business and direct business.
• Building Traffic Analysis function as a core competency and competitive advantage
• Managing and mentoring a small team of analysts

• 3 years experience leading traffic analysis function for a major ad network
• 5 years experience in applied data analysis
• Strong domain expertise in on-line search advertising
• BA in computer science, statistical analysis or related field required, MS or PhD desirable.
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented work

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18219x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18221xCustomer Intelligence LeadChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18221x.shtml?source=latproThe Draftfcb Customer Intelligence Lead

The ideal candidate is a self-directed, creative leader with good communication skills who understands how to use data to build a cohesive story about the business, provide insights to influence and guide thinking and make recommendations to cross-functional agency team.

High level scope of work responsibilities:

• Develop best-in-class marketing strategies with cross-functional agency team
• Understands that they contribute more than data analyses; they share a responsibility with other agency leads to address broader client business challenges
• Recommend analytic projects/analyses to cross-functional agency team based on client business challenges, objectives, goals.
• Work with CI Modelers and analysts to design/develop compelling/relevant analyses.
• Make actionable recommendations to client based on analytic findings
• Prepare high-quality, visually compelling, client-ready documents/findings/recommendations

• Understanding of predictive modeling, customer segmentation, forecasting, and media/channel optimization and how they relate to marketing strategy
• MS Office, including advanced Excel skills required.
• Experience with SPSS, SAS or SQL a plus
• Experience with GIS mapping applications and database development a plus

• Strong leadership
• Creativity around and enthusiasm for data & research and its strategic application
• Self-directed; ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment.
• Good communicator with strong presentation skills
• Marketing background highly desirable

• Min 10 years work experience in marketing analytics or related field such as advertising, retail marketing, product marketing, direct marketing, digital marketing, loyalty marketing, etc.
• Senior-level leadership position
• BA/BS in marketing / advertising / communications / social sciences required; MBA or related degree preferred.
• Experience with syndicated data sources such as Nielsen (sales); MRI/Simmons (marketing media research)

Draftfcb focuses on coming up with ideas first without the distinction between disciplines and job titles, resulting in the highest Return on Ideas for clients. With more than 130 years of expertise and offices in 110 countries, Draftfcb offers the challenge of working on global accounts and the reward of being a part of a successful, progressive agency.

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses.

It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

To apply: e-mail your resume with cover letter to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18221x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18222xCustomer Digital Intelligence DirectorChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18222x.shtml?source=latproThe Draftfcb Customer Digital Intelligence Director

The leader of Draftfcb's Digital Intelligence practice will be responsible for developing the agency's expertise, leadership and client deliverables in customer intelligence across all digital channels, and for integrating them into Draftfcb's broader positioning as the leading global integrated marketing services agency.

High level scope of work responsibilities:

• Draftfcb currently has a broad set of capabilities in web analytics, search analysis, and social media analysis, and we are the industry leader in integrating broader customer intelligence into client strategies and advertising.
• The leader of our Digital Intelligence practice will report into the Director of Customer Intelligence, and will transform the digital analytics capabilities into a core feature of our broader customer intelligence, insights, and strategy offering, and a core part of the agency's client delivery process:
  • Using digital intelligence to measure customer-brand relationship for specific brands and customer groups.
  Understanding the role of the digital space and digital marketing channels in developing the customer-brand relationship, and identifying client opportunities in that area.
• This person will also serve as a senior leader of the broader Customer Intelligence group, and will be responsible for integrating digital intelligence with other CI capabilities.

• A hybrid left-brain, right-brain thinker, with experience in data analytics or research, but also able to think strategically and conceptually
• Ability to create and communicate a digital intelligence vision, but also able to manage client deliverables and IP development
• Excellent 360 manager and collaborator

• Minimum 10 years experience
• Experience as a client-facing, strategic leader in current organization
• Broad experience in the role / use of data in digital channels (most of the following: mobile, digital media, website design & strategy, search, social media, e-mail)
• Some marketing background

Draftfcb focuses on coming up with ideas first without the distinction between disciplines and job titles, resulting in the highest Return on Ideas for clients. With more than 130 years of expertise and offices in 110 countries, Draftfcb offers the challenge of working on global accounts and the reward of being a part of a successful, progressive agency.

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses.

It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

To apply: e-mail your resume with cover letter to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18222x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18223xCustomer Intelligence DirectorChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18223x.shtml?source=latproThe Draftfcb Customer Intelligence Director

The ideal candidate understands a wide array of data analysis techniques. The candidate can interpret data, provide insights and make actionable recommendations.

High level scope of work responsibilities:

• Manage large client engagements, or a series of smaller client engagements, using data analytics and research to measure consumer-brand relationships and marketing opportunities
• Perform analyses, and work with junior analysts to manage other analytics
• Interpret analytics & research to produce concrete strategies, tactics and plans for Draftfcb’s clients
• Collaborate with clients and other Draftfcb disciplines (strategic planning, creative, media) to transform the analytics and strategies into actual client work.

• Understanding of predictive modeling, customer segmentation, forecasting, and media/channel optimization and how they relate to marketing strategy
• MS Office and advanced Excel skills necessary
• Reporting experience with software such as Cognos, MS Access, SQL, etc
• Modeling experience with SPSS, SAS, etc.
• Database experience and mapping software experience a plus

• Strong communication skills
• Creativity around and enthusiasm for data & research and its strategic application
• Experience managing multiple projects and prioritizing deliverables
• Experience supervising junior staff highly desirable
• Marketing background highly desirable

• Advanced degree with heavy quantitative coursework (e.g., statistics, math, operations research)
• Minimum of 8 years experience in marketing analytics or related field such as advertising, retail marketing, product marketing, direct marketing, digital marketing, loyalty marketing, etc.

Draftfcb focuses on coming up with ideas first without the distinction between disciplines and job titles, resulting in the highest Return on Ideas for clients. With more than 130 years of expertise and offices in 110 countries, Draftfcb offers the challenge of working on global accounts and the reward of being a part of a successful, progressive agency.

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses.

It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

To apply: e-mail your resume with cover letter to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18223x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18224xCustomer Intelligence Sr. Analyst / ModelerChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18224x.shtml?source=latproThe Draftfcb Customer Intelligence Sr. Analyst (Modeler)

The ideal candidate understands a wide array of data analysis techniques. S/he can interpret data, provide insights and make actionable recommendations.

High level scope of work responsibilities:

• Design/create analyses in relation to business objectives
• Create/analyze customer profiles for target marketing opportunities
• Work with large datasets--a combination of client specific large datasets and syndicated marketing/media research

• MS Office and advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables required
• Data manipulation experience with SPSS, SAS, etc. desired
• Reporting experience with software such as MS Access, SQL, etc. desired
• Database experience and mapping software experience a plus
• Understanding of predictive modeling, customer segmentation, forecasting, and media/channel optimization and how they relate to marketing strategy

• Well organized and disciplined approach to work. Able to manage aggressive data analysis timelines
• Self-directed. Able to anticipate analysis priorities and keep CI Lead Modeler informed of requirements
• Creativity around and enthusiasm for new approaches to modeling challenges
• Good communicator (ideally w/presentation experience)
• Comfortable assisting non-analyst co-workers to understand the methodology and significance of analysis findings

• Advanced degree with heavy quantitative coursework (e.g., statistics, math, operations research)
• Experience in marketing analytics or related field such as advertising, retail marketing, product marketing, direct marketing, online marketing, loyalty marketing, etc.
• Experience with syndicated data sources such as Nielsen (sales); MRI/Simmons (marketing media research); Millward Brown (brand health) preferred.

Launched in mid-2006, Draftfcb is a new breed of agency—the first global, behavior-based, holistic marketing communications organization operating against a single P&L, one which places an equal emphasis on creativity and accountability. Draftfcb’s global network encompasses 157 offices in 97 countries and includes dual headquarters spanning both Chicago and New York. Draftfcb is a member of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG).

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses. It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

To apply: e-mail your resume with cover letter to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18224x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18225xMarketing Mix ModelerChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18225x.shtml?source=latproThe Draftfcb Marketing Mix Modeler.

At Draftfcb the M3 will lead quantitative modeling in granular marketing return on objectives/investment partnerships and produce actionable marketing mix analysis for our clients. The M3 should be self directed with prior experience in developing models for a variety of products. The position will report in to the Marketing Mix Practice Lead at Draftfcb.

The Position

• As an integral part of the marketing mix team, identify the business objectives and financial specifics for marketing accountability specific to each client project.
• Identify required data sources and level of granularity needed to reach analysis objectives; assess data quality
• Apply deep understanding of mass media planning and buying, retail audits and scanner data, in-store marketing, direct marketing, online media metrics and elements in the marketing mix (including pricing, and distribution) to develop appropriate modeling strategies
• Leads the data setup, analysis designs, data transformations and execution of marketing mix models
• Derive key actionable insights from modeling work and leads management of analyst staff efforts to generate interactive marketing mix optimization tools

• Advanced degree with advanced quantitative coursework (e.g., marketing analytics, model design, statistics, econometrics)
• 8-10 years’ experience in marketing analytics or related field such as advertising, retail marketing, product marketing, direct marketing, online marketing, loyalty marketing, etc.
• 3-5 years’ experience in hands-on marketing mix modeling
• Experience with syndicated data sources such as Nielsen, IRI, and brand health data preferred
• strong quantitative skills and demonstrable experience in statistical/econometric modeling of marketing investment data
• Previous experience developing marketing models for a variety of products (CPGs, durables, etc.) and service providers (financial, insurance, telecom etc.)
• Proficient with assisting non-analyst co-workers to understand the methodology and significance of analysis findings

• Good grasp of time series predictive modeling, forecasting, media/channel optimization and how they relate to marketing strategy
• Proficiency with SPSS/SAS, and advanced analytics required

Draftfcb’s global network encompasses 157 offices in 97 countries and includes dual headquarters spanning both Chicago and New York. Draftfcb is a member of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG).

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses.

It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

To apply: e-mail your resume with cover letter to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18225x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18226xCustomer Intelligence Sr. AnalystChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18226x.shtml?source=latproThe Draftfcb Customer Intelligence Sr. Analyst

The ideal candidate understands marketing and how to relate data insights back to marketing program. S/he has the ability to interpret data, provide insights and make actionable recommendations.

High level scope of work responsibilities:

• Extract and manipulate data into campaign tracking reports
• Analyze reports in relation to business objectives
• Able to learn and master dashboard development applications and wire in analysis findings through this platform

• MS Office and advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables required
• Reporting experience with software such as MS Access, SQL, etc. required
• Data manipulation experience with SPSS, SAS, etc. a plus
• Understanding of customer segmentation, forecasting, and media/channel optimization and how they relate to marketing strategy
• Database experience and mapping software experience preferred desired

• Self-directed. Able to anticipate analysis priorities and keep CI Lead / CI Director informed of requirements
• Creativity around and enthusiasm for data & research and its strategic application
• Good communicator (ideally w/presentation experience)
• Comfortable sharing insights and take-aways in client meetings and senior agency leadership meetings

• At least 5 years work experience in marketing analytics or related field such as advertising, retail marketing, product marketing, direct marketing, digital marketing, loyalty marketing, etc.
• BA/BS in marketing / advertising / communications / social sciences
• Experience with such data sources as Nielsen (sales); MRI/Simmons (marketing media research); Millward Brown (brand health); ComScore (online panel data) preferred.

Draftfcb focuses on coming up with ideas first without the distinction between disciplines and job titles, resulting in the highest Return on Ideas for clients. With more than 130 years of expertise and offices in 110 countries, Draftfcb offers the challenge of working on global accounts and the reward of being a part of a successful, progressive agency.

Draftfcb is committed to diversity of people and thought. We're fostering a culture that is inclusive, promotes mutual respect and maximizes individuals' full potential to ultimately benefit our employees, their families, our clients, vendors and shareholders. We promote acceptance, collaboration, creativity, responsibility and accountability among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We hope to better our agency and our industry by engaging the next generation of talent and welcoming their input and contributions to our company and our clients' businesses.

It is the policy of Draftfcb to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

To apply: e-mail your resume with cover letter to: Annie.Conn [at] draftfcb.com (replace [at] with @)

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18226x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18071xDirector of AnalyticsKansas CityMOAdKnowledgehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18071x.shtml?source=latproPOSITION: Director of Analytics
ORGANIZATION: Adknowledge
LOCATION: Kansas City, MO
DEPARTMENT: Corporate
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Chief Operating Officer

Company Overview:

Adknowledge is a performance-based advertising network that utilizes powerful predictive technology to connect advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including email, search, messaging, domain, and social networks. Over 50,000 advertisers use the Adknowledge ad network to promote their offers.

Adknowledge has developed patent-pending technologies that use predictive analytics to study consumer response patterns and display the most relevant advertisement possible per impression. The technology enables Adknowledge to deliver search-like quality for advertisers through non-search mediums.

Adknowledge has grown rapidly through the acquisition of Cubics, Mediarun, Lookery, Adonomics and MIVA Media, which includes the brand names Findwhat.com and Espotting. Adknowledge has been recognized by Red Herring and also by AlwaysOn Media as a Top 100 Private Companies award winner.

Founded in 2004, Adknowledge is a privately-held company with more than 180 employees throughout the world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Adknowledge has domestic offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and international offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2006, the company received $48 million in funding from Technology Crossover (TCV) whose portfolio includes C|Net, eHarmony, Fandango, Expedia.com, iVillage, and Netflix.

Department/Team Overview

Focus

Adknowledge provides technology and services to publishers that enable them to deliver highly-targeted advertisements to their users. Adknowledge anonymously tracks behaviors on over 400M unique users. The data analytics team is responsible for managing a 10TB+ data warehouse that aggregates behavior data across a number of Adknowledge business units. The team creates statistical models and algorithms to recommend the right category of offer to a consumer at the right time to maximize response and conversion rates. Techniques include collaborative filters, clustering, and other recommendation systems. Data includes behavioral, geographic, demographic and social graph data.

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 where advertisers purchase ads from Adknowledge.
• A proprietary API known as AdStation, which allows publishers to insert targeted advertisements from Adknowledge into their unsold ad inventory.

• 20+ terabytes of data housed in an open source, distributed data warehouse as well as Oracle, MySQL, and Netezza;
• The promise of cloud computing delivered in reality: extensive use of Hadoop on AWS for production analytics.
• 2000+ servers in 6 data centers worldwide;
• 40+ software engineers;
• 4+ billion consumer impressions served daily;
• Linux technology stack, heavy in Java and LAMP;

Adknowlege’s Director of Analytics will be responsible for improving revenue by managing a team to apply statistical techniques to very large consumer data sets.

1. Team Development: Manage a team of approximately 5 statisticians and 3 engineers including attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining highly talented individuals.
2. Analytics: Gather business requirements from key stakeholders and turn them into actionable analytics projects. Prioritize, set deadlines and mentor a team of statisticians. Create predictive consumer models, analyze traffic patterns and quality and model a large advertiser marketplace.
3. Data Management and Warehousing: Work with very large data sets (10TB+) and architect a distributed data management architecture that can scale to handle rapid growth.
4. Engineering: Manage a team of engineers focused on turning statistical models into production ready deployments. Make key technology decisions and manage vendor relationships. Utilize cloud computing (e.g. AWS) and open source platforms (e.g. Hive, CloudBase) to achieve scalability and efficiency.
5. Project Management: Institute lightweight processes to manage projects and provide visibility to upper management on project status and prioritization.
   

• Articulate strategic technical objectives (quarterly, annual, long-term), and lead the group to achieve them.
• Interact with internal and external customers to ensure continuous customer satisfaction, modifying plans and processes when necessary to maintain reliability and performance.
• All other duties as assigned

The successful candidate will be an analytical, thoughtful and business-minded leader with at least:

• 3+ years of fundamental people management (hiring, coaching, firing).
• 3+ years of experience involved in revenue impacting analysis of very large data sets including data mining, statistical tests and/or simulations.
• Proven experience translating requirements into solutions.
• Strong familiarity with Linux/UNIX, SQL and R.
• Background in software engineering strongly preferred with experience developing in Java.
• Degree in computer science, mathematics or related field.

• Communication Skills: Be comfortable interfacing with senior management, understanding complex business requirements and presenting the pros and cons of various technologies and statistical techniques to nontechnical managers.
• Leader/Builder/Recruiter: Able to attract, motivate and build a disciplined and goal-focused team.
• Resourceful: figure-it-out-and-get-it-done mentality.
• Analytical: An intelligent decision maker.
• Fast Paced: Enjoy rapid change within a small, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture
• Strategic Skills: Have a superior business intellect and understand what to pursue and what to defer within an opportunity-rich environment.

Compensation: Competitive six-figure base salary and equity participation.

Apply Online

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18071x.shtml
Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18072xStatisticianKansas CityMOAdKnowledgehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18072x.shtml?source=latproPOSITION: SR Statistician
ORGANIZATION: Adknowledge
LOCATION: Kansas City, MO
DEPARTMENT: Analytics
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Director of Analytics

Company Overview:

Adknowledge is a performance-based advertising network that utilizes powerful predictive technology to connect advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including email, search, messaging, domain, and social networks. Over 50,000 advertisers use the Adknowledge ad network to promote their offers.

Adknowledge has developed patent-pending technologies that use predictive analytics to study consumer response patterns and display the most relevant advertisement possible per impression. The technology enables Adknowledge to deliver search-like quality for advertisers through non-search mediums.

Adknowledge has grown rapidly through the acquisition of Cubics, Mediarun, Lookery, Adonomics and MIVA Media, which includes the brand names Findwhat.com and Espotting. Adknowledge has been recognized by Red Herring and also by AlwaysOn Media as a Top 100 Private Companies award winner.

Founded in 2004, Adknowledge is a privately-held company with more than 180 employees throughout the world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Adknowledge has domestic offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and international offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2006, the company received $48 million in funding from Technology Crossover (TCV) whose portfolio includes C|Net, eHarmony, Fandango, Expedia.com, iVillage, and Netflix.

Department/Team Overview

Focus

Adknowledge provides technology and services to publishers that enable them to deliver highly-targeted advertisements to their users. Adknowledge anonymously tracks behaviors on over 400M unique users. The data analytics team is responsible for managing a 10TB+ data warehouse that aggregates behavior data across a number of Adknowledge business units. The team creates statistical models and algorithms to recommend the right category of offer to a consumer at the right time to maximize response and conversion rates. Techniques include collaborative filters, clustering, and other recommendation systems. Data includes behavioral, geographic, demographic and social graph data.

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 where advertisers purchase ads from Adknowledge.
• A proprietary API known as AdStation, which allows publishers to insert targeted advertisements from Adknowledge into their unsold ad inventory.

• 20+ terabytes of data housed in an open source, distributed data warehouse as well as Oracle, MySQL, and Netezza;
• The promise of cloud computing delivered in reality: extensive use of Hadoop on AWS for production analytics.
• 500+ Linux servers;
• LAMP based platform mixed with some C, C++, and Oracle
• A cloud running Hadoop, DHT, and other distributed services.

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.

Position Overview:

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Troubleshoot: Analyze and troubleshoot our proprietary targeting system to ensure optimal revenue is attained.
   

Candidate Overview:

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

• 2+ years in data mining, statistical analysis
• Expertise in statistical software (R, S-Plus, SAS or similar)
• Prior experience in on line advertising preferred
• Experience working with datasets containing at least millions of records.
• Non-academic SQL development with any DBMS, Oracle preferred

• Passion for Technology: Excitement for new technology, bleeding edge applications, and a positive attitude towards solving real world challenges.
• Team Player: Work in a highly collaborative environment. This includes evaluating concepts, debating ideas, and helping others move projects forward.
• Detail oriented: accuracy and attention to detail is very important in this position.
• Analytical: Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to research and analyze data from a variety of sources.
• Pragmatic: The ability to translate theoretical results into business applications. This includes identifying and understanding the business need, formulating and evaluating possible solutions, completing the exploratory and predictive phases of analysis, and moving the recommended solution into production.

PhD in Mathematics, Statistics or Econometrics or any other mathematical field. Equivalent work experience along with a MS is also acceptable.

Compensation: Based on Experience

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18076xSenior Statistical Modeler / Marketing ScientistCincinnatiOHThinkVinehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18076x.shtml?source=latpro

ThinkVine, a privately-held, venture-backed, marketing science solutions company is accepting resumes for a Senior Statistical Modeler / Marketing Scientist in our Cincinnati office. This position will support a wide variety of analytic initiatives in ThinkVine's consulting group. These include segmentation, consumer behavior analysis, sales forecasting, response prediction, advertising effectiveness, market mix modeling and ROI measurement. The candidate may be involved at all levels of a project, such as research design, data manipulation, analysis, reporting and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Designs, plans, executes and interprets quantitative analysis of customer data.
• Assists with data cleaning, recoding and variable transformations for analysis.
• Performs data diagnostics and other quality control checks to ensure accuracy of work.
• Writes and presents clear, effective, actionable findings based on analyses.
• Illustrates data graphically and translates complex findings into clear, concise visuals.
• Distills insights from the analysis to offer business recommendations by identifying meaningful consumer indicators and trends.

• Expert knowledge of SPSS or other statistical package (e.g. SAS, STATA).
• Practical experience conducting statistical techniques such as regression analysis, factor analysis, and clustering.
• An understanding of the underlying models, when to apply them, how to conduct the analysis and interpret the insights derived from the results.
• Ability to write clear and insightful reports in PowerPoint.
• Experience working with various types of data, including data sourced from consumer surveys, as well as from large (and often messy) customer databases. Ability to extract, clean and format data for analysis.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, but also able to solve problems independently.
• Graduate degree preferred in an analytic field such as statistics, economics, mathematics, psychology, sociology or business.
• At least three years of experience in market research, database analysis or other areas that emphasizes the analysis and reporting of business data.

• Econometric and other quantitative skills are a plus, such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, Bayesian estimation, mathematical optimizations and simulation techniques.
• Ability to develop experimental designs and conduct analysis for conjoint/choice modeling.
• Ability to program in Excel using VBA.
• Experience with Business Intelligence and Data Mining Applications.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18077xManagerJercey CityNJISO Innovative Analyticshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18077x.shtml?source=latproDirector (or Manager) of Analytic Applications and Research

Company Overview:

ISO Innovative Analytics (iiA), a unit of ISO, is an insurance solutions company specializing in applying advanced analytic techniques and data management skills to the challenge of accurately assessing risk in the property and casualty insurance industry. Our clients include many of the nation's leading property and casualty insurers. We combine vast data resources with leading edge predictive modeling techniques to create the most accurate risk models in the industry. Our clients use these models to give them a competitive advantage in executing their marketing, underwriting and pricing strategies. Our market position allows us to dedicate unparalleled time and talent to solving the industry's analytic challenges. iiA is an equal opportunity employer.

Responsibilities:

The Analytic Applications and Research area of ISO Innovative Analytics serves a critical function by connecting Analytical R&D efforts with key Customer groups. It provides the crucial “translation” function, allowing R&D activities to progress unencumbered, while enabling their success by positioning them with key stakeholder groups including – Regulators, potential Customers, and Development partners. In addition, this area utilizes feedback from these stakeholders to develop prototypes of new analytical efforts.

In addition to familiarity with analytical techniques and predictive modeling, the successful candidate must be an accomplished communicator, with demonstrated experience in dealing with internal and external stakeholders. The position requires communication with customer/regulators and includes some amount of travel (20-50%).

The Director (or Manager) of the Analytic Applications and Research function will take a leadership role and will work closely with the Executive team to set direction, role, and activities for Analytic Applications and Research function. Broad responsibilities of the function include –

• Leading proof-of-concept studies to demonstrate value of new analytical efforts
  • Collaborating with other iiA researchers, including academic research partners, to develop prototype initiatives
  • Communicating results of these studies to executive leadership team and other stakeholders

• Supporting the Productization of Analytical Tools
  • Performing state-specific model adjustments, smoothing, geo-spatial analyses, sub-group testing, etc.
  • Supporting the Filing team with analysis, reason-code explanations, and on-the-ground support such as DOI visits (if needed)
  • Working with R&D and Product Management to determine specs for model implementation in production

• Developing analyses to support Marketing/Sales activities
  • Establishing novel ways of assessing the business impact/value of model lift
  • Performing comparative studies (e.g., ISO models vs Credit, etc.) to help position ISO solutions
  • Writing white-papers and helping develop Sales/Marketing collateral

• Customizing industry models for Development partners
  • Performing GLM and other modeling (as appropriate) to build custom models for development partners (leveraging Industry models developed by the R&D teams)
  • Presenting model results to Development partners, including lift-analyses

• Providing technical support for Sales activities
  • Setting-up processes for analyzing and demonstrating “lift” for Pilot testers
  • Working with Pilot testing carriers to in-source data, perform lift analysis, and communicate results
  • Providing technical expertise on Sales calls with potential customers

• Advanced quantitative degree (Masters or PhD) with experience building and/or managing predictive modeling initiatives is required
• 8+ years of experience in Analytics is required, with 3+ years of experience in P&C insurance (preferably in Actuarial functions).
• Demonstrated P&C domain knowledge through qualifications such as FCAS/ACAS or CPCU is a plus.
• Experience with filing rating plans or working with Departments of Insurance is a big plus.
• Project and team leadership experience is required. Experience working with customers is a big plus.
• Knowledge and experience with diverse statistical and data mining methods (e.g., GLM/Regression, Trees, Neural nets, SVMs, etc.) is desirable.
• Ability to lead initiatives, plan activities and resources, work hands-on, manage/develop staff, and mentor junior members, is required
• Must be self-motivated and passionate about creating analytical solutions for diverse and challenging problems.
• Team-player, with strong communication, motivational, and mentoring skills.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18078xDirector of AnalyticsWestchesterNYAllianthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18078x.shtml?source=latproDirector of Analytics

Alliant is looking for a Director of Analytics to work in our northern Westchester, New York office. This is a key position, responsible for providing technical leadership and managing the work processes and output of our team of analysts and statisticians. He/she will work actively with the account management and sales teams to set analytic objectives. The ideal candidate will have a wide-range of experience building regression models and presenting the results to marketing teams, senior management and clients. Additionally, candidates should have the ability to develop new methodologies building on existing intellectual capital.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong quantitative/analytical skills and extensive attention to detail
• High energy level; flexible, adaptive, inquisitive and keen understanding of technology
• Experience managing a team of highly skilled statisticians and programmers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with large-scale databases, PC software and database manipulation

• Graduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or related field
• 8+ years experience in statistical analysis, segmentation, predictive modeling, consulting and project management
• 5+ years Direct Marketing Industry experience
• Extensive experience programming in SAS
• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL a plus
• Experience in defining/designing/building/managing a data warehouse is a plus
• Working knowledge of Web Analytics and/or Consumer Risk Management practices a plus

About Alliant:

Alliant delivers consumer segmentation solutions that help marketers identify their top prospects and customers, creating higher levels of profit in direct and interactive marketing campaigns. Alliant’s proprietary Cooperative Performance databases are built from historical transaction-level customer records contributed by many of the world’s leading direct response marketers, powering marketing decisions with a rich, detailed source of consumer behavioral information. Alliant’s data-driven analytic solutions deliver increases in response and average order size, minimize payment risk, enable mining of new acquisition sources, and increase the success of customer retention and reactivation efforts for direct and interactive marketers. Based in Brewster, NY, Alliant is a Landmark Interactive company. Our web site is at www.alliantdata.com.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18079xStatisticianWestchesterNYAllianthttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18079x.shtml?source=latproStatistician

Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions is looking for a statistician to work in our northern Westchester, New York office. This position will be mostly responsible for building predictive models and performing customer segmentation. The ideal candidate will have a wide-range of experience building regression models and presenting the results to senior management. Additionally, candidates should be familiar with large-scale databases, PC software, and database manipulation.

We are looking for candidates with:

• 2 - 5 years experience building predictive models
• Extensive experience programming in SAS and advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
• Strong quantitative/analytical skills and extensive attention to detail
• High energy level; flexible, adaptive, inquisitive and keen understanding of technology
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Graduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or related field
• Direct Marketing Industry experience a plus
• Knowledge of Oracle and SQL a plus
• Local candidates preferred

Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions is a Consumer Reporting Agency serving clients in the Direct Marketing industry. Alliant maintains a proprietary database of contributed consumer purchasing behavior which is used to predict the response and payment performance of marketing lists. Our team is a blend of experienced professionals with a wealth of Direct Marketing experience in marketing, analytics, list sales, risk consulting, product development and advertising. This is a great opportunity to join a growing company with vast opportunities and a strong corporate culture.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. Compensation will be based on salary and performance-based bonus. US citizens or permanent residents only please. Please send resume with salary requirements, include job name in subject line of email and address to: careers@alliantdata.com

Keywords:

SAS, SQL, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, risk management, direct marketing, Unix, logistic regression, statistician

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18081xDirector, Data Strategy & AnalyticsNew YorkNYhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18081x.shtml?source=latproAre you ready to join a high energy and fun new company in NYC working with a dedicated and talented team? We are looking for a true high level mathematics and statistics guru who is interested in becoming a thought leader and change agent in the $70B TV advertising marketplace. This hands-on manager must have experience in advising C-Level key business decisions using complex models they personally developed.

Only true statisticians need apply.

Key Skills:

• Thought Leadership. Design and construct analytical models.
• Expert knowledge of complex analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis.
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts.

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. This fast-paced start up is pioneering the development of predictive technology using a variety of data sources to help television companies deliver the right on-air promotions to the right viewers at the right time.

The Director, Data Strategy & Analytics (DS&A) drives Simulmedia’s data strategy. We need someone who is a leader of people and ideas. The candidate will conceive and implement the statistical and analytical methods necessary to understand television consumption habits of viewers and their responses to on-air promotion. The Director, DS&A will work closely with senior leadership, product and technology teams to refine and take to market Simulmedia’s offering.

The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, creative, and with a voracious, wide-ranging curiosity. She/he should have a strong applied math or computer science background and should have 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets.

The Director DSA’s responsibilities include:

• Developing, validating and maintaining audience data models and clustering/segmentation algorithms
• Designing requirements for structures to host data and support analytical applications required for the services
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts
• Identifying new sources of data to improve and enrich services
• Conceiving and implementing the analytical applications useful to media and marketing partners and conveying audience insights

• Expert knowledge of analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
• Power user of canned statistical analysis software (e.g. SAS, SPSS or Oracle data mining tools)
• 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets
• Strong data modeling and querying capability
• Master’s level degree (or equivalent expertise/knowledge) in quantitative or analytical discipline such as Statistics, Decision Sciences, Operations Research or Econometrics.
• 3-5 years experience developing analytical models in marketing, finance, advertising or economics.
• 2+ years leading a team of analysts
• Working knowledge of one or more software development languages expected (Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Perl)
• Marketing intuition and familiarity with the attention economy a plus

Please include Job number - Job 205

We offer competitive salary, benefits, vacation, stock options and a stake in our company’s success. For consideration please send your resume with a cover letter and salary history to Job 205, Director, DSA careers@simulmedia.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No search firms or phone calls please.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18082xSoftware Engineer Computational LinguisticsBostonMAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18082x.shtml?source=latproWe are a data driven start-up looking for a CTO to build a social media analytics application using Natural Language Processing with experience in web-scraping and text mining. Candidate will develop methodologies to find sentiment (sentiment in context, polarity, intensity, relationships between issues and reasons for issues), tuning for less formal content (tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech (POS) tagging, parsing, etc.) and finding embedded meaning and intelligence in less grammatical text. Experience in predictive modeling in data mining a plus.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years experience in a relevant field such as software engineering, machine learning programming, et al.
• The drive to work in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary start-up environment.
• A strong interest in online social networks and network/user dynamics.
• PhD in a computational linguistics or artificial intelligence is required.
• Experience with Python/MySQL/R and SaaS is preferred but not required.
• Excellent documentation skills & whitepaper authoring.
• Patent filing experience preferred.
• Experience in database design and search algorithms.

Currently seeking office space so ability to work remotely is a must.

Learn more: http://www.socialtality.com

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18083xSr. Consultant with Current, Active TS/SCI US Government ClearanceArlingtonVAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18083x.shtml?source=latproOpportunity for Sr. Consultant with Current, Active TS/SCI US Government Clearance – Individuals without TS/SCI or higher clearance level will not be considered

Location: Arlington, VA

Salary: $120K - $140K based on experience; Additional quarterly-bonus potential, based on overall company performance, exists.

For consideration, send resumes in Word to elena@williamstison.com.

Elena Howard, Principal at Williams Tison, LLC (www.williamstison.com) is conducting this search on behalf of client and may be reached for follow up at 703-830-7251.

As a Senior Consultant within the Global Services & Solutions team of a major Predictive Analytics firm, your primary responsibility will be to assist customers to achieve successful implementations of our Predictive Analytics Solution. The Senior Consultant will be proficient in delivering consulting services in more than one product line. This individual will help build ROI and identify cross-sell / up-sell opportunities for the product lines. The Senior Consultant has domain understanding and is able to work with current technical approaches as well as various solutions of company products and applications within the domain. This individual will also work with senior level consultants to develop consistent collateral and messaging.

The position requires a background in analytical software with a track record of successful implementations and a strong commercial acumen. In addition, the ability to define Solutions and ensure their successful implementation is required.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality consulting services in more than one product line
• Have domain understanding and solve typical domain issues. Work with various solutions of (COMPANY) products and applications within that domain.
• Help build ROI and identify cross-sell / up-sell opportunities
• Work with more senior level consultants to develop consistent collateral and messaging
• Assist Project Managers in the determination of customer needs
• Assist in the development of the Project Plan and Statement of Work, as and when required
• Assist in the investigation of feasibility of given consulting opportunities
• Understand customer business problems and (COMPANY) capabilities in order to recommend additional (COMPANY) products or applications
• Assist and guide external consultants with the completion of consulting projects
• Help train and mentor more junior consultants
• Keep up-to-date with competitor information and how this relates to our capabilities
• Produce Project Summaries for large-scale projects – defining business, business problem, (COMPANY) approach to solving problem, ROI
• Work with Professional Services Director and Sales to develop demonstrations/marketing collateral
• Maintain currency with (COMPANY) Inc. product focus areas
• Assist Sales in closing solution sales through either phone conferences or on-site visits
• Regularly update Project Managers of project status
• Attend external training courses related to fulfilling (COMPANY) consulting projects
• When required, travel to customer site to evaluate opportunity or to perform fulfillment of work
• Attend consulting meetings, when required
• Update (COMPANY) time tracking systems on a weekly basis
• Ensure personal utilization targets are met
• Use proactive measures to support sales process and generate additional revenue

• TS SCI active US government clearance or higher
• A bachelor’s degree in Applied Statistics, Data Mining or that containing a strong quantitative component, or equivalent work experience
• 4-7 years working in a similar role and customer facing environment with a software or consulting services provider
• Experience with projects that involve integrating multiple technologies and datasets to solve a business problem.
• Experience using at least 1 of the following
  • A BI Reporting tool
  • A multidimensional database product
  • A statistical modeling tool
  • A data mining tool
  • A market research tool
• Skills associated with any of the following product lines or Applications, namely:
  • Predictive Applications
  • SPSS Base
  • Clementine
  • Dimensions
  • ShowCase Suite
  Predictive Enterprise Services

• Good problem solver with strong business acumen
• Very strong customer service orientation
• Excellent communicator, including cross-cultural
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Good presentation, organizational, and planning skills
• Understanding of real-time operating systems an advantage
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to absorb new ideas and concepts quickly
• Experience leading in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Able to work with minimum supervision
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Drive – looking for evidence of ability to see projects through to completion
• Ability to influence customer technology decisions

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all tasks. Responsibility and requirements may be changed without notice, at the sole discretion of (COMPANY), Inc.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18086xComputational BiologistIndianapolisINDow AgroScienceshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18086x.shtml?source=latproR&D Operational Excellence
Job Number 0803155

Dow AgroSciences LLC, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, is a top-tier agricultural company that combines the power of science and technology with the Human Element to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. Dow AgroSciences provides innovative technologies for crop protection, pest and vegetation management, seeds, traits, and agricultural biotechnology to serve the world's growing population. Global sales for Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, are $4.5 billion. Learn more at www.dowagro.com.

Dow AgroSciences (DAS) seeks a Computational Biologist to assist in the design of experiments and the integration and analyses of omics datasets. This position is located in Indianapolis, IN, USA. The successful candidate will join the Computational Biology group of the R&D Operational Excellence function and will support all functions within DAS R&D.

Key job responsibilities will include development and application of computational biology, mathematical, and statistical algorithms and software to mine biological datasets. Design of biological experiments, analysis, interpretation and presentation of results are expected, as well as identification and implementation of new quantitative methods that improve the integrity and efficiency of the DAS product development cycle. Topics of interest include inferring accurate biological (metabolomic, proteomic and genetic) networks from large datasets, bioinformatics, proteomics, metabolomics, flux analysis, genomics, epigenetics, transcriptomics, information theory, dynamic Bayesian networks, ordinary differential equations, machine learning, support vector machines, instance-based algorithms, and decision trees.

Qualifications:

• The position requires Ph.D. in mathematics, physics, bioengineering, statistics, computer sciences or a closely related field. Two or more years of experience after graduate school is preferable, but not required.
• A solid foundation on analyses of omics data is required.
• Demonstrated ability to write scientific papers is also desirable.
• Strong communication skills are essential along with an ability to collaborate effectively with both laboratory and field scientists.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18087xSupply Chain Analytical Team, multiple positionsChicagoILhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18087x.shtml?source=latproManagement Recruiters of Seneca has a very large client in the northern Chicago suburbs that is building a Supply Chain Analytical Team and has asked us to find qualified candidates to fill multiple positions at various levels - Analysts, Sr. Analysts, Managers.

Qualified people will have a strong background in data analysis, modeling, statistical research, forecasting and data mining, with proven database skills in Access, SQL Server, Excel, etc. Experience in a fast paced, high volume Supply Chain/Inventory Management environment within a large Manufacturing and/or Distribution organization is a must.

If you have an interest in learning more, please send a current resume to resume@mriseneca.com (it won't go out to anyone without your approval) and let us know when you can talk freely. Unlike most recruiters, we will let you know who the client is, where, how much money, etc. if your skill set does meet the requirements. We know this has to be a fit for you as well as our client!

We look forward to hearing from you.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18088xSpecialistRockvilleMDKDDhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18088x.shtml?source=latproCompany: FINRA
Position: Specialist-KDD
Location: Rockville, MD
Web: www.finra.org

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA oversees nearly 5,000 brokerage firms, 173,000 branch offices and 656,000 registered securities representatives. FINRA's mission is to protect investors by maintaining the fairness of the U.S. capital markets.

In support of FINRA's Market Regulation staff, this position is responsible for defining, constructing and maintaining electronic surveillance programs designed to identify potential rule violations and/or market manipulation resulting in investor harm. Successful candidate is responsible for ensuring that assigned surveillance program areas reflects business and technical needs, and meets all end user requirements, including:

• Working closely with Regulatory Business managers to elicit business requirements from Regulation managers and staff.
• Analyzing large data sets, specifically Stock Market transactional data to prepare and present electronic surveillance program specifications.
• Encoding, testing, debugging and documenting surveillance programs and procedures.
• Monitoring and adapting electronic surveillance changes to address industry changes, data issues, participant behavior, and/or rule changes.
• Maintaining relationships with business users, internal and/or external participants. The ideal candidate is a quick learner and a clear communicator of abstract ideas, is able to work with minimal supervision, and is highly motivated and proficient in business/data analysis and SQL/SAS programming working with large data sets. Specific experience and job requirements include:
• Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years progressive experience in analyzing business needs and developing technical solutions.
• Ability to use SQL statements, TOAD/WinSQL, etc to extract and analyze large data sets.
• Ability to merge, manage, manipulate and analyze various data sets.
• Extreme attention to details.
• Strong proficiency in SAS; Experience with C++ and SQL
• Excellent people, communications and project management skills.
• A strong ability to adapt and problem solve.

All interested candidates can apply to our website at www.finra.org/careeropportunities.

Title: Specialist
Job Code: 2025

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18089xDatabase Marketing AnalystGermantownMDDatalab USAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18089x.shtml?source=latproCareer Description:

Database Marketing Analyst - Due to our continued growth we have an immediate need for a Database Marketing Analyst to further expand the capabilities of our award winning analytics team. The cross client position will be responsible for the development and maintenance of the analytical framework that meet the business goals of large scale direct marketing programs.

JOB SUMMARY:

• Analyze the effectiveness of existing predictive models and optimization strategies.
• Manage the full life cycle of model builds.
• Interface directly with clients to consult on the effectiveness of marketing programs.

• Analysis of entire business problems and management solution delivery.
• Management and development of the full life cycle of model builds.
• Programming with SQL.
• Working with extremely large datasets/datawarehouses.
• Strong data mining proficiency.
• SAS/CART/TREENET experience is a plus.

• Aptitude in critical thinking and problem solving.
• Ability to set priorities and work independently and with a team to meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal effectively in a team environment.

Bachelor's degree from a top-tier four-year college or university. Minimum 3 years of database marketing and data mining experience. Applicable experience with the Insurance and Financial industries is a strong advantage.

About Datalab USA

DataLab USA provides unrivaled data based support to marketing-oriented organizations. We combine state-of-the-art technology with practical, hands-on experience to offer a full range of services including data analysis, predictive modeling, data processing, and database management services. We offer a competitive, comprehensive compensation package, challenging work, and excellent career growth potential. Please submit cover letter and resume along with salary requirements and references to: jobs@datalabusa.com. No phone calls please.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18091xSr Manager of Analytics, Online AdvertisingCambridgeMAAkamaihttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18091x.shtml?source=latproAbout Akamai
If you use the Internet for anything - to check sports scores, book a hotel, track an order, or watch a movie trailer online - you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it. Akamai is the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. An S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 company, Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and collaborate for more than 2,000 enterprises. Akamai - Powering a Better Internet.

About the Team

You will be joining Akamai's Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) team - a new division focused on bringing to market a set of behavioral targeting products for the online advertising space. These solutions enable more precise, scalable, and efficient online advertising. You will be working with the largest Publishers, Advertisers, and Ad Networks on the Internet today.

About the Job

ADS's mission is to leverage Akamai's unique position in the Internet ecosystem - carrying web traffic for the premier ad networks, publishers, and advertisers - to reduce friction and expand the behaviorally targeted advertising ecosystem. By eliminating cumbersome pixel-based data sharing systems and inflexible segmentation systems, ADS intends to become a key part of online advertising universe. Our system has already been adopted by many of the leading advertisers and ad networks.

ADS also contains one of the Internets premier databases of online retail behavior - over 100 million anonymous user profiles based on data collected from over 500 retail and product manufacturer web sites. In Q4 2008, over $6.5M of revenue was generated from predictive analytics based products.

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for one of the critical aspects of the business - unlocking the value of data by leading our data modeling efforts. Initial responsibilities will include development of an incremental response methodology, multivariate testing, and systematic exploration of alternate data preparation and modeling approaches to optimize profit. Follow on-work may include segmentation and automatic text classification. This role will manage a small (1-3 person) team, and there will be an opportunity to grow and lead a larger analytics effort as the business unit expands.

Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS degree, advanced degree in Statistics, Computer Science, or Operations preferred
• Overall Experience: 5+ years of experience in applied data mining and modeling
• Experience in direct mail on in online behavioral advertising
• Research or related quantitative disciplines
• Substantial experience with one or more of the major data mining toolsets (SAS EM, SPSS Clementine, KXEN AF) and linear or logistic regression
• Ability to oversee development and develop in SQL, scripting languages, etc.
• Strong understanding of the data mining techniques (clustering, decision trees, SVM)
• Expertise in model design, variable selection and analytic record construction
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with automated text/web classification is a plus
• Prior management experience preferred

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18092xAnalytics ManagerAtlantaGAhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18092x.shtml?source=latproJob Summary -(Role Summary)

Manage strategic and tactical analytics of all projects for the Product Management Department. Lead a team that provides analytical support for various projects including analysis, reporting, making new data sources accessible and market research. Develop analytical tools to measure the performance of various marketing initiatives across Global Distribution Marketing and also track the success of a product thru its life cycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities -(Key Activities)

• Manage the analysis of results of all business programs for the Product Management department
• Develop new methodology to track new products for the team from conception to completion and then ongoing tracking. Exploring and accessing new data sources and making these available to the business unit for self service.
• Oversee the creation of statistical methodology using SAS to better measure success of products and marketing initiatives from a pre and post launch perspective.
• Maintain cutting edge levels of web analytics for the team to be able to use the latest technology available to Product Management for web related projects, like split testing, conversion analysis, design improvements and online surveys.
• Proactively consult with business functional areas (Product mgmt., Americas Channel Analysis, Distribution Technology etc), to set analysis objectives.
• Provide results of these analysis in a format that is easy for the business units to understand and also maintain these results for future use (in a resource repository)
• Oversee the creation of statistical models for distribution business processes. Lead the team in the use of data mining software, and statistical/computational methods in order to take business needs and conceptualize queries that transform data from relational and flat-file database structures to achieve analytical objectives including statistical techniques for post promotion analysis and response modeling.
• Coach and develop team members; hire, fire, assess, discipline, document performance, recommend salary and classifications changes. Act as an advisor to subordinate staff to help meet established schedules and/or resolve technical or operational problems.

Education

Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or other quantitative discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.

Experience

6 -8 years progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines/processes related to the position including relational decision-support databases (preferably a data-warehousing environment), along with demonstrated quantitative/computational skills and web analytics.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing information to clients, vendors, senior management and staff and ability to prepare and deliver solid presentations to both small and large groups.
• Good communication strategy demonstrated for working with off-shore and remote teams.
• Experience with statistical software (SAS, SPSS) and on-line analytical processing tools.
• Must be proficient in the use of business software products such as Excel, Microsoft Access, Word, PowerPoint
• In depth knowledge of Web Analytics tools and vendors and working knowledge of industry trends.
• Demonstrated knowledge of internal business drivers and metrics and trends to be analyzed.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing analysis of distribution marketing and understands online and offline differences and effective uses for both.
• Demonstrate project management experience in organizing, planning and executing large Ð scale projects from conception through implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects concurrently with rapid turn around and high quality deliverables required.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18093xSenior Researcher, DataRushAustinTXPervasivehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18093x.shtml?source=latproJob Description:

Pervasive is seeking a Data Mining expert to support research and development of our Data Rush technology. The ideal candidate will research into potential future directions and current applications for Data Rush. Responsibilities include research into Data Mining in new application areas, cutting-edge technology research and implementation.

Required Experience and Education:

• Masters or PhD in Applied Math or Statistics or similar field.
• Strong background in Data modeling and mining, statistics, information theory, text-mining, data analysis, and other data mining techniques is a requirement
• Sound knowledge of standard computer science data structures and algorithms
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in formulating and solving large scale mathematical optimization problem
• The candidate should be able to code in Java, C/C++ and to a lesser extend Perl or similar language
• Proven ability to design and implement computational algorithms
• We are prepared to train you in some areas to augment your programming skill set. However, we do not believe it will be possible to perform this job without the required background in statistics, information theory, coding, data modeling and mining

• SQL databases and standard data analysis software
• Ability to use Rapid-Miner, S-Plus, Mat Lab, and Insightful Miner
• Experience developing/designing large software system

E-mail resume with cover letter to: Sonja.Coleman [at] pervasive.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18094xSenior Pricing AnalystSan FranciscoCAHotwirehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18094x.shtml?source=latproCompany Overview:

Day one. Step into the Hotwire offices. You'll be instantly greeted by a fun, fast-paced atmosphere. Working here, you'll be surrounded by a bright, motivated group of individuals who share a common goal—to make international and domestic travel-planning easy.

So what makes us Hotwire? Many wonderfully distinct things, including:

• Our open work environment
• People work hard, but get the opportunity to play hard outside the office
• Company-organized outings, including parties, charity events and volunteer days
• Great travel perks
• Vibrant startup atmosphere, yet the stability of being part of Expedia, Inc.
• Opportunities to grow
• An all-inclusive, diverse culture

Welcome. Now prepare for career take-off.

Hotwire.com is a leading discount travel Web site with consistently lower prices on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages. Launched in 2000 with funding from six major airlines, Hotwire negotiates deep discounts from its travel suppliers to help sell their excess inventory. Hotwire is a wholly owned subsidiary of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) and is based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit www.hotwire.com

Job Description:

The Revenue Management team at Hotwire is a strategic group responsible for identifying and driving significant revenue growth across all products. We admit that “revenue management” doesn’t sound like the most exciting thing in the world. But in fact this team and position offer an unparalleled opportunity to get exposure to multiple areas of the business and have significant impact. We work closely with other functions – product development, marketing, customer operations, and finance – with the express goal of using advanced analytics to inform decision making and drive performance. We are responsible for CRM analytics, financial forecasting, and product pricing for different Hotwire lines of business such as Hotel, Car, and Travel Ticker. As an analyst on the team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing programs in these areas to maximize Hotwire’s profitability.

So if you like variety, if you like learning and if you like having a meaningful and measurable impact, then this might be the position for you. Oh! And data. You have to like data. We love data here. We love it more than pizza. More than Oscar-winning movies. Seriously. We love data.

Core responsibilities:

• Closely monitor and diagnose consumer data to drive pricing changes
• Recommend and implement segmentation and pricing tactics that optimize profits
• Deploy, test, and manage pricing rules through the business rules engine
• Provide management with market and/or trend information, needed to make strategic decisions
• Develop consumer and pricing insights from sophisticated data-driven analysis that result in specific action plans
• Lead the development and evolution of analytical models establishing objectives, key metrics, and test plans
• Manage cross-functional ad hoc research requests
• Support periodic (annual, quarterly, monthly) budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting process

• Masters degree with 2-3 years of experience in a quantitative discipline (Industrial Engineering, Statistics, etc)
• Strong quantitative analysis, data-mining, and technical skills
• Strong business sense and logical skills to balance data-driven decisions with intuition
• Passionate about data, ability to work with large data-sets
• Experience using business intelligence and statistical analysis tools (e.g., Microstrategy, SQL, SAS, R)
• Prior experience in pricing, database-marketing or other quantitative area
• Prior experience with time series and forecasting
• Prior experience in leading cross-functional projects
• Prior exposure to CRM analytics a plus
• Experience using business rules management systems a plus
• Programming experience a plus

No Phone Calls Please
No Agencies or Recruiters

Email your resume with cover letter to: a-kcannon [at] hotwire.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18096xStatisticianNeedhamMAHebrew SeniorLifehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18096x.shtml?source=latproHebrew SeniorLife (HSL) is a 100+-year-old organization dedicated to providing seniors with the highest quality of life through an integrated network of health care, research, housing and teaching programs in the Greater Boston area. It is the largest nonprofit provider of senior health care and housing in New England. Our mission is to honor our elders by respecting and promoting their independence, spiritual vigor, dignity and choice and by recognizing that they are a resource to be cherished. Our health-care network comprises Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, a long-term, sub-acute, and long-term medical acute care facility in Boston; three senior housing sites: Jack Satter House in Revere, Simon C. Fireman Community in Randolph, and Center Communities of Brookline; and Orchard Cove, a life-care community in Canton. The Institute for Aging Research in Boston, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is one of the most prestigious aging research facilities in the country. HSL?s NewBridge on the Charles, our premier multigenerational continuing care retirement community in Dedham, consists of 256 independent living units, 50 assisted living units, 41 memory support assisted living units, and a 268-bed Health Care Center, which offers long-term and sub-acute care. Hebrew SeniorLife also offers services to the community, including Adult Day Health programs and outpatient clinics in audiology, exercise, memory disorders, osteoporosis screening, and rehabilitation.

The Statistician will be responsible for analyzing and interpreting data from various sources using standard statistical analysis software. Prepares reports, charts, and tables summarizing data and analyses. Maintain expertise in statistical analysis methods. Provides consultative service to investigators (e.g., methodology, design, analysis, sample size and power calculations). Collaborate with the project investigator, specify equations or algorithms for derived or constructed variables. Perform statistical and programming, including advanced programming (macros, custom programs) in SAS, SPSS, STATA, etc.

Position requires a Ph. D degree in statistics or biostatistics (or closely related field such as medical statistics, biometrics, epidemiology, medical informatics, biopharmaceutical statistics) 2-3 years of experience in a related field. Proficiency using standard statistical software (e.g., SAS, SPSS, STATA, Splus) to write programs to perform statistical analyses and prepare graphical displays of data. Excellent analytical skills required.

Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) is an equal opportunity employer, and we offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package, as well as many opportunities for personal and professional growth. If you are motivated by new opportunities and seek a stimulating and rewarding career, we invite you to join our diverse team of talented professionals who are dedicated to helping seniors and their families. Everything we do flows from these tenets and are further inspired by the duty of tikkun olam - to heal the world.

Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18097xPrincipal Engineer / Applied ScientistSan JoseCAeBayhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18097x.shtml?source=latproeBay is the world's largest online marketplace - where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. With a presence in 39 markets, including the U.S., and approximately 84 million active users worldwide, eBay has changed the face of Internet commerce. In 2007, the total value of sold items on eBay's trading platforms was nearly $60 billion. This means that eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,900 worth of goods on the site every second.

We are building a new team focused on using machine learning for merchandising and targeting on eBay with an initial charter to build a personalized merchandising system with near real-time feedback. If you are excited about building machine learning systems that serve a huge web audiences and advanced data mining solutions on petabytes of data - then this job is for you!

To learn more about the work and the team, please visit the LinkedIn profile of the hiring manager - Harshal Deo

Principal Engineer / Applied Scientist

About the OpportunityThis is a hands-on position with algorithm development and tuning responsibility for on line machine learning systems. The ideal candidate will be either a strong engineer with machine learning experience or a scientist with hands-on programming experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop machine learning algorithms and solutions.
• Design, train and deploy machine learning based models.
• Build, enhance and maintain various software components of the machine learning platform.
• Learn / understand marketing business problems and design creative and scalable solutions.
• Analyze large datasets - built from Petabyte scale data - to tune the models and algorithms for relevancy and targeting.

• Experienced engineer with machine learning experience or a scientist with hands-on programming experience.
• Machine learning / information retrieval / large data mining /Text mining experience.
• Understanding of statistics, Bayesian probability.
• Expert level programming skills with one scripting language like Perl / Python.
• Strong programming skills specifically working with C/C++ or Java. Experience with large databases / files and in memory data structures.
• Large dataset experience preferably working with complex enterprise / web datasets.

• BS / MS in computer science or related field and 7 to 10 years of related programming experience or PhD in computer science with 3 to 5 years of hands on programming experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications in a 'large data' environment is a must.

Hiring Manager: Harshal Deo

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18098xData Mining EngineerSan JoseCAeBayhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18098x.shtml?source=latproeBay is the world's largest online marketplace - where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. With a presence in 39 markets, including the U.S., and approximately 84 million active users worldwide, eBay has changed the face of Internet commerce. In 2007, the total value of sold items on eBay's trading platforms was nearly $60 billion. This means that eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,900 worth of goods on the site every second.

We are building a new team focused on using machine learning for merchandising and targeting on eBay with an initial charter to build a personalized merchandising system with near real-time feedback. If you are excited about building machine learning systems that serve a huge web audiences and advanced data mining solutions on petabytes of data - then this job is for you!

To learn more about the work and the team, please visit the LinkedIn profile of the hiring manager - Harshal Deo

Principal Data Mining Engineer

About the Opportunity

This position is part of a newly created Machine learning solutions team focused on merchandising and targeting at eBay. The individual who occupies this role will be in a hands-on leadership position with end-to-end responsibility for scalable machine learning solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work with a cross functional team (engineering, research and analytics) and provide data mining leadership to the team.
• Design advanced data mining solutions for mining Petabytes of data!
• Design and develop creative visualization and analytics tools for speeding data driven machine learning applications development.
• Lead, design and develop the data transformations needed for producing machine learning data sets.
• Learn / understand the marketing business problems and enable targeted solutions design using bottom up data driven design approach.
• Design tools & processes to help the analysts and research scientists to be more productive.

• Experienced software / research / data engineer with expert level database (SQL, data modeling) and programming skills.
• Solid understanding of data mining, analytics and visualization tools and libraries. Candidates with experience using those on large datasets preferred.
• Significant programming skills with one scripting language like Perl / Python. Or expert level reporting / ETL experience.
• Hands-on programming experience with languages such as C/C++ or Java, working with large databases / files and in memory data structures.
• Large dataset experience preferably working with com plex enterprise / web datasets - preferred.
• Understanding of machine learning / data mining / statistics is a plus but not required
• Need to be a team player with good cross functional / collaboration skills.

• BS / MS in computer science or related field and 7 to 10 years of related programming experience or r PhD in computer science with 5 to 7 years of hands on programming experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications in a business environment is a must.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18099xDirector of Decision ScienceMelvilleNYFirst Datahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18099x.shtml?source=latproThis position is responsible for the development and integration of data mining and predictive modeling applications for all aspects of the First Data Global Leasing organization, including risk management, collections, and retention. The successful candidate will be an independent thinker and problem solver, with the ability to translate business problems into analytic solutions. There is a significant amount of interaction with senior management, from brainstorming new ideas and solutions, discussing business objectives/problems, presenting proposed solutions and 'selling ideas', to presenting analytic content and showing bottom-line benefit. This position will also be partially responsible for evaluating all aspects of developing and maintaining long-term strategic platforms for supporting data mining applications within the First Data Global Leasing organization. This position will lead R&D activities to solve for complex problems in the organization, forming contacts with academia and industry experts.

The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a highly technical/mathematical discipline (i.e., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics) with extensive knowledge in statistical theory (regression and multivariate statistics) and data mining techniques. Work experience utilizing predictive modeling and advanced data mining techniques in a real-world setting, preferably in a credit-related environment, is required. Candidate should be familiar with Decision trees, Neural Network, and logistic regression techniques, theory and application. The person we are seeking will have extremely effective communications, organizational and project management skills. General knowledge of database systems such as Access and Oracle, SAS programming experience and strong overall technical skills are required.

5+ years of experience is preferred.

Email resume to: Jodi.cohen [at] firstdata.com (replace [at] with @)

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18100xAnalytics and Modeling ProfessionalOmahaNEWest Asset Managementhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18100x.shtml?source=latproWest Asset Management is currently seeking an analytics and modeling professional to join our dynamic data mining and modeling team within our Analytic Intelligence Group. Data Mining Analysts are responsible for conducting analytical and data-mining projects to prioritize customer contacts and improve operational performance. Successful candidates will have the appropriate mixture of analytics / research skills and familiarity with the practical business applications of predictive modeling within the accounts receivable management industry. Other success factors include the abilities to work in a fast-paced team environment while handling multiple projects simultaneously, to prioritize tasks and complete projects with minimal direct supervision, and to clearly communicate and present complex analytics results to internal business clients in practical and simple business terms.

Applicants for this job will be expected to meet the following minimum qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, Mathematics, MIS, Psychology, or related field required.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Psychology, MIS, or related field preferred. Equivalent work experience in a similar position may be substituted for educational requirements.

Minimum two years experience in statistics, data mining, or direct marketing consulting required.

Technical Knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint Required
• Knowledge of program languages (e.g., C++ C, etc.) preferred
• Knowledge of Databases (SQL, IBMDB2) preferred
• Knowledge of Statistical Software (SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Enterprise Guide, SPSS, etc.) preferred

West Asset Management is a leader in the cost containment and accounts receivable management industry. Backed by our $2 billion parent company, West Corporation, West Asset Management helps premier businesses and institutions maximize their return on receivables at every stage of the recovery cycle. As one of the nation's leading receivables management companies, we offer a full suite of receivables management solutions to a wide variety of industries.

Check out our opportunities and see the difference a career can make.

www.westassetmanagement.jobs
Job requisition # 927391 You must apply online to be considered.

West Asset Management. Achieve more.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18101xStatistics EngineerSunnyvaleCAEfficient Frontierhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18101x.shtml?source=latproEfficient Frontier (www.efrontier.com), a leading SEM solution provider, is looking for a statistics engineer to maintain and enhance models and algorithms in Sunnyvale, CA, office.

Responsibilities

• Enhancement of currently defined models and heuristic applications
• Development of customized models
• Programming predictive modeling algorithms
• Assessing the statistical significance of performance differences between models; e.g. hypothesis testing to compare a model with new features to an already deployed model.

• Master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in quantitative discipline: statistics, econometrics, applied math, computer science, machine learning
• Comprehensive understanding of some of the following quantitative methods: multivariate regression, classification, cluster analysis, simultaneous equation models, decision trees, hypothesis testing, neural nets, SVM, time series, outlier identification, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations etc.
• Proficiency in R/ SAS/ SPSS and SQL
• Experience with large data sets
• Exposure to operations research/ linear and non-linear optimization concepts is a plus

Please e-mail your resume to: jobs@efrontier.com.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18102xDirector, Data Strategy & AnalyticsNew YorkNYSimulmediahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18102x.shtml?source=latproAre you ready to join a high energy and fun new company in NYC working with a dedicated and talented team? We are looking for a true high level mathematics and statistics guru who is interested in becoming a thought leader and change agent in the $70B TV advertising marketplace. This hands-on manager must have experience in advising C-Level key business decisions using complex models they personally developed.

Only true statisticians need apply.

Key Skills:

• Thought Leadership. Design and construct analytical models.
• Expert knowledge of complex analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis.
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts.

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. This fast-paced start up is pioneering the development of predictive technology using a variety of data sources to help television companies deliver the right on-air promotions to the right viewers at the right time.

The Director, Data Strategy & Analytics (DS&A) drives Simulmedia's data strategy. We need someone who is a leader of people and ideas. The candidate will conceive and implement the statistical and analytical methods necessary to understand television consumption habits of viewers and their responses to on-air promotion. The Director, DS&A will work closely with senior leadership, product and technology teams to refine and take to market Simulmedia's offering. The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, creative, and with a voracious, wide-ranging curiosity. She/he should have a strong applied math or computer science background and should have 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets.

The Director DSA's responsibilities include:

• Developing, validating and maintaining audience data models and clustering/segmentation algorithms
• Designing requirements for structures to host data and support analytical applications required for the services
• Managing, mentoring and growing team of data analysts
• Identifying new sources of data to improve and enrich services
• Conceiving and implementing the analytical applications useful to media and marketing partners and conveying audience insights

• Expert knowledge of analytical techniques including Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization Techniques, Classification Algorithms, Decision Trees, Bayesian Networks, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
• Power user of canned statistical analysis software (e.g. SAS, SPSS or Oracle data mining tools)
• 3-5 years experience working on data-mining and statistical techniques on extremely large datasets
• Strong data modeling and querying capability
• Master's level degree (or equivalent expertise/knowledge) in quantitative or analytical discipline such as Statistics, Decision Sciences, Operations Research or Econometrics.
• 3-5 years experience developing analytical models in marketing, finance, advertising or economics.
• 2+ years leading a team of analysts
• Working knowledge of one or more software development languages expected (Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Perl)
• Marketing intuition and familiarity with the attention economy a plus

We offer competitive salary, benefits, vacation, stock options and a stake in our company's success.

For consideration please send your resume with a cover letter and salary history to careers@simulmedia.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18103xHuman Resources Workforce Planning AnalystWarrenvilleILNational Expresshttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18103x.shtml?source=latproNational Express Corporation (NEC), a nationwide leader in student transportation services, is made up of Durham School Services in the United States and Stock Transportation in Canada. Both Durham and Stock share a strong commitment to provide quality transportation, outstanding customer service, positive employee relations and the highest level of safety.

We are currently seeking a Human Resources Workforce Planning Analyst to work from our Warrenville, IL location. As an HR Workforce Planning Analyst, you will have the opportunity to support the Driver Recruiting Team with research, analysis, reports and recommendations related to all aspects of Driver recruitment and retention. You will create, assess, evaluate and report on recruitment activity metrics. In this role, you will develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external recruitment stakeholders to support enhancement of Driver recruitment and retention.

Requirements Include:

• Undergraduate degree in a related discipline or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
  • Demonstrated experience using software programs (e.g. Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Office, Excel, Access, various internet browsers) to monitor, track and report on hiring progress and results; conduct internet searches and research and prepare reports.
  • Experience in a recruiting environment, providing HR support and analysis or similar environment requiring data analytics processing or customer service.
  • Knowledge of the principles, practices, concepts, methods, tools, techniques and issues of recruitment to research, analyze, evaluate and make effective recommendations on a variety of aspects of recruitment
  • Knowledge of research, analytical and statistical assessment and evaluation methods and techniques to analyze a large volume of data and identify trends and issues.
  • Well-developed oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to work in a team environment

Apply Online

or visit our website at www.nationalexpresscorp.com, select the “Join Our Team” tab, select our “Illinois” location, and submit your resume via the website directly.

National Express Corporation is an equal opportunity employer

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18106xAnalytics ScientistMountain ViewCALinkedInhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18106x.shtml?source=latproLinkedIn is used by more than 38 million professionals around the world to exchange information, ideas and opportunities. We’re changing the way business gets done by creating a platform that enables people to control their identities online, manage their most valued professional relationships, get unique insights to help them in their jobs, and develop new relationships.

We're looking for superb analytical minds to expand our team that will build some of the most innovative products at LinkedIn. You should be extremely intelligent, have a quantitative background, and be able to learn quickly and work independently. This is the perfect job for someone who's really smart, driven, and extremely skilled at creatively solving problems. A strong background in statistics, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, programming, and product design is a plus, but most importantly you've got to start with what we can't teach...intellectual sharpness and creativity.

This is a unique opportunity to help define and build a new product and engineering team within a mid-sized (360 employees), globally-recognized, energetic, ambitious, and profitable pre-IPO startup. LinkedIn has amassed an incredible dataset, which we use to deliver highly personalized experiences for all our users. Our group also leverages our unique dataset, our creativity, and our skill with quantitative analysis to design and and build products like "people you may know", "who's viewed my profile", "jobs for you", and "company profiles" and core data infrastructure on which many of our products rely on (e.g. standardizing companies). The environment here is optimized for speed--for example, within a week of the initial concept for "viewers of this profile also viewed", it was live on the site. There are many products along these lines that you can help improve, develop and invent. The work is both intellectually rewarding and delivers important value to our users. In addition, the work's varied: one week, you may be involved in predicting which ads a specific user is likely to click on (profile targeted advertising), and the next, working on a model that decides whether 'Webex, Inc' is the same as 'Webex Communications' (it isn't). Changing the way business gets done around the world is no easy task, which is why we only hire the best and the brightest people who are motivated to challenge the norms, continually innovate and learn, and help others. If you fit this profile, then LinkedIn will be a rewarding and interesting place for you.

Apply Online

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18107xActuaryLouisvilleKYHumanahttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18107x.shtml?source=latproHumana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies. Humana offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services - through traditional and consumer-choice plans - to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals.

Today, Humana is a leader in consumer engagement. Throughout its diversified customer portfolio, the company provides guidance that can both help lower costs and lead to a better health plan experience.

Are you a fit?
Are you a detail-oriented analytical thinker? Would you enjoy using your mathematical knowledge to analyze and improve current business processes? If so, read on!

Assignment Capsule
As an Actuarial Analyst you will develop technical and business knowledge by collecting and analyzing data related to product development, pricing, reserving, financial reporting and other actuarial functions.

• Apply expertise and technical support, under the guidance of seasoned associates, in matters related to the successful and financially sound operation of the companies business to the departments external and internal customers.
• Analyze experience reports and manual rate analyses, developing recommendations for improvements, and preparing state filings for rate changes and product implementation that will ensure the profitability and financial integrity of Humana’s business.
• Evaluate reserving estimates and assess their adequacy.
• Act as liaison to the IT department to ensure that effective rating systems are in place.

• Builds Trust: You honor your word by doing what you say you are going to do.
• Implementation/Execution: You are good at organizing and managing multiple priorities and/or projects by using appropriate methodologies and tools.
• Innovate: You introduce new ideas and processes which improve performance and productivity.
• Problem Solving: You are a problem solver with the ability to encourage others in collaborative problem solving. Acting as both a broker and consultant regarding resources, you engage others in problem solving without taking over.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18108xSenior Data Mining SpecialistSanta MonicaCAActivisionhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18108x.shtml?source=latproActivision is looking for an outstanding Sr. Data-Mining Specialist with a passion for games to join our Central Design and Technologies team. This individual will have a pragmatic approach to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The ideal candidate will possess peerless data-mining and analytical skills, a boundless intellectual curiosity, and demonstrated ability to not only to extract gold from terabytes of data, but to present the results in a concise and meaningful manner. This is a critical hire with a potential for rapid growth.

Basic Function:

The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist will personally drive exploration and analysis of large, complex data sets representing hundreds of millions of real-world play sessions. Responsibilities include working with Central Design and Technologies to establish the feasibility of critical studies, choosing the right tools and techniques to mine the data in a timely way, iterating on data visualization, and actively steering the data-mining group towards interesting results.

The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must have a deep knowledge of and passion for all aspects of analysis; from seeing the possibilities in a given dataset, to using standard tools to perform complex extraction and analysis, to presenting results in a meaningful way. Problem-solving, prioritizing the need for timely answers while being open to discovery, and attention to detail must be second nature. The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must thrive in a challenging and ambiguous environment and be adept at driving to meaningful results regardless of technical or organizational hurdles. The Sr. Data-Mining Specialist must be pragmatic and practical, rather than scholastic in their approach.

Principal Working Relationships:

• Sr. Director of Game Design (reports to)
• VP of Online Technology and Central Online team
• Database architects and programmers
• Sr. online staff at development studios

• Relevant degree required; advanced degree a plus
• 8 years experience and demonstrated expertise in data-mining and statistical analysis
• Possess strong understanding of standard data-mining tools and techniques. Experience with diverse statistical and data mining methods (e.g., cluster analysis, GLM/Regressions, Trees, SVMs, etc.). Social network analysis experience is a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of the realities of working with large, rich datasets
• Demonstrated ability to compromise and improvise while driving for results
• Must be committed to finding useful answers to fascinating questions
• Able to work and problem solve independently, to organize workload and priorities, and complete tasks on time
• Proven ability for high-quality execution, technical innovation/adaptation, and initiative.
• Avid gamer with a strong interest and knowledge of the video game industry

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18111xStatistical Marketing AnalystSaint PetersburgFLKobiehttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18111x.shtml?source=latproKobie Marketing is a growing, nationally recognized industry leader in the customer retention and loyalty marketing industry. We are experts at developing, implementing, and managing industry leading loyalty marketing programs. Our vast experience is complemented by a culture that is deeply committed to client service. Our employees are the reason behind our success, and we would like to offer you an opportunity to build a successful career as a part of our team. To learn more about the benefits of working at Kobie please visit our website at www.kobie.com.

Kobie Marketing currently has an opening in the Strategic Services Division for a Statistical Marketing Analyst. The ideal Statistical Marketing Analyst will have a strong understanding of database marketing, interpretation of data, analyzing results, and recommending further uses of the data for marketing and planning purposes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage customer behavior-based models, analyzing, executing, maintaining, enhancing and interpreting the models and their outputs.
• Explore, expand and improve the capabilities of the models so as to exploit to their full advantage.
• Provide customized analytic services for database modeling and market research projects.
• Provide and present insights on customer attitudes and behavior to support actionable marketing strategy and tactics.

• Strong problem solving skills; can think independently with strong intellectual curiosity.
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, or other similar statistical programs as demonstrated by the ability to write statistical programming codes/syntax.
• Detailed knowledge and experience in performing data manipulation (code/syntax writing), i.e., data recode, transpose, cleansing, and other necessary requirements before any data analysis.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Multivariate and advanced statistics including regression analysis (GLM), factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminate analysis, conjoint analysis, categorical data analysis, and decision trees.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite with advanced Excel skills.
• A Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Social Sciences or related quantitative fields, or equivalent experience.
• MS SQL, SAS, Microsoft Office Suite with advanced Excel skills. Experience with Tableau a plus
• 3-5 years minimum work experience in analytics. 5-7 years or equivalent experience in related field preferred

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18112xInformation Retrieval Software EngineerSeattleWAAmazonhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18112x.shtml?source=latproAmazon.com's Darwin team is looking for exceptional software engineers to develop algorithms and build systems to automatically solve a variety of Information Retrieval and Data Mining problems related to the Amazon Product Catalog - one of the company's biggest asset.

Our principal challenge is to improve the shopping experience by detecting duplicate products for sale in the catalog and merging them. Merchants on Amazon.com provide information about the products they want to sell. Amazon attempts to match these product data submissions to items in its catalog so that it can display offers for the same product on a single page. Poorly structured or incomplete data makes this problem very challenging and often results in duplicate products getting created in the catalog. These duplicate products are shown in search results and end up confusing customers, leading to a bad customer experience. The Darwin team detects these duplicate products in the Amazon.com catalog using an innovative mix of Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Text Analysis algorithms and human intelligence harnessed via the Amazon Mechanical Turk. We then automatically merge products detected as duplicates together, improving customer experience and the quality of the catalog.

We are also responsible for a variety of other Catalog-related projects such as placing Product Advertisements on pages, automatically extracting important product features from the product description with a view to improving the discovery (search and browse) experience on the website and detecting egregious cases of poor quality data provided by sellers.

We are a highly-motivated, co-operative and fun loving team who thrive on solving challenging problems with innovation. As part of this team you will be analyzing data, developing new algorithms, building large-scale distributed software systems in Java using open source technologies such as Apache Lucene and JBoss and other Amazon.com proprietary technologies.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Math or related field with 2+ years of experience.
• Past experience in at least one of the following areas - Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Text Analysis or Machine Learning.
• Desire to analyze data while developing solutions to problems.
• Strong desire to build high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
• Strong design and coding skills in Java/C++ on Unix Platforms.
• Familiar with Perl and have a good understanding of SQL.
• Be highly innovative, flexible and self-directed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18113xDirector, AnalyticsNew YorkNYGilt.comhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18113x.shtml?source=latproGilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to men’s, women’s and children’s coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Launched in November 2007, Gilt Groupe is a new and exciting online fashion business, revolutionizing the way consumers across America shop. Headquartered in New York, Gilt Groupe is a members-only sample sale website, providing an exclusive sneak-peek into the latest collections of high-end fashion at highly discounted prices. With a limited time window of 24-48 hours to shop each designer sale, members have exclusive access to a fresh and exciting roster of desirable merchandise every week!

Gilt Groupe is built upon proven, successful track records and is a fully funded company. Members of the founding team bring experience from eBay, DoubleClick, Saks Fifth Avenue and many more. We are growing rapidly and offer very competitive salary with equity.

The primary responsibility for this role is using data to help the business make better decisions in areas of marketing, CRM, customer retention, merchandising and pricing and strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will have strong consultative skills in addition to quantitative ability, and will be aware of the challenges of using statistics in a business setting, such as incomplete data, biased data, and large data sets. Requires being creative and resourceful in use of both traditional and newer statistical and data mining techniques. This is green fields opportunity to build something from the ground up and a chance to model a business that has not existed before.

Responsibilities

• Use personalization techniques to drive business metrics, such as revenue through site and email channels.
• Build models to predict milestone customer behaviors, acquisition, conversion, retention.
• Ensure rigor in any testing program. Lead by example.
• Model product price sensitivity.
• Develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis
• Discover and drive new opportunities to optimize the business.
• In partnership with the Director, Business Intelligence identify opportunities to enrich our data to improve our modeling.
• Partner with IT to implement models and tests
• Hire and mentor a small team

• Experience with data mining in a marketing context, but not solely marketing. Breadth is appreciated.
• Experience with statistical software, such as SPSS, S+, SAS, R. (Product not yet selected.)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience with SQL, relational database design and methods for efficiently retrieving data from them.
• 7-10 years professional experience.
• Must be able to maintain a big picture perspective.
• Must have entrepreneurial spirit and drive, thriving in a fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing industry.
• Masters Degree in statistics, econometrics or related field. Ph.D. preferred.
• Experience with survey a plus.
• Fluent in a major programming language a plus.

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Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you. 18114xMarketing Mix ModelerChicagoILDraftfcbhttp://www.datashaping.com/jobs18114x.shtml?source=latproThe Commander of Calculations. The Numerical Genius. The Tr