Job Description
Seeking a talented and innovative analyst to turn passion for data and support of world-class journalism into datasets and insights to shape the future of personalization at The Times. The analytics research manager collaborates with data scientists, product managers, and engineers to understand our users, content and the moments where personalization can make a difference for our users. This position requires extremely strong strategic and tactical viewpoints, mastery of statistics and analytical techniques, and a creative mindset. This role reports into a new squad devoted to personalization-based research.
Responsibilities:
* Analyze user and content data to gather and present insights on user behavior and opportunities for new, personalized user experiences
* Segment our user base and the moments at which they turn to The Times
* Propose, build and test new user metrics that drive new personalized experiences
* Conduct personalization A/B tests and report on results
* Collaborate closely with data science, product, and newsroom teams to develop the future of personalization
Qualifications:
* Quantitative degree (masters preferred)
* 3+ years experience in analytical or engineering roles
* Mastery of SQL, Python or R a plus
* Strong data analysis experience with one or more of the following: clustering, latent variable models, network analysis, markov models, and predictive modeling
* Strong experience with big data environments
* Strong experience in data visualization/reporting
* Experience with modeling user behavior
* Experience with creating and evaluating user metrics
* Experience with experimentation
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, data storytelling skills, and ability to work seamlessly with multiple stakeholders in a cross functional team of analysts, technologists, operations and product managers.
* NLP and production-scale ML experience a plus
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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.
The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local Fair Chance laws.
New York, New York
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as the NYT and NYTimes) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership. Founded in 1851, the paper has won 127 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The Times is ranked 17th in the world by circulation and 2nd in the U.S.
The paper is owned by The New York Times Company, which is publicly traded and is controlled by the Sulzberger family through a dual-class share structure. It has been owned by the family since 1896; A.G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher, and his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the company's chairman, are the fourth and fifth generation of the family to head the paper.
Nicknamed "The Gray Lady", the Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record". The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page.
Since the mid-1970s, The New York Times has greatly expanded its layout and organization, adding special weekly sections on various topics supplementing the regular news, editorials, sports, and features. Since 2008, the Times has been organized into the following sections: News, Editorials/Opinions-Columns/Op-Ed, New York (metropolitan), Business, Sports of The Times, Arts, Science, Styles, Home, Travel, and other features. On Sunday, the Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review (formerly the Week in Review), The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. The Times stayed with the broadsheet full-page set-up and an eight-column format for several years after most papers switched to six, and was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography, especially on the front page.