Job Description

Director, Data Science & Analytics

The Post Digital Network reaches 80 million people every month across NYPost.com, PageSix.com, and Decider.com. This is an opportunity to join an iconic media brand as it continues to expand and roll out exciting new products.

The Data Science & Analytics team at the New York Post is responsible for end-to-end data capture, analysis, and data productization. The team seeks a Director, Data Science & Analytics with 4-6 years of experience in a data science or analytics role.

Responsibilities:

* Create and manage end-to-end machine learning model lifecycles
* Translate business objectives into data solutions using appropriate data science applications

* Ensure proper data collection is in place across all platforms (site, social, apps, distributed content) from technical, strategic, and business perspectives

* Leverage the data gathered to better understand how users find New York Post content, where they consume it, how to further optimize that experience, and drive them down the marketing funnel

* Aggregate, analyze, and present analyses for a variety of users from the editorial, product, audience development, sales, and executive teams

* Automate internal reporting using different platforms like Tableau, custom apps, or other tools with the aim of advancing the self-service analytics function

* Maintain relationships with relevant vendors and explore new relationships as necessary

* Manage a team of data scientists and analysts and lead internal teams toward insights-driven initiatives

* Collaborate with internal users on new data products, analyses, and engagements

* Become a data expert on New York Post properties, distribution tactics, and how to interpret the outputs collected from them

Qualifications:

* Experience in gathering, synthesizing, and analyzing large data sets, particularly social network data, web analytics tools, and distributed content tracking
* Expert-level Excel skills

* Working knowledge of Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics is important

* SQL proficiency

* Experience in media and/or digital publishing is ideal

* Fluency in Python, R or similar machine learning language

* Experience with Optimizely for A/B tests on the web and in apps

* Working knowledge of data engineering is a plus

* A detail-oriented work ethic

* A sense of curiosity about what makes audiences interact with digital content, a desire to experiment and innovate with existing tools, and a need to figure out whats next and plan for the future

As an equal opportunity employer, the New York Post does not discriminate in hiring or the terms and conditions of employment because of an individuals race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The New York Post will consider the provision of reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental disabilities of otherwise qualified applicants to enable them to participate in our application process and to effectively perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would impose an undue financial or operational hardship.

Job Category : DIGITAL

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