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 (master’s 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.

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