The Nielsen Company – Data Scientist – Media and Marketing Mix Developer
Understanding marketing effectiveness is critical to success of businesses across all verticals. As the world’s largest research organization, Nielsen is powered by talented, creative scientists and researchers. Visual IQ/Nielsen associates come from diverse disciplines that include business, economics, engineering, mathematics, operations research, and statistics. These professionals drive innovation and insight through continual ideation, complex analyses, and delivery of insights to our clients. Because measurement is at the core of Nielsen’s business, our products have high visibility and make a direct impact on our clients.
The team in Needham has an opportunity available for a Data Scientist. The ideal candidate must have work experience in the development of econometric models, expertise in modern analytics programming, a solid foundation in developing solutions for marketing, advertising organizations and/or pricing, and the capacity to work in an agile development environment alongside software engineers.
Full-time Employment
- Ph.D. degree in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other Quantitative Field of Study
- 2+ years work experience in delivering analytics software solutions in a production environment
- 2+ years work experience in quantitative marketing analysis, with an emphasis on statistical, econometric and predictive analytic research that drives analytic product Innovation and implementation
- Expertise in analytics programming using R. Profeciency with other high level languages such as Python is highly desired.
- Exceptional problem solving skills
- Well-organized and capable of handling multiple mission-critical projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines
- Excellent oral and written communication skills