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Data Analyst and Dashboard Developer: Cross Creek Systems

Job ID10050
Company NameCross Creek Systems
Job CategoryTechnology; Internet
LocationMountain View, CA
Position TypeFull-Time, Employee
Experience5-10 Years Experience
Date PostedJuly 16, 2009 (Reposted Jan 5)

Analyst position description

We are the leading platform for mobile entertainment attracting millions of unique visitors each month. As a Senior Analyst, you will report to the CEO and serve internal customers from marketing, product, engineering and finance with their data analysis needs. A typical day at the office for you would look like -

- update daily dashboards

- dig into anything out of the ordinary in daily dashboards

- maintain a pipeline of analysis, reports, ad-hoc analysis from various internal customers

- gather detailed requirements from customers

- verify data "cleanliness" periodically

- discuss results and findings with customers

- forage through data looking for patterns

- develop and test hypotheses based on customer requests

- prepare compelling presentations summarizing findings. remember you almost always have an executive audience for your output.

You must be very comfortable with:

- serving internal customers - product, marketing, engineering, finance

- statistics - knowing which formulas to use when, understand statistical significance, multi variate analysis, predictive modeling

- core concepts and metrics for user experience, sales, customer satisfaction, user acquisition

- approaching data analysis in a structured fashion - customer query - > hypotheses -> analysis -> conclusions

- data analysis tools: BI, Excel, Pivot tables, SQL query language

- visualization of data - different chart types for different problems

- large datasets >300K rows per day

- terms that should mean something to you: left join, student's t, linest, in memory db

Compensation

- will be in line with top of the range in the industry

- will depend on your level of experience

Education/Experience

- MS or higher in Engineering, Statistics, or Mathematics

- 5 years minimum work experience

Aditional:

Experience with data visualization and dashboard creation

ET L experience sourcing multiple sets of data into common repository

Experience with MapReduce, Hadoop and data warehousing environments

Proficient with writing and running SQL queries; experience with MySQL or equivalent

Hands-on experience working with multi-terabyte databases

Experience with market-leading BI technologies such as Informatica and Microstrategy

Strong knowledge and understanding of structured analysis and technical design techniques

Full life cycle experience working under structured development processes

Excellent communication and teamwork skills are essential with both internal employees/management and client resources

Bachelor’s degree in CS, MIS, Statistics or similar




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