The Hired Guns are seeking a dynamic data scientist to take on the role of Experimentation Lead for the digital product and analytics team of a famous retail brand that’s a major player in both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retail. If you’re a data-driven communicator with a passion for optimizing online retail, read on and apply!

The Nitty Gritty
The backstory on the organization and why they need to hire you!

The Experimentation Lead will be a strong individual contributor who anchors a “center of excellence” that will align stakeholders in finance, marketing, product analytics, and business leadership to create a common framework for experimentation that can be applied to all digital features and experiences, thereby ensuring consistently smart, impactful decision-making across the digital organization. You’ll accomplish this goal by defining experimentation requirements with product managers, designing testing methodology using statistical models, and identifying key success metrics. In partnership with finance and product analytics, You’ll analyze the findings of each test and help build a learning organization where findings feed back into sharper experimentation models over time.

Along the way, you’ll serve as the prime evangelist for measurement and experimentation by educating cross-functional collaborators and providing thought leadership that advances the team’s experimentation processes. You’ll evaluate new tools and technologies. You’ll create ways to provide libraries and dashboards of tests and results that arm your colleagues with ever more powerful tools to innovate the business.

Why You?
How you’ll know if you’re a fit…

The dream candidate is a data scientist or data analyst with a brilliant flair for designing revealing experiments that can be leveraged across multiple situations. You combine a deep understanding of statistical analysis with an uncanny ability to communicate complex concepts to an audience of widely varying numeracy. You’re the total package if you excel in data manipulation via SQL, are intimately familiar with Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target, and have experience with visualization platforms (e.g. Tableau). Experience working with Bayesian statistical methods is a big, big plus.  Wrap it all up with retail experience (or at least a strong interest in digital retail and an intuition for how to leverage experimentation to innovate the e-commerce customer journey).

The Inside Skinny
Why you should quit your job right now and join this organization!

The right candidate for this job will have the opportunity to do highly specialized, in-demand work for one of America’s most celebrated brands. The organization’s current investment in digital innovation is grounded in analytics, so it’s a sure thing you’ll be doing cutting-edge and high-visibility work.

The Hired Guns does not and will not discriminate in considering and referring candidates for employment, or in its treatment or advancement of its employees, and will not tolerate harassment, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender (including gender identity and expression), sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.