It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Want in?

A Little About Yahoo

Yahoo is a values-led company committed to building brands people love. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of 50+ media and technology brands. A global leader in digital and mobile, Yahoo is shaping the future of media.

Our Mission

• Build brands consumers love
• Build platforms customers love
• Build a company talent loves
  

A Lot About You

Yahoo is looking for a versatile data enthusiast with excellent business sense, outstanding analytical skills, a proven ability to communicate analytical findings, and rich experience in leveraging first-party big data. We are responsible for providing fast, clean, and relevant data for key measurements and insights about the users of Yahoo.

You are always curious, self-motivated, and eager to learn new domain knowledge. You are an out-of-the-box thinker, a believer in data-driven approaches, and a quick learner. You enjoy working with a strong, cross-functional, and cross-geography team of business leads, product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to develop the products that consumer loves.

You are objective-driven, fact-based, and impact-oriented. You always think positively, have a can-do attitude, and focus on “getting things done” with quality. You make those around you better and enjoy working collaboratively. You are responsible and are always thinking of how your work can impact the broader organization.

Your Day

• Business and product opportunity exploration: Identify and manage projects that drive key business initiatives to deliver company strategic goals, specifically on the Yahoo Global Media products, including Homepage, News, and Media Platform. Discover insights into users, products, and publishers to identify business and user growth opportunities. Understand the underlying data systems and schemas that can inform these measurements.

• Experimentation: Conduct analytics and experimentation with concrete A/B testing processes to drive product design and enhancement. Collaborate with product managers, researchers, engineers, and designers to develop programs of research and experimentation for product development.

• Analysis & Action Plans: Conduct ad-hoc investigations and provide analysis and commentary to explain business trends and market drivers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-market and cross-functional partner teams to conduct and drive action plans.
• Data Investigation & Troubleshooting: Experience at “cracking” complex business and analytical problems. In particular, experience in working with large data sets, developing data models/schemas, and identifying and troubleshooting data discrepancies.

You Must Have

• BS/MS in a quantitative field or equivalent experience. MS/MBA is a plus.
• 4+ years experience in business analytics, data analytics, or business intelligence. Experience in developing and executing user growth strategies is a plus. Experience in leading analyses end-to-end is also a plus, from scoping requirements and developing analytics plans to developing and communicating insights.

• 1+ years of experience designing, implementing and analyzing A/B tests.

• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and business impact assessment skills.
• Strong interpersonal, teamwork, and communication skills.
• Strong multi-tasking management, proactive working attitude, and intellectual curiosity with an appetite to learn.
• Strong data processing skills (e.g. SQL, R, Python) and familiarity with Excel/Google sheets.
• Fluency in English is required.