Principal Data Scientist - Pricing and Performance

Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams, appreciate progressive industries, and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Job Description

The Team

This Data Scientist role sits within the Artificial Intelligence Platform Services (AIPS) team. The team is structured into cross-disciplinary squads with members from Data Science, Product, and Engineering who work together to define, design, build and support end-to-end machine learning based services delivering direct value to hirers and job seekers.

Key Accountabilities

Working with highly motivated Data Scientists within SEEK’s AI team, you and your team will:

1. Build and support end-to-end products delivering value to hirers and job seekers that are powered by machine learning models
2. Bring insightful analysis to empower your team and senior partners to make impactful decisions
3. Align across functions and teams, estimate effort, identify dependencies, and collaborate to coordinate the Data Science delivery in support of the team's products.
4. Develop your team’s talent by providing technical leadership and delivery management capability. Develop a deep understanding of a niche business domain within SEEK, such as pricing, market position, or ad performance.
5. Developing a deep understanding of the data available to SEEK, and how it can influence decisions made within your sphere of responsibility.

To be successful in this highly collaborative role, you will, as part of a multi-functional team, focus on the inference components of products that help SEEK better understand the marketplace. Any given day, you might:

1. Build concise, statistically sound assessment of models
2. Help design A/B tests
3. Refine and clarify strategic thinking with data
4. Collaborate with engineers to build end-to-end AI/ML solutions
5. Collaborate with product managers to review and iterate product roadmaps
6. Suggest appropriate ML methods and explain the associated benefits and limitations
7. Support the growth of other data scientists, including validating the value, accuracy, and limitations of the assets the team builds
8. Stay up to date with emerging techniques in data science like Generative AI

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Experience

1. 8+ years of commercial experience building and improving data-driven products
2. Strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to operate in an ambiguous environment
3. Knowledge of machine learning algorithms, monitoring, and model performance tuning
4. Advanced data extraction and processing skills using Python, SQL, and Spark
5. Comfort working with and around a software development team, including Git, AWS, Databricks, and MLflow

Desirable skills and experience

1. Fluent with a command line in a *nix environment
2. Postgraduate qualification in a quantitative field (e.g. Physics, Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Engineering)

Additional Information

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

1. Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
2. The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
3. Casual dress – every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.