Data Analyst

Responsibilities

About the Team:
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
The DCC Data Science team within Monetization Integrity (MI) is seeking a bright and endlessly curious data expert to help manage huge amounts of unstructued and structured data, in order to turn this content into business insights and also prepare it for machine learning.

About the Role:
We expect you to have a strong experience working with unstructured and structured data, to demonstrate clear communication, and to possess a strong desire to execute and best-in-class craftsmanship. You will spend part of your time on technical work and the other part collaborating cross-functionally with partners in product and engineering, to ensure TikTok scales in the most safe and compliant way.

What You’ll Need:
– Proficiency with databases and SQL expertise.
– Experience with large-scale data warehousing architecture and data modeling.
– Expertise with data processing (ETL) technologies is required.
– Experience in one programming language such as Java, Scala, or Python.
– Strong analytical skills.
– Aptitude to independently learn new technologies.
– If need be, act as a Leader to drive big efforts with other data analysts.
What You’ll Do:
– Drive clarity and solve ambiguous, challenging business problems using data-driven approaches. Propose and own data analysis (including modeling, coding, analytics, and experimentation) to drive business insight and facilitate decisions.
– Dig into complex data sets and make sense out of them.
– Translate functional and technical requirements into architecture and design.
– Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.
– Measure business performance, develop core metrics and create dashboards to track and
understand them.
– Identify data, metrics and analyses needs for business partners.
– Initiate, develop and maintain data pipelines and data models that power dashboards and data products with outstanding craftsmanship.
– Perform deep analyses and build models to understand customer behavior, and extract key
insights that impact product decisions.
– Work across multiple subject matter specialists to drive new data initiatives, automation of
reports, establish best practices, and mentor junior members of the team.
– Lead analytics projects to completion.
– Work with the broader Data Science team to discover ways to scale our insights through better systems and automation.

Qualifications

Basic:
– PhD, MS or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or another quantitative field.
– Knowledge of Hadoop related technologies such a s HDFS.
– Experience building high-quality end-to-end data solutions in an agile environment from
requirements to production.
– Be able to proactively handle prioritization of work and deliver work of great quality and to influence the broader team.
– Experience with Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or other business intelligence platforms.
Preferred:
– Experience in technically mentoring junior team members.
– Previous experience working with social media data (unstructured and structured) is a plus.
– Strong communication skills, for example demonstrated through documentation and presentations. Able to present findings to senior management to inform business decisions.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We believe individuals shouldn’t be disadvantaged because of their background or identity, but instead should be considered based on their strengths and experience. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or an accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected].