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ChoiceStream is currently recruiting for the following positions:
Analytics
Product Development
Professional Services
Analyst
Department: Analytics
Position Summary:
The Analyst will lead the algorithmic design and provide technical direction on the integration and implementation of ChoiceStream’s personalization products for key customers. He/she will work closely with Analytics colleagues and collaborate cross-functionally as an integral member of the Account Management team to understand customer requirements and effectively translate this information to ensure that ChoiceStream products achieve the customers’ business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:
• Create and implement metrics to measure, monitor and improve business value of ChoiceStream products to the customer
• Partner with Account team colleagues to examine product functionality, design models and make recommendations for modifications or enhancements
• Collaborate with Analytics team to analyze consumer behavior data
• Work cross functionally with Product Development team to design and develop algorithms for new product features
• Perform discrete tasks including data preparation and quality assurance, weekly report completion, web logs analysis and model performance tracking
• Data management/exploration to recommender performance assessments/improvements to creative identification and estimation of preference-models and classification-schemes
Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have a creative approach to problem solving, coupled with strong interpersonal skills. Flexibility, comfort with ambiguity and adaptability to changing priorities are also essential for success. Qualifications include:
• Masters degree or Doctorate in Math, Statistics, Economics or related field or equivalent work experience
• Two to four years of post-graduate work experience in a business/corporate setting
• Prior experience or a strong desire to work in a software development environment is preferred
• Successful track record in a customer facing role in a business setting preferred
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to translate technical language to business terms, present information effectively and influence others
• Prior experience with statistical software programs such as STATA, SAS, SPSS, Minitab, MATLAB, WinBUGS or R
• Familiarity with regression model estimation and statistical techniques
• Proficiency in logical, statistical and quantitative reasoning
• Impeccable attention to detail and conscientiousness in completing tasks on time
• Ability to quickly grasp models/frameworks
Software Architect
Department: Product Development
Position Summary:
ChoiceStream is seeking a Software Architect with a strong interest in, and experience with, high volume data analytics. This position will partner with our in place Architect to meet the challenges of powering personalization for the world’s largest retail and media Web sites, including high volume scalability, very large data sets and algorithmic development.
Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:
• Software architecture, in partnership with existing architect. The division of labor is TBD by the 2 architects and VP of Development.
• Collaborate with engineering team on design and implementation of features for high scalability, low latency, algorithmic improvements, front-end display etc.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering team
• Inside our Agile/Scrum process, collaborate with Product Owner to understand customer needs and ensure product architecture will meet those requirements.
• Present technical vision to internal and external customers.
• Hands on technical role, including implementation and site operational tasks.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have:
• 5+ years of SW Architecture experience, including large dataset and high volume experience.
• 10+ years of SW Engineering experience, including startup success.
• Strong familiarity with Web programming languages and technologies.
• Deep experience dealing with large data sets and associated data management/DBMS issues.
• Demonstrated success with high volume, high availability Web services.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• B. Sc. or M. Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.
Senior Implementation Consultant
Department: Professional Services
Functional Overview:
The Professional Services team provides consultative services to ChoiceStream clients and works collaboratively across internal functional areas to ensure the successful implementation of ChoiceStream’s site personalization and online advertising products.
Position Summary:
The Senior Implementation Consultant will work closely with project team members and customers to ensure the successful implementation and optimal integration of the ChoiceStream site personalization product. He/she will serve as the technical lead with the customer and internal colleagues and is responsible for solution design and customer specific configurations of the ChoiceStream API’s and data inputs.
Key Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:
• Participate in customer requirements gathering with a focus on technical aspects (including performance requirements, capacity planning, network architecture, data collection, recommendation presentation, etc.) and articulation of how business requirements can be implemented within the product
• Data Management
• Document data specifications and map customer data to ChoiceStream’s APIs
• Extract, transform and load customer data according to the ChoiceStream product’s specification
• Supervise online and offline data processing
• Web Site Instrumentation
• Design JavaScript integration between customer’s site and ChoicStream’s APIs
• Troubleshoot technical issues and perform any minor custom coding necessary for implementation
• Review and approve documentation for ongoing internal and client reference, training and support
• Summarize and articulate findings and proposed solutions to customers
• Partner with product development to ensure future customer needs are met
Requirements:
The role demands a versatile team player with strong technical experience, interpersonal skills, customer facing comfort and the ability to organize and prioritize tasks and analysis for rapid delivery. Qualifications include:
• 3 to 5 years of professional experience with the requirements gathering, design and build aspects of Internet software implementation and integration
• Strong understanding of HTML, Internet architecture, JSON and XML web services (REST, XML-RPC, SOAP)
• Strong experience programming in JavaScript as well as familiarity with Java
• Experience Extracting, Transforming and Loading customer data
• Experience working as a webmaster and building websites
• Prior experience working in a Linux environment and setting up servers with Apache or Tomcat
• Prior experience writing SQL statements and working with databases
• Experience with a scripting language such as Perl or Python
• Excellent oral/written communication skills, including presentation, facilitation and consultative abilities
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent work experience
• Experience in the retail domain and/or media/entertainment industry is preferred
• Must be willing to travel to client sites up to 15% of time
To apply for any of the above positions, please email your resume to .