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Data & Analytics
Permanent - Full Time
Location: Glasgow, Salford, or London (This is a hybrid role)
Job Reference: 21362
Band: D
Salary: Up to £63,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent role
Role is mapped to Senior Data Analyst on our career path framework.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Excellent career progression and unrivalled training and development opportunities are available.
We have a great opportunity to join the product team on their growth journey.
We are looking for a Data Analyst/Scientist passionate about experimentation to join our team. You will help us drive the experimentation culture across all products at the BBC.
You are confident with statistical analysis, use data to identify problems worth solving, and are capable of designing, deploying, and analysing product experiments.
You will champion experimental design and methodologies, advance the underlying theory and methods, and create tools to speed up analysis.
Main Responsibilities
1. Work closely with product and analytics teams to identify and solve problems through experimentation.
2. Build, validate and help prioritise the roadmap of tests with data & insights.
3. Apply experimental design principles to all briefs.
4. Calculate and communicate baseline conversion rates, sample sizes, MDE, confidence levels, and statistical power to product teams.
5. Monitor and validate data quality in running experiments.
6. Create and communicate experimental findings to product teams and to wider BBC teams.
7. Work with the platforms team to improve the capability of the experimentation platform.
8. Gather, cultivate and research experimentation best practices.
9. Research new methods for experimentation.
10. Create our internal experimentation teaching material.
11. Help the BBC develop procedures for iterating fast while managing risks in a big data environment.
12. Build networks and communities around data informed product development.
13. Advocate the role of experimentation in helping the BBC become a data informed organization.
14. Take an active interest in developing others.
Are you the right candidate?
The successful candidate will have an undergraduate or MSc degree in Statistics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field or equivalent experience. You will have significant practical expertise in experimentation design and analysis methodologies.
Essential skills:
1. Experience in Experimentation / AB Testing / CRO (Conversion Rate Optimisation).
2. Experience analysing large data sets in SQL.
3. Experience in creating visualisations or decks to share results.
4. Experience gained working on digital products and product analytics.
5. Strong communication skills and the ability to explain sophisticated topics in simple terms.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. We care about our values and behaviours.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance.
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