Data & Analytics
Permanent - Full Time
Location: Glasgow, Salford or London (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)
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 – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
THE ROLE
We have a great opportunity to join the product team on their growth journey. Whether they are looking to improve engagement in iPlayer or Sounds or to improve recommendations in News or Sport app, experimentation helps us make the right decisions for our users.
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, already use data to identify problems most worth solving for product teams, are capable of designing, deploying and analysing product experiments. You will join a diverse group of highly skilled data analysts, experimentation specialists and product teams that are passionate about driving innovation through scaling experimentation.
You will champion experimental design and methodologies to the rest of the BBC, advance the underlying theory and methods we use, work within the platform to create tools to speed up analysis, as well as find new ways of applying experimentation in a machine learning setting. Above all, you will play a pivotal role in driving the experimentation culture throughout the company.
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. A community builder, you 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 have equivalent demonstrable experience. You will have significant practical expertise in experimentation design and analysis methodologies, have a solid foundation in causal inference methodology and how to identify causal effects. You will have experience with proactively building relationships across organizational boundaries and with multiple stakeholders.
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 with knowledge of statistical methodologies for analysis.
5. Strong communication skills and can 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 don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
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. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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