Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a seasoned data scientist to join the Contributors team.Data Scientists at the Wikimedia Foundation are key members of the product team who are the experts within the organization at measuring what is going on. Their analysis and insight help product analysts and managers envision, scope, and refine features, products, and services that are used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
You will join the Contributors team, where we build collaborative, inclusive tools for creating and editing free knowledge.
Responsibilities
Work closely with product managers to build out and maintain detailed on-going analysis of the team’s products, their usage patterns, and performance.
Write database queries and code to analyze Wikipedia usage volume, user behaviour, and performance data to identify opportunities and areas for improvement.
Run and analyze controlled experiments in order to inform product development.
Maintain and expand the team’s dashboards, ensuring they are up-to-date, accurate, fair and focused representations of the efficacy of the products.
Support product managers by rapidly surfacing positive and adverse data trends, and ad hoc analysis support as needed.
Communicate your findings clearly and responsively to a range of team, organisational, volunteer and public stakeholders, informing and educating them.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in related work experience
Experience with using analytics infrastructure to extract patterns from large datasets
Experience supporting organisational teams with situational awareness and bespoke fact-finding data
Proficiency with SQL and either R or Python.
Strong eye for detail and a passion for quickly delivering results for rapid action.
Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment
Demonstrated judgment skills to find solutions
Good written and verbal communication skills
Pluses
Experience working in an agile software development environment
Experience working with advanced analytics tools like Hive, Jupyter, and Bayesian statistics Experience with qualitative research methodologies such as user research or grounded theory
Familiarity with Wikipedia processes and workflows
Passion for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
Fluency in languages other than English
Understanding of free culture, free software, and open source principles
We would love to see your work — please provide URIs to any existing open source software work or research code you may have done (own software or patches to other packages) if possible when you apply. We’d really like to see what you can do!
Benefits & Perks *
Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing educationand much more
The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
Flexible and generous time off – vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays – including the last week of the year.
Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
For those emergency moments – long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
Great colleagues – diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people
for benefits eligible staff, benefits may vary by location
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