Analyst-Developer in Direct

Yandex Direct is a unified platform for placing contextual and display advertising, enabling the construction of sales funnels and solving marketing tasks at all its levels and for all types of businesses. Direct is seeing not only new and complex features but entire new advertising directions. Our goal is to make the product convenient and effective for the user.

What tasks await you

Data Integration You will immerse yourself in the product and work with various data, including business and product DWHs, interface logs, logs from numerous advertising services. You will automate data processing and integration processes, which will become sources of knowledge about the product.

Research You will conduct pre-project analysis of new opportunities, research how user experience affects advertising effectiveness, search for insights in data that affect key product and business metrics.

Product Development You will participate in the design, analysis, and interpretation of complex experiments to test hypotheses about which changes in advertising products improve them, and will be able to see how your analytics helps deliver value to users.

More about analytics at Yandex — in the channel Yandex for Analytics

We expect you

• Have a higher education in mathematics, natural sciences, or economics, know mathematics and the basics of statistics
• Are proficient in one of the SQL dialects, have worked with databases
• Are proficient in Python/R, know tools for working with data
• Are willing to master new technologies and subject areas
• Are proactive and results-oriented
• Can formalize requirements, clearly and comprehensibly describe the research conducted, visualize data, and draw concise conclusions
• Know how to interact with colleagues and work in a team

Will be a plus

• Have worked with BI systems (DataLens, Tableau, Looker, Power BI)
• Have worked with Airflow, Luigi, or their analogues for building computational pipelines
• Have worked with large volumes of data and MapReduce
• Understand advertising technologies
• Know the basics of machine learning (CatBoost, Scikit-learn)
• Are familiar with VCS (Git, SVN)