Zalo

Flemington Tower, 182 Le Dai Hanh, TP Hồ Chí Minh

Company Size : 100-499

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Job Summary

100-499

Product

Việt Nam

Lead Data Scientist

Zalo

Quận 11, TP Hồ Chí Minh

  • English
  • Team Leader/Supervisor
  • Full Time
  • Negotiable
  • Posted:10/09/2020
  • 1

Job description

Overview of job

We are looking for Lead Data Scientist (also open for level Senior if suitable) focuses on data analytics for Zalo.

As a mainstream communication platform, Zalo makes it easier to meaningfully connect people, from family to friends to work. As a Data Scientist working on Zalo product, you have a chance to make a positive impact on more than 50M users by leveraging the power of our data. Specifically, this role focuses on data analytics to understand our users, find actionable insights, working closely with Product team to help build relevant and effective features.

  • Design and build metrics to measure the health of the product features and the whole ecosystem and collaborate with Product team on performance management;
  • Evaluate and ensure the correctness of data sources, build data products and pipelines to streamline our work and serve business purposes;
  • Take charge of setting up and analyzing A/B testing to measure the performance of product launches and operations;
  • Perform analyses to understand user behaviors and find actionable insights for current and future data-focused innovation. This can involve a host of different techniques such as user profiling, graph analysis, predictive modeling;
  • Mentor more junior team members. The Lead role also involves team management and setting directions for team.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Competitive salary package with 13th salary, annual performance-based bonus, and monthly lunch allowance

• Premium health care options for employees and their family

• Flexible working time and 14 days of paid annual leave

• Frequent events and activities: team building trip, monthly feast, social clubs, Zalo Birthday Celebration and New Year Party

• Top-class facilities: in-house canteen, 24/7 parking, fitness center, free-flow snacks & beverages, and shuttle bus

• Plus many other attractive benefits. Contact for the full Zalo Employee Benefit Program.

Job Requirement

Your Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor or higher in Computer Science, Statistics or a related field;
  • Fluency in the languages of data manipulation (e.g., SQL) and statistical analysis (e.g., R or Python);
  • Knowledge of Hadoop programming environments (e.g. Spark);
  • 2+ years relevant work experience with large amounts of real data, preferably experience with building and maintaining scalable data pipelines;
  • Understanding of applied statistics including sampling approaches, causal modeling and data mining techniques;
  • Experience with the domain of online consumer product or marketing is a plus;
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills, storytelling with data, e.g., ability to communicate data science concepts and analysis results to both technical and non-technical audience;

Other requirements:

  • Ability to translate business objectives into actionable analyses;
  • Proactive thinking and ability to work independently while being a strong team player;
  • Open-minded and excited to learn new things. Have strong opinions but willing to change with new data;
  • We hope you will fit well with our team’s culture:
  • Strong work ethic: All of us believe in our work’s ability to change Vietnamese lives and consequently work hard, work smart;
  • Good team member: We care and watch out for each other. We’re humble individually and go after big goals together;
  • Flexibility: you should be flexible in your tasks and do whatever is needed, ranging from dirty work like data cleaning to high-level work like system or algorithm design.

Languages

  • Vietnamese

    Speaking: Intermediate - Reading: Intermediate - Writing: Intermediate

Technical Skill

  • Python
  • MS SQL
  • Statistics
  • Algorithm
  • Data Mining
  • Domain
  • Hadoop
  • Apache Spark
  • Golang

COMPETENCES

  • Analytic Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Working Independently
  • Teamwork
  • Hard working
  • Proactive
  • Willing to learn

BUSINESS PROFILE

Zalo is building a communication platform with millions of users.

These users are from Vietnam and Myanmar where people can chat and express themselves, and creating numerous add-on features to make life more convenient.

Our team works hard to ensure Zalo backend and frontend apps' responsiveness and scalability. The system has to be able to store and process a vast amount of transactions and data in real time. Zalo user interface has to be robust in performance and flexibility to integrate various kinds of services.

At Zalo, we always look out for new technologies to improve our products and ourselves. If you are curious and eager to tackle big tech problems, Zalo is the right place for you.