Business Intelligence Specialist

Outbrain is the world’s largest content discovery platform, bringing personalised, relevant online, mobile and video content to audiences while helping publishers understand their audiences through data. Outbrain serves over 190 billion personalised content recommendations every month and reaches over 561 million unique visitors from across the globe.

Outbrain is seeking a highly motivated, self-reliant business intelligence specialist. If you're excited to work on cutting edge, innovative BI, if you’re intrigued by making sense out of exceptionally large amounts of data and defining the way interest, engagement and content are defined and measured, if you want to lead business decisions rather than just validate them – you should apply. As with any Outbrain employee, we're looking for someone who is resourceful, bright, proactive, works well independently and as part of a team, and who will be passionate about what she or he does. For this position we are looking for a seasoned, enthusiastic data mining professional with the ability to self-learn and deliver results; a professional with a strong ability to communicate with both the technical and business sides of the organization.

* Identify patterns and anomalies in the data to lead business decisions * Provide data-driven insights to help shape product, business and marketing direction * Automate processes of large scale data extraction, analysis and visualization in Python or similar scripting language to increase productivity * Develop internal services for tracking global content consumption trends, monitoring competitive landscape and identifying new business and upsell opportunities

* 3+ years of relevant industry experience * BS in quantitative field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Finance); advanced degree preferred * Experience building data mining model to predict behaviors and trends (machine learning experience a plus) * Fluency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Python preferred) * Experience working with large, complex datasets with minimal support * Experience translating business needs to analytical and technical requirements * Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present complex methodologies and findings to non-technical audiences * Experience with Hadoop, Hive or other Big Data technologies a plus * Knowledge of Vertica and Tableau a plus * Leadership or managerial experience a plus * Comfort with front-end development technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) a plus