Senior Data Analyst

VSCO® is an art and technology company empowering and inspiring people everywhere to create, discover, and connect. Founded in 2011, VSCO is based in Oakland, CA, and is the parent company to Denver-based printing outpost, Artifact Uprising.

VSCO is looking for a Senior Data Science Analyst to take our data practice to the next level. You will work with our Director of Data Science on building our data model with industry best practice, extracting insights to influence the product roadmap, and building models describing user behavior or content performance. You will take a leading role in defining how we do data at VSCO, scope out projects, propose approaches, and drive them to completion.

* Build our Data Model for user behavior, marketing analytics, and content analytics using best practices on Hadoop or Redshift, and in collaboration with our Data Engineering team * Guide the instrumentation, testing, and analysis of new features in collaboration with the Product Team * Mine user data to uncover the drivers of user engagement and propose new actions * Analyze content performance to inform content creation and recommendation * Build ad hoc reports and visualization to help teams measure the performance of their business units * Help grow the data analytics team

* Bachelor or Master’s degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Economics * 2+ years of relevant work experience in the consumer app space * Demonstrated experience extracting, manipulating, and analyzing complex data using SQL and R or Python * Good understanding of ETL and data pipelines; Hands-on experience cleaning and aggregating large data sets for analysis and visualization (SQL/MapReduce) * Deep understanding and working knowledge of statistical analysis techniques such as hypothesis testing and regression analysis **Nice to have** * Experience writing ETL and data manipulation scripts in MapReduce, Hive, or Spark * A deep appreciation for photography and the visual arts