Senior Data Analyst / シニアデータアナリスト - US App

This position requires English language ability. JD is available in English only. 本ポジションは日本語JDの用意がありません。

IntroductionCirculate all forms of value to unleash the potential in all people

"What can I do to help society thrive with the finite resources we have?" The Mercari marketplace app was born in 2013 out of this thought by our founder Shintaro Yamada as he traveled the world. We believe that by circulating all forms of value, not just physical things and money, we can create opportunities for anyone to realize their dreams and contribute to society and the people around them. Mercari aims to use technology to connect people all over the world and create a world where anyone can unleash their potential.For more information about Mercari Group’s mission, see .

Equal Opportunity Hiring

Here at Mercari, we work to realize a world in which no one’s potential is limited by their background and everyone has the opportunity to freely create value. We also firmly believe that a mindset of Inclusion & Diversity is essential for us to achieve our mission.This, of course, extends to our hiring practices as well.

Mercari is committed to eliminating discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, physical disability, and other such factors so that anyone who shares our mission and values can join us, regardless of their background. For more details, please read our .

Team’s Mission / Work Responsibilities

Team mission: Enable the business to make data-informed decisions by translating data into insights and insights into actionable recommendations. 

(Learn more about Mercari's mission and values .)

Specific work responsibilities include the following:

• BI Foundations: Develop and maintain the data tooling that enables decisions
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to:
• Maintain Mercari’s data pipelines and tooling
• Ensure tables are correct and up-to-date at all times
• Help maintain data integrity and data relevance. Clean old data, etc.
• Ownership of certain assets such as Looker.
• Maintain dashboards for key business metrics and communicate to external stakeholders on a regular basis.
• BI Operations: Manage day-to-day experimentation set up, review and implementation
• Define a common framework for product and marketing experimentation across Mercari (as necessary). 
• Support new experiments:
• Quantify their potential business impact 
• Define the relevant metrics to test
• Set up the data pipelines and monitoring
• Analyze the A/B test results and summarize the impact
• Own event tagging/tracking for new and old features
• BI Insights: Provide deep, high-quality business recommendations to drive impact
• [Project analysis] Track and analyze periodic long-term impact of launched projects
• [Platform analysis] Analyze platform-level performance, develop insights and provide specific biz recommendations
• [User analysis] Analyze user behavior trends and use it to improve business performance
• Identify new opportunities through data mining and translate them into crisp, actionable business recommendations

Unique and Bold Challenges

• Be a part of the strategic intelligence to win the US market: You will be part of the team to plan and execute the strategy to win the US market with the Mercari US service. We are looking for a candidate who is excited to tailor the prior experiences and knowledge to the situation of our business, while being open to quickly unlearn and adapt to the new environment for the success of the company.
• Make cross functional collaborations, a lot of them: You will have the opportunities to work cross functionally and extensively across many projects. You will use your excellent communication skills as well as the willingness to extend your responsibilities when necessary to achieve the results.
• Apply creative thinking in the use of extensive data sets, especially the unique combination of BI + FP&A capabilities: With the FP&A in the same organizational structure, you will have access to most of the data sets to tackle important business problems. Having creative mindsets as well as utilizing strategic thinking is the key to driving the results.
• Create a new foundation of the team: You will have the opportunities to be part of the conversation to update the policy as well as the operating system of the team.
  

Required Qualifications

• Shared belief in the mission and values of Mercari Group and its various companies
• Passion for creating new business opportunities
• 5+ years of practical experience with data analysis aimed at solving business- and user-related issues
• Experience analyzing data using SQL or another programming language
• Knowledge and skills to perform basic data operations in SQL (we will have you submit a data operations assignment using SQL during the selection process)
• Basic understanding of statistics
• Experience working with product managers to improve a service
• Deep understanding of Mercari’s products and ability to proactively suggest ideas for improvement
• Experience in hypothesis testing flows that involve designing and executing A/B tests
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience analyzing C2C market data and e-commerce businesses, and a basic understanding of KPIs and how businesses are structured
• Experience in project management and team management
• Knowledge regarding the product development cycle
• Experience creating a growth model for a business or service and setting KPI targets
• Experience performing analysis for a marketing or advertising business
• Experience in practical application of statistical analyses conducted via Python, R, etc. (hypothesis testing, regression analysis, causal inference)
  

Screening Criteria

• Able to establish hypotheses tailored to specific issues and consider these hypotheses logically
• Able to explain technical concepts in simple terms
• Able to think about issues facing the service from a user perspective
• Able to focus on business impact when solving issues
• Able to demonstrate a shared belief in the company’s mission and values
• Able to explain their reason for choosing Mercari and where they would like their career to go next

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Technical Assessment Criteria

• Able to establish hypotheses tailored to specific issues and consider these hypotheses logically
• Able to explain technical concepts in simple terms
• Able to think about issues facing the service from a user perspective
• Able to focus on business impact when solving issues
• Able to demonstrate a shared belief in the company’s mission and values
• Able to explain their reason for choosing Mercari and where they would like their career to go next

Language Requirements

• Either of the following is required:
• English: C1 required
• Japanese: C1 preferred

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Working ConditionsEmployment Status

Full-time

• Probationary period: First 3 months after joining the company. (During this period your contract conditions will be the same as that of a permanent employee.)

Office

Roppongi

• Smoking is prohibited within our offices
• Mercari has introduced a work style policy called “.” Each member is free to choose whether they want to work in the office or work fully remote. *Exceptions made for certain kinds of work.

Work Hours

• Full flextime (no “core time” or “flex time”)
  *Does not apply to all positions

Holidays

• Two days off per week (as well as national holidays, New Year's break, etc.)
• Paid leave, congratulatory and bereavement leave, relax days, sick leave

Salary

• Annual salary paid in 12 monthly installments (including fixed overtime allowance)
• Based on skills, experience, and abilities
• Reviewed twice a year
  

Benefits

• Complete health and social insurance
• Incentive program
• Support systems, including those that benefit the employee’s family members
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Support

• Relocation support
• Language learning support
• Translation/interpretation support
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