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Yahoo! Advertising Marketplaces Group, a division of Yahoo! Inc., offers essential marketing services for companies doing business online. The group's search-based products and tools help businesses connect with highly motivated customers.

The Global Marketplace Operations Team is seeking an experienced data engineer and analyst to define, lead, and participate in projects related to management of the search marketplaces in Europe/

The Marketplace Operations Team is responsible for defining the key measurements, metrics and controls required to understand and influence search monetization. The team has physical locations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and we are seeking a U.S.-based team member to support European Marketplace Operations.

The Marketplace Data Engineer will be a key contributor to deepen understanding of the drivers of marketplace health. This position requires large-scale data acquisition, processing and analysis in conjunction with business model requirements. This person will work closely with the in-market Europe Search Marketplace team to understand business priorities and marketplace issues, and will interface with the U.S. based team on state-of-the-art analysis and insight development. The Marketplace Data Engineer will be responsible to work within the Yahoo! organization to gather relevant metrics to help analyze and influence the overall performance of the Asia marketplaces. Together with the U.S. Marketplace Operations Team, he/she will also drive problem structuring, analysis and the development of solid, action-oriented business recommendations. The Data Engineer will also work closely with the Product, Sciences, and Engineering teams to ensure successful execution of recommendations and decisions to improve marketplace optimization and performance.

This position is ideally suited for an individual with experience performing in-depth analysis of large-scale data to develop high-impact business recommendations inferences from the results. The successful candidate will possess cutting-edge data and problem-solving abilities, strong relationship and communication skills, demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in an organization, excellent business judgment, and an understanding of the search and online advertising product space.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drive development of a deep understanding of factors that impact Marketplace health and performance across the Yahoo! network.
• Apply and leverage data model and mining techniques to guide business modeling, marketplace initiatives
• Develop and track key metrics that represent the economic health indicators for Yahoo! Marketplaces.
• Lead analysis to deepen understanding of marketplace drivers, and to develop recommendations to positively influence the economic health and quality of the marketplaces.
• Work cross-functionally with the finance, business operations, sciences, product and engineering teams to gather input and inform understanding of marketplace dynamics.
• Participate in and/or lead cross-functional efforts, including defining projects and leading them from start to completion
• Work with the global in-market teams to coordinate marketplace analysis and management.

• Minimum of 3 years of practical work experience in a job requiring rigorous analytic skills, data-driven decision-making, and project management.
• MS/Ph.D. in statistics, econometrics, applied computer science, engineering
• Strong problem definition, solving, and analytical skills. Excellent business judgment, logic and reasoning.
• Familiarity with database systems & data manipulation (e.g. SQL, MySQL, Access, Perl, Oracle)
• Familiarity with Data mining and Analytics (e.g. SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS)
• Ability to see the big picture while effectively managing details.
• Able to work cross-functionally at all levels of an organization, both leading and participating in cross-functional teams, reaching consensus and developing recommendations.
• Experience working with and communicating to senior management
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and execute on successful project delivery under tight timelines.
• High energy level and strong commitment to driving results
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• International work experience and/or familiarity in working in a multi-national team work environment is preferred.
• Ability to speak one or more of the following languages is a plus: French, German, Italian, Spanish.
• Strong domain knowledge including experience in paid search or on-line marketing is a plus.

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