Capacity Planner

Capacity Demand Planner

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or Seattle

Contract: Through December with potential extension

Rate: $90 per hour

The Capacity & Efficiency Management (CEM) organization is looking for a Senior Capacity Demand Planner to join us. In this role you will help to accurately capture all growth drivers that require our infrastructure to scale to meet product and business needs. You will contribute towards building a broad understanding of our consumption of resources across the entire tech stack, identify cost-savings opportunities, and develop simulation models to help drive cost optimization and improve the accuracy of future forecasts.

Role

• Partner closely with platform, technology, and product teams to understand their growth, sources of demand, optimize growth models, identify demand forecasting risks and efficiency opportunities.
• Develop forecasting models and iterate on model refinement to minimize forecasting errors by developing a deeper understanding of how various infrastructure components scale.
• Derive insights from data to identify opportunities for efficiency and resource consumption reduction across the infrastructure.
• Use statistical modeling techniques to develop northstar metrics and KPIs to help provide a more rigorous data-driven approach to manage the infrastructure.
• Develop simulation models for the infrastructure to improve our understanding of the various cost drivers and how to best control them, while managing risk, reliability and availability.
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis, reporting, and build visualizations to communicate findings to Engineering Leadership.
• Present findings to senior leadership to drive business decisions.

Requirements

• 4 years of working experience in either capacity resource forecasting, demand planning, in the tech industry.
• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience.
• Expertise with BI tools such as Tableau.
• Exposure to the infrastructure domain, particularly capacity engineering.
• Ability to use Python and Apache Spark to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.
• Proficiency in languages, technologies and tools like R, SQL, Spark, Hive.
• Excellent communication skills and a track record of broad stakeholder engagement.
• Knowledge of underlying demand models, mathematical foundations of statistics, optimization, resource economics, and analytics.
• Knowledge and experience in time-series forecasting, anomaly detection and building demand models in production.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client

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