Associate Analyst, Activation

Job Description

Job Title: Associate Analyst, ActivationLocation: Reston, VA or Remote

Per Executive Order 14042, new or prospective Comscore, Inc. employees in the United States, must provide proof of complete vaccination, or approved exemption on the first day of their employment.

About this Role:

The Analytics team at Comscore plays an important role within the Activation pillar and sits at the intersection of Product, Technology and Innovation. An Analyst on this team will have end-to-end understanding and involvement in the product including: developing metadata and vocabularies that aid the automatic classification of content, normalizing data, evaluating statistical models and integrating with ad-tech partners.

What You’ll Do:

• Analyze and interpret patterns from web traffic using statistical techniques/command line tools
• Build audience segments taking recentcy, data availability and accuracy into consideration
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams on ideas to enhance content categorization
• Determine misclassifications and gaps in data coverage; identify contributing causes and help identify ways to resolve them to increase precision/recall
• Engage with statistics or data science teams to define desired outcome, prepare datasets and review performance of resulting modeled data
• Manipulate outgoing data for partners into specific formats and normalize incoming data

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, statistics or a related technical discipline
• 2 years professional experience in a data analyst, QA or similar role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Strong problem solving and conceptual thinking abilities with attention to detail
• Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
• Comfortable in technical environments and happy to learn new systems as needed
• Honed time management skills and demonstrated success in handling multiple, sometimes conflicting priorities
• Ability to balance quick decision-making with attention to quality and accuracy
• Familiarity with information precision/recall concepts
• Solid experience with Linux command line tools, SQL, Python, and spreadsheets / pivot tables
• First hand use of data warehouse environments such as SQL Server, Spark or Redshift
• Experience in Jenkins and Jira is a plus
• Experience with BI tool such as Tableau, Power BI or Grafana is a plus

About Comscore:

At Comscore, we’re pioneering the future of cross-platform media measurement, arming organizations with the insights they need to make decisions with confidence. Central to this aim are our people who work together to simplify the complex on behalf of our clients & partners. Though our roles and skills are varied, we’re united by our commitment to five underlying values: Integrity, Velocity, Accountability, Teamwork, and Servant Leadership. If you’re motivated by big challenges and interested in helping some of the largest and most important media properties and brands navigate the future of media, we’d love to hear from you.

Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With a data footprint that combines digital, linear TV, over-the-top and theatrical viewership intelligence with advanced audience insights, Comscore allows media buyers and sellers to quantify their multiscreen behavior and make business decisions with confidence. A proven leader in measuring digital and set-top box audiences and advertising at scale, Comscore is the industry’s emerging, third-party source for reliable and comprehensive cross-platform measurement. To learn more about Comscore, please visit Comscore.com.

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