JOE - August 2011

 
LinkedIn
Product
Data Analytics
Data Scientist
 
Position Title/Short Description
Title: Data Scientist
Section: Full-Time Nonacademic
Location: Mountain View, CA, USA
JEL Classification: 00 -- Default: Any Field
Keywords: econometrics, statistics, behavioral economics, experimental economics, data mining, data science, data scientist, R
Deadline Information: We are hiring now for open positions, so the earlier you can send your application, the better.
Deadline Date: 08/2011
Salary Range: competitive salary + options

JOE ID Number: 201108_395559

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Full Text of JOE Listing:
The Data Analytics team at LinkedIn is hiring economists and other quantitative experts to understand how our users behave on the site, analyze content optimization and monetization strategies, help build new data-driven products, and discover cool data insights that can come only from LinkedIn.

We have an incredible dataset to work with: 100 million professionals have profiles on LinkedIn highlighting their education, companies, skills, and professional connections. That is in addition to how people use the site over time and across different local and national economic events.

What we are looking for:

*Passion for data and using analytical approaches to solve problems
*Creativity: What are the fun, exciting or high-impact problems that we can solve using LinkedIn data?
*Deep intuition for applied econometrics and statistics

Bonus experience:

*Behavioral & experimental economics
*Data mining and machine learning algorithms
*Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP
*SQL, Hadoop, Pig (we will teach you!)

What we can offer you:

*Tremendous career development and growth: you will learn a broad analytical and technical toolkit from some top people in the industry
*Fun, collaborative & stimulating work environment at a data-driven company
*Competitive salary, options
Application Instructions:

Send an email to snicholson@linkedin.com with your CV attached. Optional but encouraged is to include a short note about yourself and why you're interested in LinkedIn.

Email for Applications: snicholson@linkedin.com
Informational URL: http://www.linkedin.com/careers


For more information, email: snicholson@linkedin.com

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