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About the Role
As a Data Scientist on the Ads team, your mission is to drive ad product evolution through end-to-end decision science. Working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Business partners in a fast-paced environment, you will own projects from inception to execution—turning high-level strategy into precise data representations, conducting rigorous analysis, and communicating high-impact insights that guide critical business choices.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Business stakeholders across JP and US teams to translate high-level ad strategy into precise hypotheses and analytical frameworks.
- Perform exploratory analysis and impact-size estimation on ad ecosystem data to discover high-value opportunities that balance ad revenue with core user experience.
- Lead end-to-end A/B testing and quasi-experimental evaluations (including causal inference for non-testable features) to measure product performance and user impact.
- Design domain-specific analytical data pipelines, key performance metrics, and self-serve dashboards that empower partner teams to easily leverage ad data.
- Synthesize complex data into actionable, executive-ready insights that guide ad product roadmaps and commercial execution.
Requirements
- Advanced level SQL (Trino, hive, rds, etc.)
- Programming languages used for data analysis (Python, R, etc.)
- Prior experience working as an analytics lead with cross functional partners such as product/eng/sales.
- Solid knowledge of online experiment and statistical modeling
- Business or higher English
- Familiarity with online advertisement / marketing domain
- Conversational or higher Japanese (JLPT N2 certification)
- Understanding of data engineering system (e.g. data warehousing, using data workflow tools like Airflow or dbt)
- Advanced knowledge on causal inference and mathematical modeling
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- R
- A/B testing
- Causal inference
- Statistical modeling
- Data warehousing
- Airflow
- dbt
Location
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Analytics lead experience
Education Level
- Advanced degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or analytical field
Benefits
- All healthcare and social insurance required by the Japanese labor law, plus annual health check
- Visa sponsorship and overseas relocation support available for eligible candidates
About the Company
- SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it.
- Thanks to our unique machine-learning technology and relationships with more than 3,000 global publisher partners, we provide news that matters to millions of users.
- Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, SmartNews also has offices in Osaka (Kansai Office), Palo Alto, New York and Singapore.