Data Scientists for KSF Media in Helsinki

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Sami Kallinen

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Nov 30, 2016, 9:39:41 AM11/30/16
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KSF Media is a publisher of newspapers with titles that have been around for more than 150 years. Our five newspapers are national, regional and local. Four of them are published in Swedish, the minority language of Finland. Hufvudstadsbladet is our best known brand https://www.hbl.fi. All of our newspaper titles have their corresponding digital brands. Furthermore our portfolio includes brands such as the blogging platform Ratata, the learning app Faktapp plus a few more.


Our digital operations are constantly growing and we are therefore looking for two full stack developers and two data scientists. The developers will be working with our products as well as ad tech. The data scientists will work on improving our products, optimizing operations and develop new revenue sources based on data. Media companies have data that is unique compared to many other industries. All jobs are full time.



library(ggplot2)

data <- data.frame(x = 200 + -1:-200, y = jitter(1/1:200, amount = 0.1))
ggplot(data, aes(x,y)) + 
  geom_line() + 
  geom_vline(xintercept = 185, color = "red", linetype = "dashed" ) + 
  xlab("Life Choices Over time") + 
  ylab("Life Success + Happiness") + 
  geom_text(aes(155, 0.9, label = "Joined KSF Media", vjust = -1), size = 4) + 
  labs(title = "Typical Result of Joining KSF Media According to Science")

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

- Knowledge of statistical analysis tools (e.g. R, Python, etc.)

- Ability to work independently paired with strong interpersonal skills

- Fluent in Swedish or English

Nice to have

- Experience with Java, Scala, PHP, tools from Hadoop ecosystem, Spark, Javascript, d3, React JS, Riot JS, and Git workflow

- Expertise in pattern recognition, machine learning or predictive analytics

- Experience in web analytics and ad tech

- Experience of working with content and media behaviour datasets

- Experience in data enginering and dev ops

Key responsibilities

- Leverage customer, content and media behavioural datasets in novel ways to derive insights, improve products and solve real problems within the field of media

- Design new tools and tracking systems for analysis, learning and prediction

- Take a leading role in reviewing and transforming workflows to make them increasingly data-driven

- Coach and mentor team members that are eagerly learning data science and engineering


What we offer

- Unique perspective to a classic industry that is being disrupted quickly  

- The opportunity to work for a classic media brand in Finland

- An amazing office location. Could not be more central in Helsinki  

- Indoor walking route straight from the Espoo busses or metro to the office. Slipperproof. Even during winter


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Contact Sami Kallinen at sami.kallinen (at) ksfmedia.fi or DM at @sakalli
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