Business Intelligence Specialist

About SmartNews

News should be for everyone. But not when it’s buried under cat videos—or when your internet is spotty—or when it’s in a filter bubble. That’s why we created SmartNews.

Our mission is to discover and deliver quality stories to the world. To accomplish this:

We are a machine learning company. News should be impartial, trending and trustworthy. Our algorithms evaluate millions of articles, social signals and human interactions to deliver the top 0.01% of stories that matter most, right now.

We love content. News should be sustainable. We support quality journalism and respect publishers by sharing article traffic and revenue.

Please note that we will only consider you for one application at a time.

Position

Founded in Tokyo in 2012, SmartNews has quickly become the go-to source of news for millions of users around the world, and a leading news aggregation mobile app. Our mission is bigger than simply aggregating news, we are working to break through the filter bubble and deliver the world’s quality information to the people who need it.

We have big problems and challenges to solve in order to achieve our mission. We are looking for someone with an insatiable curiosity to deeply understand user experiences and content consumption, and a passion to build a world-class, data-driven product. As a Business Intelligence (BI) analyst, you will be in charge of managing all SmartNews data for all regular key reporting. You will be partnering with Data Engineers to build the fundamental data solutions by designing customer friendly dashboards, reporting structures, data models and schemas, as well as data warehouse architecture to facilitate the data-driven decision-making process at SmartNews.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with data scientists, data engineers, business members, and product managers, who are improving our product and customer satisfaction in a data-driven way
• Own and lead the design and implementation of dashboards end to end based on deep understanding of user requirements
• Surface metrics and data insights via dashboards and reports for both internal and external use
• Cooperate with data scientists and product managers to define KPIs and share them across the company
• Own dashboarding tools and ensure they are being used in an efficient and organized way across the company
• Own and improve data pipelines that feed into dashboards and reports (while cooperating with data engineers)
• Execute ad hoc data pulls as an SQL expert

Your qualification

Minimum qualifications:

• 2+ years experience with databases and dashboarding tools
• SQL experience in enterprise (Medium Level, including experience writing complex queries)
• Communication skills to define requirements, to improve from feedback, to tell stories using dashboards, and to provide actionable insights
• Business Level Japanese
• Reading/writing in English

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience related to mobile apps or websites
• Experience with data workflow tools like Azkaban or Airflow
• Programming experience (Python, R, Java, etc.), and experience with Linux
• Advanced data visualization skills and experience

What we offer

• SmartKitchen - Healthy lunch on a daily basis for free
• ChikyuCoffee - Delicious coffee provided by our Barista every day
• Various social insurance benefits included