Manager - Strategic Initiatives - Internet/Online

NewsHunt is one of the top News applications in the world. We have been in the top 10 applications in India for smartphone and category no 1 in all app stores. With it's Unique Regional language focus and approach approach, having over 100 newspapers from India in 11 languages, the application which is available for all devices, and has been downloaded by over 70 Million customers who do over 2 Billion PageViews monthly - making it one of the largest mobile destinations for the Indian customer. NewsHunt had launched e-Books in November - 13 & we currently offer e-Books in English and eight Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali & Kannada

Are you someone who is passionate about innovation, solving customer needs and driving the strategy for a business- Are you an entrepreneur at heart and want to make a difference and gain more operational experience- Are you interested in developing a strong understanding of what drives the business of one of the most exciting companies in India-

We are looking for multiple positions with the following description:

Position : Manager - Strategic Initiatives

Responsibilities:

- You will work closely with business leaders, product managers, subject matter experts to design/define, measure and track suitable metrics for efficiency and effectiveness of business

- Influence product roadmap for website and mobile through high quality digital analytical insights and recommendations

- Drive customer conversions and increase customer delight via system interventions designed based on data driven insights

- You will be responsible for modeling complex problems and processes using various analytical tools and methods

Skills and capabilities:

- Excellent analytical abilities: Data driven and understanding of key analytical techniques

- Hands on: Web analytics tools (Omniture,Localytics, MixPanel, GA, Flurry, etc), Excel

- Exposure R, SAS, SQL and Excel is preferred.

- Experience of quantifying impact of product features for sales conversion improvement, A/B testing, attribution modeling, campaign analysis etc.

- Champion of user behavior understanding on digital platforms (website, mobile applications etc.)

Preferred:

- Exposure to Big Data platforms and tools (HDFS, Hive, Pig etc) is preferred but not mandatory

- Candidate having experience of Statistical modeling experience in techniques like regression, clustering, segmentation, time series