Analyst, Data Science

About the Role

The Customer Analytics Team at Gap Inc. applies data analysis and machine learning techniques to drive business benefits for Gap Inc. and its brands.  The team’s focus is on creating analytical capabilities to support customer acquisition and retention, personalization and marketing at Gap Inc. Areas of expertise include segmentation, targeting, forecasting, marketing effectiveness measurement and optimizations, customer behaviors, site analytics and business growth initiatives. You will support the team to build and deploy Data and Analytics capabilities, in partnership with GapTech, PDM, Central Marketing & business partners across our brands.

What You'll Do

• Develop software programs, algorithms and automated processes that cleanse, integrate and evaluate large data sets from multiple disparate sources

• Manipulate large amounts of data across a diverse set of subject areas, collaborating with other data scientists and data engineers to prepare data pipelines for various modeling protocols

• Build, validate, and maintain AI (Machine Learning (ML) /Deep learning) models, diagnose and optimize performance and develop statistical models and analysis for ad hoc business focused analysis

• Communicate meaningful, actionable insights from large data and metadata sources to stakeholders

• Develop communication skills to exchange complex information

• Manage projects and program execution within area of specialty and ensures quality of work

Who You Are

• Advanced proficiency in R, Python, Spark, Hive (or other MR), and common scripting languages for E2E pipeline

• Advanced proficiency using SQL for efficient manipulation of large datasets in on prem and cloud distributed computing environments, such as Azure environments

• Experience with ML and classical predictive techniques such as logistic regression, decision trees, nonlinear regressions, ANN/CNN, boosted trees, SVM, Tensorflow, visualization packages, and a track record for creating business impact with these methods

• Ability to work both at a detailed level as well as to summarize findings and extrapolate knowledge to make strong recommendations for change

• Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams and influence product and analytics roadmap, with a demonstrated proficiency in relationship building