Data Analyst

Description

We want to become the #1 in the world at creating and marketing mobile apps. As a company of rational thinkers with big visions, we want our future greatness to rest on robust foundations of truth. This applies to the smallest feature decision for one of our apps all the way up to the most dramatic strategic decisions. To make this happen, we’re looking for a brilliant, business-driven number-cruncher, someone completely obsessed with data and finding reliable answers.

A few examples of the work you’ll be doing:

• Discuss the most pressing product and/or business questions that data can help answer, and then figure out how to find those answers.

• Query and analyse massive sets of usage data to identify product-improvement opportunities and actionable insights to pass on to the product team.

• Create brief, high-quality reports to explain your findings and discuss their implications with the relevant people.

• Screen the app stores and study competitors’ apps in search of insights and ideas we could leverage.

• Study ASO and advertising campaign data in pursuit of optimizing our apps’ exposure to potential new users.

What we offer

• Grow with talented, young colleagues. Our data scientists come from Google and the CERN, our strategist was one of the most outstanding McKinsey consultants in the Nordics. Be surrounded and coached by talented (and nice!) people. We’re 28 years old on average, so you might even end up making new friends!

• No clients, lots of trust. We have no clients to dictate what to do or micromanaging bosses to clip your wings. With no office politics, you’ll be able to just focus on doing a great job.

• Lots. Of. Data. With millions of users, tens of thousands of new users every day, and a large and diverse, ever-growing portfolio of apps, Bending Spoons is the perfect playground for a data junkie (we know you are, we are too).

• Make a difference. We’ll create the best apps possible, your analysis will tell us how to to get the most out of them in their current form and inform future product development so very profoundly. Be in charge of finding patterns and opportunities before our competition does, and see our apps conquer the charts.

• International reach. We sell all over the world, and most of our users are American. Our company language is English. We’re a global reality.

• Unique career opportunity. By joining a fast-growing company that sets out to become the world’s greats within the vast, booming mobile market, you get a special chance to turbo charge your learning and career. Stock options are up for discussion too.

What we look for

• Rock-solid analytical reasoning. You crunch numbers and perform calculations with confidence and accuracy. You read graphs at a glance and see patterns in them. You’re a very quick learner that can investigate and effectively pick up new concepts on your own, especially when it comes to numbers and data.

• You’re very curious and inquisitive. You feel the urge to understand why things are the way they are, and are suspicious of unproven beliefs and assumptions. Finding the truth and explaining it is your crusade.

• You preferably have a number-heavy degree. You studied Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering, ideally at MSc level. This is not required, but a strong plus.

• Moderate IT and spreadsheet skills. You’re savvy enough to smoothly use Google Docs, Google Sheets, and/or Microsoft Excel. Ideally you can run SQL queries. But don’t worry, we’ll teach you all you don’t know.

• Obsession with numbers. You absolutely love to break down and analyze big datasets looking for insights, and then look at the same numbers all over again from another angle to find another way of reading them. You do it so much that you end up knowing your numbers by heart!

• Interest in the topic. You’re very likely to love the job if you find the mobile apps market and its possibilities exciting, and if the idea of understanding user psychology through numbers fascinates you.

• Drive. You’re energetic, hard-working, and persevere through adversity until the job is done, and done well.

• Good communication skills. You can pose questions with clarity, explain your reasoning concisely, pick the right graph to express a message, and create brief, insightful reports with a touch of artistry.

• Conversational English. You read and write well and speak at a conversational level in English.

Commitment & contract: Full-time, permanent (tempo indeterminato).

Location: Milan, Corso Como 15. It’s fine if you prefer to work remotely sometimes (max 20% of the time).

Compensation & benefits: Generous, top of market, and moreover can grow very rapidly, depending on your performance. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are paid-for, when you work from the office. You’ll receive a Mac and iPhone.