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Sony's R&D Center already have teams and assets in the data science domain and have

been applying to various business domains of Sony (e.g. finance). Looking at Sony's

India business, Sony Pictures Network in India have quite large amount of user

behavior data and huge opportunities of growth.

Key Responsibilities

Together with the team's data scientist or research engineers, apply Sony Research

Center's internal research assets and/or technologies on market and OSS, to address

Sony's various business pain points and propose technical or business level solutions.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing and defining business problems
• Defining rough technology and system requirement to solve the problems
• Planning of business action to solve/improve the problems using results of data analytics
• Defining business goals, KGIs, KPIs
• Defining workflow and decision making process
• Defining/designing a rough data flow of whole systems
• Collection , learn/predict, application, operation
• Reporting effectiveness of data analytics systems for business people
• Hiring of adequate scientists / research engineers to suit the domain needs
• Developing data driven culture in team

Interlinkage:

Need to work together with:

• Sony R&D Center Tokyo, US , Europe, etc
• SPN India
• Other Sony development team in India, Japan and US

Work Location:

• Mumbai or Bangalore, India
• May need to stay for a few weeks in Tokyo / US

Essential Education / Qualifications / Experience:

• 10 years of total experience of which at least 5 years in one or more of following or equivalent experience:
• More than TWO professional experience on leading data analytic and executing of creation and proposal of technical / business proof of concept.
• Professional experience with requirement definition and operation of data analytics projects
• Good knowledge on data analytics technologies and basic statistics
• Good knowledge on BI tools and its usage

Preferred Qualifications / Experience:

One or more of following or equivalent experience:

• Professional experience with designing a data flow
• Academic basis in the domain of data analytics
• Master degree of Business Administration

Critical Success Factors:

• Strong will to contribute Sony’s entertainment business with technologies
• Good communication skills with engineer side (data scientists, machine learning engineers, system engineers etc.) and business side(business planner, marketer, sales etc.
• Positive attitude and genuine enthusiasm for data driven business process

Apply at RDCIndia.Opportunities@sony.com

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