Job Description
Associate EMEA Data Analyst
OVERVIEW
Interested in joining the fastest growing B-2-B company in the world?
Do you love data?
If the answer to both is yes, you could be the person we are looking to join our marketing data science team.
Palo Alto Networks is the fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley and a five-time Gartner Group Magic Quadrant winner for innovation and the ability to execute. Palo Alto Networks has also been named a best place to work by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
We offer fantastic career and financial growth potential, thanks to our game-changing security platform, along with the chance to be part of the critical mission: to prevent cyber breaches and protect our digital way of life. Your chances of getting on board a company with this much growth potential are statistically similar to your chances of being struck by lightning.
We also have the most innovative data science team in the world. We are all about teamwork - we all look out for each other to ensure each others success. Our culture is super dynamic, fun and we all work together to get the job done. We dont follow what others may have done we try to innovate and find new ways of using the data and making an impact on the business.
Palo Alto Networks is a very data driven company. It creates a challenging but at the same time a unique position for the data science team to get into high-level projects that truly help the business to drive its actions based on data insight and data-driven recommendations.
In this role, you would be responsible for supporting our regional data science teams by performing data analysis, database automation, and reporting to help drive our global data science projects and making sure we get them implemented and especially operationalized. Along the way, you will learn data science and data engineering techniques from best-in-class practitioners, enabling you to set your own path in the data world.
In your daily work, you will be working very closely with a regional data scientist and our stakeholders from different teams like IT, Marketing, Sales and collaborating with vendors that we use to deploy our predictive models. You will be working hands-on to create datasets and reports to convey groundbreaking actionable machine learning and predictive models that our team develops to give prescriptive recommendations to our internal clients on how to best drive their business.
We don't stay put, and we want to improve continuously as a team by providing cross-training, professional development at conferences and seminars, as well as sponsor certification in tools like KNIME, Tableau, R, Python, Salesforce or anything that we see valuable for the team.
If you liked what you saw, please apply - wed be happy to meet you!
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Support regional/theatre-level data science projects
Work with our behavioral and intent marketing data sources and help operationalize them.
Work with our selected software vendors to come up with new kinds of solutions for them to ingest our predictive models.
Be innovative Drive to learn new ways to make impact to the business with data
Assist in building and validating groundbreaking machine learning and predictive models for compelling business use cases
Qualifications
Soft Skills
Team player
Excellent communication skills
Self-driven personality
Ability to speak business language
Innovation and ability to execute
Agile methods like SCRUM or Kanban
Business acumen
Marketing knowledge/experience a plus
Database Skills
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Working knowledge of databases.
Data manipulation and transformation skills.
Skills with SQL or Python or other scripting languages.
Analytical thinker with demonstrated data analysis capabilities.
Big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Drill, Pig, etc.) a plus
Data Visualization skills with tools like Tableau, Looker, Qlikview, Spotfire, etc. a plus
Experience with CRM systems likes Salesforce a plus
Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.) a plus.
Marketing Cloud solutions (Adobe, Marketo, etc.) a big plus.
Culture: Energetic, dynamic, startup environment with outstanding career and professional growth opportunities.
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