At Workday, the business problem is to utilize data along with research insights to influence design, product, and strategic business decisions, and to deliver high quality, timely insights that enable Workday to deliver solutions that help thousands of employees around the world.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in designing experiments using various forms of data.
- 4 or more years of industry experience in Data Science and Analytics.
- 4 or more years of experience in data querying languages (e.g. SQL) and scripting languages (e.g. Python)
- A validated background in statistical modeling and regression analysis.
- Expertise in data cleaning, transformation, and visualization.
- Master’s degree or PhD in Statistics, Economics, Psychology, Applied Math, Physics, Computer Science or other related field.
- 4+ years of industry experience in analytics focused on enhancing products and driving innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to define processes, methods and outcomes for using data science to inform excellent user experience.
- Work with cross functional leaders and individuals to evolve Workday’s experimentation strategy.
- Identify opportunities to use existing data from multiple sources to inform strategy, product improvements and experimentation opportunities.
- Develop models of usage and user behavior through analysis of complex data from a variety of sources.
- Analyze complex data from a variety of sources using diverse set of tools and techniques.
- Play a role in developing and delivering key UX metrics and partner with research to provide actionable insights to improve the user experience.
- Partner with leadership to determine an optimal resourcing plan for a data science team focused on experimentation and user experience.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, applied math, physics, engineering, statistics, economics or related field.
- Ability to communicate analytics results and data storytelling to influence teams and leaders.
- Creative problem solver able to apply first-principles reasoning to solve complex problems.
- Strong communicator with a talent for storytelling, and ability to work well with cross functional partners.
- Spend at least half (50%) of time each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role)
