Data Scientist - Experimentation

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

The Role  

Working with highly motivated product teams and reporting within a dedicated team of Experimentation data scientists, you will be responsible for understanding the value drivers of our key global services/products, assessing their performance, and identifying improvement opportunities through rigorous analysis and the design, execution and interpretation of experiments. 

The ideal candidate has a strong grasp of statistical concepts and experimental design and can succinctly explain those concepts to non-technical audiences. You are comfortable working with large, complex datasets and analytical tools, and partnering with engineering and platform teams to ensure experiments are reliably measured within our best-in-class experimentation platform. You collaborate closely across functions to deliver trustworthy, actionable insights that help teams make evidence-based decisions. 

Equally, you are comfortable operating in ambiguous situations and can determine and apply appropriate analytical and experimental techniques to solve problems. 

As the leading employment marketplace in APAC, we believe we offer a unique value proposition to purpose-driven candidates for a role of this nature: the product innovation and marketplace improvements that you help SEEK to measure and evaluate will translate to millions of additional people finding jobs that they otherwise may not have found. We believe few other companies offer the opportunity to make such a tangible and positive difference at this scale. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Understanding Service/Product value drivers  

• Develop knowledge of use cases, user behaviours & segmentation and service mechanics (algorithms and models) across our SEEK Group partner sites and countries  

• Run experiments and support the improvement of the experiment framework  

• Work with guidance from senior colleagues to devise techniques and frameworks to ensure automated algorithms optimisation (multi-arm bandits and similar)  

• Assist in driving continuous improvement of experimentation framework in scale, languages, speed of experiment and quality of insight by choosing appropriate techniques (A/B testing, interleaving, Bayesian methods)  

• Work with engineers to improve and automate data collection and testing framework  

• Analyse experiments and drive product improvement  

• Design experiments that appropriately address hypotheses and will lead to trustworthy learning. 

• Test hypotheses and analyse results, segmenting where required to surface insights from experiments  

• Articulate findings and communicate recommendations back to the senior team and business stakeholders  

The Team  

You’ll report to SEEK’s Head of Experimentation and collaborate daily with: 

• Peers: Product Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Analysts 

• Key Partners: AI Platform Services, Product Analytics, Product Management 

Together, you’ll continue building SEEK’s evolving SEEK’s experimentation capabilities — enabling faster, more confident decision-making across the business. 

You are autonomous, intellectually curious and intrinsically motivated to solve ambiguous problems and drive to an outcome. You love a challenge, and appreciate working with smart, motivated peers to make an impact.  

• Background in Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, Econometrics or a discipline that makes substantial use of these disciplines. (e.g. Bioinformatics). 

• Experience with data pipeline technologies, demonstrating the ability to design, implement, and maintain efficient and scalable data processing workflows. 

• Strong Python and SQL skills are required, along with exposure to Databricks, PySpark, Airflow, and Kubernetes. 

• Foundational knowledge of hypothesis testing and associated statistical techniques. 

• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Developing (or demonstrating) the ability to translate and present data in a concise and meaningful way to stakeholders. 

• Proven ability to independently work with various stakeholder groups – data science, engineering, business stakeholders. 

Additional information 

Influencing and interpersonal skills  

• Excellent organisational skills, including the use of Agile practices  

• An ability and motivation to ‘pitch in’ and do what needs to be done to get the right outcome in a small team 

 

Permanent Perks

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.