Bilingual Lead Data / Data Scientist

Company Description

We are Nurun, at the intersection of creativity and technology. We create digital experiences that help brands grow and transform organizations. We are hybrids who organize our work around multidisciplinary collaboration. Our vision: people first, technology second. Always the same ingredients, but never the same recipe: we adapt according to needs to guarantee the excellence of our products.

We are a large group of diverse professionals gathered in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Windsor, British Columbia, and even in Saskatchewan! Who are these professionals? We organize ourselves into teams of experience designers, developers, client partners, project managers, strategists, and business designers (don't worry, we will teach you what this means). Would you like to join us?

Nurun is seeking a bilingual intermediate project manager to join their teams. As a project manager, you will be responsible for leading the design and development of meaningful and intuitive solutions that solve complex problems for our clients and their customers. Join us to explore design concepts as well as to develop and prototype attractive interfaces that generate measurable results.

Job Description

The Lead Data plays a dual role within the agency. 

1. Be the keeper and champion of a data-centered culture at Nurun.
2. Lead mandates and support customers in mandates. 

Practice Leader

• Participate in project estimation;
• Be a technical reference for the teams;
• Contribute to the growth of the team's experts;
• Ensure the quality of deliverables within the agency;
• Participate in the democratization of data within Nurun;
• Ensure adherence to best practices on Nurun's own platforms in strategy, implementation, and analysis phases;
• Stay informed about trends, best practices, and new tools available;
• Help define a vision for data practice within the agency and contribute to evolving the service offering and the tools used to implement it;
• Help Nurun identify opportunities to use various forms of artificial intelligence in its projects;
• Define propositions for our clients in relation to data. 

Mandate Lead in Data Consultation 

• Contribute to performance analysis, measurement goal definition, and performance monitoring in the initial phases of our mandates;
• Recommend and implement best practices for data organization and structure. 
• Set up dashboards and configure visualization tools for our clients. 
• Support the implementation of performance tracking tools such as Piwik and GA4 and use them to analyze the performance of our clients' digital products.
• Help teams use artificial intelligence models in our products. 
• The person hired will be specifically responsible for our performance optimization approach and for supporting a client in the travel industry in a transformation allowing them to leverage data to make better decisions.

Qualifications

• Bilingual: proficiency in French and English.
• At least eight years of professional experience.  
• A Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, business administration, economics, or finance. 
• Comfortable presenting to groups and leading discussions with clients.
• Ability to access various databases and create advanced queries for data analysis. Strong knowledge of SQL, expert knowledge of Python or R 
• Proven experience in machine learning statistics, both in creating and maintaining models, as well as mentoring analysts to find the right methods to solve issues 
• Advanced knowledge of data models, infrastructure, and data architecture. 
• Ability to manage ambiguity, shifting priorities and ability to manage a team and work independently
• Proven expertise related to data quality, knowledge of various cleaning techniques and data integrity checking. 
• Good ability to visualize data in Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, Quicksight, or another data visualization tool from the category. 
• Ability to mix and analyze different data sets to provide clear and precise analyses for different audiences. 
• A good knowledge of Google Analytics 4 is a plus. 
• Experience in the travel industry is a plus.

Additional Information

Why NURUN?

• By nature, Nurun is fundamentally human; from our collaborative culture, to our way of working with our clients, to our empathy towards our clients' customers and our service to them. It is essential that our candidates operate at this level, promoting and enriching our human-centered culture.
• For our work philosophy and entrepreneurial spirit;
• For our project approach based on understanding human needs;
• For the opportunity to work on large-scale digital projects for major clients throughout the world;
• For our competitive offer and broad range of social benefits from the first day;
• For our flexible hybrid working model with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week and the rest remotely, with access to collaborative workspaces;
• For a flexible schedule that truly balances work and personal life;
• For a personalized development plan supported by our continuous learning platforms;
  For rewarding collaboration with passionate and talented experts.