Associate Statistics Director

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Associate Statistics Director in Advanced Analytics working with applied statistical techniques and AI in a collaborative environment. Responsible for model development and team coaching.

Responsibilities:

  • Working as part of our dynamic Advanced Analytics team using a wide range of applied statistical techniques, AI, and interactive application development approaches to analyze data, visualize results, and interpret findings for business decision support.
  • Collaborate to help project teams design research that overcomes challenges and achieves clients’ business objectives
  • Independently build models/quality check others’ models and associated tools for specific business needs, including design and improvement of models for branded solutions
  • Evaluate new methodologies for their robustness and application; integrate into Adelphi offerings
  • Go-to expert for model application development (R-Shiny, Excel, Visual Basic, Python, PowerBI, etc.)
  • Client-facing member of the proposal/project team for advanced methods presentations, dialogue, application demonstrations
  • Provide input into project design elements to optimize for statistical analysis
  • Lead analytic brainstorming with advanced methods and project teams to solve analytic challenges and create bespoke analysis elements on the fly
  • Go-to coach for advanced methods team coaching on statistics, coding, model/app development

Requirements:

  • Master’s or doctorate degree, or equivalent applied experience
  • Minimum of 6-8 years of experience
  • Broad knowledge of statistical techniques
  • Experience with data manipulation, weighting, sample size calculation and significance testing
  • Proficiency building war gaming/simulation models/interactive dashboards (R-Shiny, Excel, VBA, or other applications)
  • Excellent ability to understand and work with numbers
  • Ability to work to tight client driven deadlines
  • Experience with multivariate statistics (regression, conjoint and discrete choice methods and segmentation)
  • Ability to explain analyses and statistical outputs in terms non-statisticians can understand
  • Proficient in modelling with categorical and ordinal data through the use of multinomial and ordinal regression methods and log-linear and logit methods
  • Proficient integrating survey research with secondary data sources for modelling and data validation purposes
  • Strong experience with advanced methods such as time series forecasting, Structural Equation Models (SEM), Path Analysis, and Partial Least Squares Path Models (PLS PM)
  • Strong experience with hierarchical models, Bayesian approaches, Hidden Markov Models, Latent Class Models, and Monte Carlo methods
  • Strong experience with Machine Learning techniques such as k-means, Gaussian Mixtures, Support Vector Machines (SVM)
  • Exposure to Artificial Neural Nets and Kohonen Maps is a plus
  • Experimental design
  • Knowledge and advanced use of R and at least two of the following: Sawtooth CBC/HB, SPSS, Github, Matlab, Python, XLStat, SAS.

Benefits:

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development