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Data Analyst - Merpay

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Python
English: IntermediateJapanese: Fluent

Minimum year of experience: 5

Mercari

Data Analyst

Location: Roppongi
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Style: Flextime (no core or flexible time)
Language Requirement: Japanese (JD available only in Japanese)

Mission

  • Commit to business growth.
  • Understand and act in accordance with these directives:
    • Focus on critical issues, proactively identify them, and re-define as needed.
    • Deliver outputs designed from appropriate issues to facilitate stakeholder decision-making.

Job Description

  • Identify challenges based on quantitative analysis of the Mercari platform.
  • Propose improvements for services and marketing initiatives.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, contribute as a core member to growth strategies, monitor business, and support management by creating business plans.

Unique Challenges

  • Carry out data analysis to support decision-making for fintech businesses such as Merpay, Mercoin, Mercari Mobile, and Mercari NFT.
  • Work closely with product, marketing, and corporate stakeholders; contribute facts from a participant’s perspective to accelerate and enhance the PDCA cycle.
  • Collaborate with other data teams (e.g., Data Engineering, Data Product) on topics like workflow efficiency and democratization of data.

Requirements

Required Experience & Skills

  • Alignment with group mission and values
  • 5+ years' hands-on experience in data analysis at a company with app/web services, or ad platform company experience
  • Proficiency in SQL for data extraction/aggregation
  • Ability to define problems, hypothesize, and independently carry out the analysis cycle (problem → hypothesis → data verification)
  • Ability to communicate valuable outcomes to stakeholders
  • Experience executing projects to improve processes/services in cooperation with other departments

Preferred Experience & Skills

  • Experience measuring effects of marketing or product improvement (including A/B testing)
  • Project/team management experience
  • Data analysis experience using Python or other programming languages
  • Experience in sales planning, KPI management, or business planning/operation
  • Experience streamlining analytical workflows

Language

  • Japanese: Proficient (CEFR – C1) Required
  • English: Independent (CEFR – B1) Welcomed

More on CEFR levels here

Screening Criteria

  • Logical thinking and hypothesis formulation skills
  • Ability to consider service challenges from a user perspective
  • Problem-solving ability focused on business impact
  • Strong sense of ownership in delivering factual insights to diverse stakeholders
  • Flexibility and a positive approach towards uncertainty

More details on screening process

Technical Evaluation Points

  • Ability to translate qualitative hypotheses into quantifiable indicators
  • Proficiency in writing effective SQL queries for data extraction/aggregation
  • Skill in communicating analysis results and insights clearly

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Hiring Process

  1. Application screening
  2. Technical assignment (for engineering: via HackerRank or GitHub; for non-engineering: position-dependent; may coincide with interviews)
  3. Interviews (several rounds, depending on position)
  4. Reference check (via online form, before or after final interview)
  5. Offer (decision based on interview and reference check)

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Equal Opportunity Statement

The group is committed to inclusion and diversity, ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to contribute regardless of background—eliminating discrimination on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, or other attributes. Learn more in the I&D statement.

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