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[Pricing Analytics] Staff Data Analyst

Coupang

Coupang

IT, Data Science
Shanghai, China
Posted on Mar 25, 2025

Staff Data Analyst

Job Overview:

As our Staff Data Analyst for Pricing and Retail Analytics, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of regular reports and metrics, supporting and influencing system-wide decision-making through effective insight reports. Coupang fosters a data-driven culture, empowered by rapid test-and-learn methodologies across all customer-facing domains. You will have the opportunity to work in many different areas , including Pricing, Retail Commerce, 3P Commerce and Promotions. You will join a team of data analysts committed to bringing clarity to business by establishing metrics frameworks, building reports, and contributing to effective decision-making with insightful reports. Your engagement with product owners, operational teams, engineers, and other stakeholders will have a significant impact on our business.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop a holistic understanding of your assigned domain, establish a comprehensive input/output metrics framework to clarify business operations, and set benchmarks/targets to track excellence in various business areas.
  • Create and maintain user-friendly reports and dashboards to enhance the effectiveness of business decisions and operations, catering to the needs of both leadership and key partnering teams.
  • Conduct in-depth analyses on key projects and develop logically sound insight reports with clear recommendations, being objective and vocal in your approach to influence stakeholders.
  • Prioritize daily tasks and proactively engage with stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective collaboration.
  • Keep the developed reports and backend systems up-to-date, including learning and deploying new technologies in both methodology and technical/software aspects.
  • Maintain thorough documentation of knowledge and best practices, and provide training and mentorship to junior team members.

Qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or other technical or business fields (Bachelor's degree with extensive experience is also considered).
  • 5+ years of experience in data science, business analytics, or other quantitative fields with a Master's degree, or 7+ years with a Bachelor's degree.
  • Excellent SQL skills and a good understanding of statistical analysis.
  • Proficient in English, both written and spoken; strong presentation and communication skills.
  • Experience in initiating and driving analytics projects, delivering actionable insights and recommendations to the business.
  • Experience in creating Tableau, PowerBI, Grafana, or similar GUI-based reports; not just a data producer, but a heavy data consumer.
  • Experience with data analytics tools such as relevant Python libraries, Spark, R, as well as ETL engineering tools like GitHub and Airflow.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Relevant working experience in the retail/e-commerce industry.
  • Proficiency in Korean or experience working and living in South Korea is advantageous.