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    ThinkAnalytics is the most widely deployed real-time personalized content and recommendations engine, bringing together intelligent search with comprehensive media content recommendations.

    With deployments possible in just weeks, ThinkAnalytics broadens customers' tastes with a personalized experience for live linear TV, VOD and over-the-top, delivered through multiple platforms including the set-top box, Web, IPTV, tablet, mobile, and more. The platform, available as a cloud-based or on premise solution, is based on the industry's most comprehensive data and text mining techniques.

    As we continue to grow, we invite talented, motivated and ambitious go-getters to apply for our Information Scientist role based in our Glasgow HQ (Initial 6 months contract with possibility to became full time employee at the end of the 6 month period).

    Key responsibilities

    • Analyse customer data sets to identify data elements that can be used for recommendations.
    • Create mappings between customer and ThinkAnalytics thesauri.
    • Analyse genre and feature information of television and movie catalogues from various countries to aid in the construction of controlled vocabularies.
    • Create new and improve existing ThinkAnalytics thesauri and content catalogues.
    • Oversee the translation of existing ThinkAnalytics thesauri to languages required by customers.
    • Work directly with development teams to improve data extraction tools and processes.
    • Participate in company social events such as monthly hackathons and ‘Pizza Fridays’!

    About you

    Essential skills

    • BLISC, DLISC or PHD/Masters in information science, information management, information and library studies or related discipline. Candidates with equivalent experience can also be considered.
    • Knowledge about organisation of knowledge/classification/cataloguing/thesauri and information retrieval.
    • Excellent research and data analysis skills.
    • Proficient in the use of MS Office (especially Excel).
    • Good communication skills and ability to write comprehensive reports.
    • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to use different tools and technologies creatively and effectively.
    • Strong attention to detail and be able to work effectively on a team.
    • Being able to follow processes and maintain a positive attitude.
    • Being able to work independently and be an effective contributor.
    • Good organizational and time management skills.
    • Excellent verbal and written English skills.

    Desirable skills

    • Background in linguistics and/or film and media studies.
    • Knowledge of a second language.
    • Experience in using relational databases and SQL.
    • Experience in developing taxonomies and thesauri.
    • An understanding of XML files and CVS/GIT repositories.
    • Knowledge of any mark-up or programming language.
    • Data analysis experience.
    • Experience in Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.
    • An interest in the software development industry.

    About us

    ThinkAnalytics’ flagship solution is the ThinkAnalytics Emmy® award-winning Content Discovery Platform, the most widely deployed real-time, personalized content and recommendations engine worldwide. More recently, the company has broadened its reach with ThinkInsight, the industry’s first Viewer and Video Insight Platform built specifically to meet the needs of TV operators.

    ThinkInsight incorporates the ThinkAnalytics Content Discovery Engine, ThinkBigData, ThinkComposer UX engine, ThinkEditorial and ThinkVoice marketing suite of products. It gives TV players a holistic view of their business, with full viewer lifecycle management enabling them to better address key industry KPIs that will help to boost loyalty, ARPU, customer experience and develop new revenue streams.

    The company’s customer base of over 80 video service providers serves more than 250 million subscribers worldwide. Customers include: Liberty Global, BBC, Proximus, Cox, Rogers, Sky, Swisscom, Astro, Singtel, TataSky, Viacom18 and Vodafone. The ThinkAnalytics Content Discovery Engine now serves over 3 billion recommendations per day and is available as a cloud service or on-premise.. ThinkAnalytics is a private, employee-owned company with offices in UK, USA, Singapore and India.