Position Summary:
As a member of our International News Indexing team based in Princeton, NJ, you will be responsible for automated classification of the world’s most important financial and economic news with the aim of further entrenching Bloomberg as the leader in the financial news market. We use proprietary and open-source software to automatically retrieve, parse, organize and tag news in Portuguese from social media sites, news feeds, web sites and other sources that run on the Bloomberg Professional Service. We also build and maintain our complex taxonomy of classification tags according to our clients” needs. Our work is not theoretical or hyper-specific – it is practical and impactful.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify accurate and reliable news sources in Portuguese and act as subject matter expert for the Portuguese news product.
- Identify opportunities to create efficiency in our processes and execute on your ideas.
- Develop cutting-edge processes focused on natural language processing, data science, machine learning, and text analysis as we build the next generation of Bloomberg”s proprietary news classification products.
- Collaborate with our partners in Product Strategy, Sales, Analytics and Engineering to understand our clients” needs from South America and build a market-leading news product. In addition, you will also partner with our Sales and Analytics groups to promote our news product and ensure strong customer uptake.
- Use specialized software in order to create hierarchical rules that automatically classify Bloomberg and third-party news in Portuguese, as well as data from social media sites. You need to have a keen interest in international news and perform research in order to identify news topics and modify or create news classification rules accordingly.
Required Education & Experience:
- Bachelor”s degree in disciplines such as Library Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, -Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Business, Finance, or other computer-related specialization
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to pay close attention to detail
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working on data science projects and technologies, especially using NLP techniques to deal with unstructured text corpora
- 1 – 3 years of professional project management experience in information management with the ability to deliver on tight deadlines
- Working knowledge of a programming or query language and experience of using it for a data analysis/data science project (e.g. R, Python, JavaScript, SQL, etc.)
- Proven understanding of customer service and experience in building strong relationships with stakeholders
- Strong interest/ knowledge in financial and economic news
- Work legally in the US without visa sponsorship now or in the future
- Knowledge of U.S. market trends, themes and drivers
- Comprehensive knowledge of the news sources in South America and fluency in Brazilian Portuguese