Gunosy Inc.

Company

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Company Gunosy Inc.
Employee 150+
Founded 2012
Web Site https://gunosy.co.jp/
Description Gunosy is Japan’s leading news app company with 40 million users
Location Tokyo, Japan

Team

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Title Data Engineer
Mission My mission was to analyze large-scale user data to improve advertising performance.
Term 2018-04 - 2019-06
Team Size 10
Type Permanent

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Summary GU1. I analyzed data from millions of users and designed A/B testing, which improved 7-day retention by 10%.
Situation
  • The platform was seeing a decline in user retention rates.
  • This affected millions of users and hurt long-term growth.
Task My mission was to create and implement effective strategies to stop the decline and improve user retention.
Action
  • I strategized user experience
    • I focused on improving the initial experience for new users
  • I implemented A/B testing
    • I designed and launched A/B tests for personalized content
    • I customized initial content based on ads users clicked before installing
Result As a result, the new user experience improvements increased 7-day user retention by 10%.
Challenge A key challenge was making sure we had enough users for A/B testing. The target group (new users) was a smaller part of the total user base.
Solution To solve this, I worked with the marketing team to run targeted ad campaigns. These brought enough new users to the platform for solid A/B testing.
Learning I learned that different teams must work together. Data engineering and marketing teams especially need to collaborate to get statistically significant test results.
Skill Data Engineering / Collaboration

Technology

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