Associate Director, Data Science

Agency:
Omd

Job Function:
Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction:
Data Science and Analytics

Job Description:
The Data Science team is pivotal in the delivery of modern agency services. We are tightly integrated with marketing science teams to deliver on and exceed our clients' business goals.


Responsibilities


External facing responsibilities:


Partner with Planning & Investment teams to provide expert hands-on Data Science support across the entire campaign lifecycle.


Build advanced ML models to cluster and segment audiences, scale and deploy custom audiences across various platforms/publishers


Run descriptive and diagnostic analyses to help measure campaign performance within clean rooms and/or other analytics platforms (e.g., Google ADH, Facebook advanced analytics, Amazon Marketing Cloud, etc.)


Strong project management skills with an ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and know when to ask for help


Leverage technical (coding) expertise to help bring about process efficiencies


Internal facing responsibilities:


Contribute to building decks and reports that help translate analytical results to internal and client teams


Contribute to building DS Practice knowledge repository via decks, documents, and other artifacts


Lead and train managers and other junior team members


Required Skills


Hands-on programming language skills (SQL, Python, R, etc)


Intermediate exposure to machine learning techniques, causal models, etc. to support the analysis of information


Advanced presentation and communication skills


Some experience working with non-technical teams


Knowledge of digital clean rooms, and their related concepts and strategy


Certifications in any of the following: Meta (Blueprint), SQL, Python, R (online)


Demonstrated domain knowledge of business/industry


Education and Experience


A university degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field, and 5-7 years of experience in informatics work in academia, advertising, management consulting, marketing or digital consulting


Knowledge of agency-side execution process is desirable, but not requiredNew York: $70,000.00-$135,000.00

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