Associate Director, Data Science

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

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Job Summary

You will own end-to-end data science support for campaigns, building audience segmentation models, measuring performance across analytics environments, and translating insights into client and internal communications while mentoring junior staff.

  • Collaborate with Planning & Investment teams across the campaign lifecycle
  • Develop and deploy ML-based audience segmentation and analytics

Job Description

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

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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
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OMD is the world’s largest media network, with more than 14,000 people working across more than 100 countries.At OMD, We Create What’s Next — delivering creative media solutions to drive sustainable growth for the world’s leading brands. Named the best-performing global media network overall by RECMA, the highest-ranked media agency network on the Effie Effectiveness Index, and Media Network of the Year at the 2025 Cannes Festival of Media, OMD is a leader in innovation, creativity, and cultural relevance.

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