Director, Analytics

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$135K/yr – $165K/yrDirector/Executive9+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive client-facing analytics leadership for retail media programs, translating complex measurement into actionable business insights across MMM and incrementality tests.

  • Own client analytics engagements, translating complex measurement into actionable business insights.
  • Must-have: 9+ years in media or marketing analytics with team leadership.
  • Standout: Proven leadership of MMM and incrementality analyses in retail contexts.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Client Leadership & Communication - Serve as a primary analytics lead for clients, translating complex measurement into clear, actionable insights.
  • Confidently communicate performance, testing results, and measurement approaches to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Build trust with client partners by balancing analytical rigor with practical, business-focused recommendations.
  • Team Leadership & Oversight - Lead and mentor a team of analysts and managers, providing guidance and feedback.
  • Review outputs to ensure accuracy, quality, and clarity before sharing with clients.
  • Create an environment where the team can execute effectively while maintaining strong analytical standards.
  • Step in on analyses when needed to support the team and validate outputs.
  • Maintain hands-on familiarity to provide credible guidance and direction.
  • Media & Retail Measurement Leadership - Lead advanced media measurement across paid search, paid social, retail media networks, CTV, and upper-funnel channels.
  • Personally design, execute, and interpret MMM, incrementality tests, and causal analyses tied to retail media decisions.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience in media analytics or marketing analytics
  • Hands-on analytics experience in recent roles, with understanding of how analyses are built and executed
  • Proven ability to lead teams and review analytical work
  • Strong client-facing experience with the ability to simplify complex concepts and influence decisions
  • Significant experience leading media analytics in a retail or retail-focused environment
  • Hands-on experience running MMM, incrementality tests, and causal analyses tied to media investment decisions
  • Applied Statistical Fluency (regression, time-series, Bayesian concepts, etc.)
  • Ability to balance rigor, speed, and cost to drive meaningful business impact from analytics
  • Leadership & Communication experience with senior executives and managing analysts

Preferred

  • Hands-on experience with MMM, incrementality tests, and causal analyses tied to media investment decisions
  • Experience in leading analytics in a retail or retail-focused environment
  • Deep knowledge of leading digital marketing platforms (Google, YouTube, Meta, Amazon/retail, CTV)
  • Strong storytelling skills with a focus on decisions, next steps, and impact

Benefits

  • Competitive and equitable pay, 401k matching, and bi-annual bonus eligibility
  • Flexible PTO and Half-Day Fridays
  • Philanthropic Efforts and Paid Time Off to Volunteer
  • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Annual Wellness Stipend
  • Currently a hybrid work environment with stunning NYC & Dallas offices
  • Suite of parental benefits, including generous paid leave, 529 scholarship fund, Milk Stork, and fully stocked mother’s room
  • Hybrid work policy details that allow a balance between in-office and remote work
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January Digital

January Digital is the Marketing Leadership Company. We solve business challenges through media excellence, strategic guidance, and actionable analytics. Our agency team handles full funnel media planning, execution, and optimization while our consulting team offers true strategic leadership for building successful client marketing organizations. All our work is supported with a strong foundation of data and actionable insights which ensure our clients are as successful as possible.As a company, our motto is to build a company that improves the lives of our clients, our people, and the world around us. We support this mission through a number of efforts including our WORKS program. Good Works is our philanthropy program that ensures we have an outsized impact on our surrounding communities through financial and volunteering efforts. Our Well Works program focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual health of our employees through required minimum PTO, an annual wellness stipend, fully paid health care, fully paid counseling services, extended parental leave, and much more.Between our work and our culture, January Digital has been recognized more than 125 times, including being named a Best Place to Work by INC four times and Dallas Business Journal three times, one of Ad Age's Best Places to Work 2025, a 2024 NRF Partner of the Year, a seven-time INC 5000 fastest growing company, and numerous awards for our tactical and strategic excellence with innovative partners like Carhartt and Kendra Scott.

Founded in 2011
New York, New York, USA
101 employees (26 in marketing)

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Current headcount: ~101

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