Marketing Data Scientist, Measurement & Experimentation
Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid)
Posted 10 days ago
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Job Summary
Own end-to-end incrementality studies and serve as the testing and measurement expert across cross‑functional partners, from hypothesis and design to analysis and final recommendations.
- Design and analyze experiments (A/B, geo, matched-market, synthetic control, DiD)
- Communicate complex analytics clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and manage multiple workstreams
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Lead incrementality studies end to end, from defining the business question and assessing feasibility through test design, execution, analysis, and final recommendation
- Serve as a testing and measurement subject matter expert, advising Product Marketing, Finance, Data Science, and activation partners on hypotheses, KPI selection, sample requirements, test design, and interpretation
- Design and analyze experiments using methods such as randomized A/B tests, geo experiments, matched-market studies, synthetic controls, and Difference-in-differences
- Geo-Based Measurement: Develop and analyze geo-experiments to measure marketing incrementality and validate MMM outputs
- Communicate complex analytical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior business stakeholders
- Prioritize, project-manage, and drive multiple analytics and testing workstreams forward under tight timelines, while proactively communicating progress, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions needed
- Manage a portfolio of measurement projects independently, ensuring strong stakeholder alignment, clear documentation, and high-quality execution from intake through final recommendation
- Develop and improve scalable processes, data standards, dashboards, automation tools, and analytical techniques that increase marketing effectiveness, measurement quality, and team efficiency
- Stay current on the digital advertising and measurement ecosystem and creatively apply measurement solutions in ways that improve advertiser, member, and business outcomes
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, economics, applied mathematics, business analytics etc.
- 5+ years of relevant industry or academic experience in data science, marketing science, experimentation, causal inference, econometrics, or a related analytical field
- Working knowledge of causal inference methods, including geo-experimentation and observational approaches
- Experience designing and analyzing experiments, such as A/B tests, geo experiments, or matched-market studies
- Experience in SQL
- Background in at least one programming language (e.g., R, Python, Scala)
- Experience in applied statistics and statistical modeling in at least one statistical software package
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to stakeholders at varying technical levels
Preferred
- MS or PhD in a quantitative discipline: statistics, operations research, computer science, informatics, engineering, applied mathematics, economics, etc.
- Hands-on experience with geo-based experimentation, synthetic-control methods, difference-in-differences, Bayesian structural time-series models, or other approaches used to measure marketing incrementality
- Experience with Marketing Mix Modeling, modeled attribution, conversion lift, brand lift, ROI analysis, or the validation and calibration of marketing measurement models
- Experience with manipulating massive-scale structured and unstructured data
- Familiarity with Bayesian modeling and its applications in marketing
- Familiarity with AI-assisted coding and analytical tools used to accelerate prototyping, analysis, documentation, or workflow automation
- Passion for marketing and consumer science, with a desire to stay informed about the latest advances in the field
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Funding History
- Feb 2016Private Equity
- Apr 2014Series Unknown
- Dec 2009Secondary Market • $51.6M



















































