Senior Data Scientist

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$89K/yr – $127K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

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Job Summary

You will own the end-to-end data analytics lifecycle from framing questions to communicating insights, building scalable pipelines, and collaborating with stakeholders across marketing and business teams.

  • Translate questions into analytic plans and actionable insights
  • Develop and test scalable data pipelines and models for real-time use
  • Communicate results to technical and non-technical audiences

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Translating and reframing marketing and business questions into analytical plans.
  • Using distributed computing systems to ingest, access and integrate disparate big data sources.
  • Conducting extensive exploratory analysis to identify relevant insights, useful transformations and analytical applications.
  • Applying quantitative techniques, including statistical and machine learning, to uncover latent patterns in the data.
  • Building and testing scalable data pipelines or models for real-time applications.
  • Summarizing, visualizing, communicating and documenting analytic concepts, processes and results for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to establish clear analytical objectives, approaches and timelines.
  • Sharing knowledge, debating techniques, and conducting research to advance the collective knowledge and skills of our Data Science practice.

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, econometrics, operations research, data science, computer science, engineering, marketing or social science methods.
  • Hands-on experience mining data for decision-focused insights.
  • Hands-on experience running common statistical or machine learning procedures, such as descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, dimension reduction, feature transformation, supervised or unsupervised learning.
  • Hands-on experience using Python or R, SQL, and distributed computing systems such as Hadoop or AWS. Familiarity with Linux and/or Spark preferred.
  • Demonstrated interest in marketing analytical applications.
  • Demonstrated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment with flat structure.
  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools is a plus.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus.

Benefits

  • medical coverage
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • 401K
  • parental and family care leave
  • family forming assistance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • flexible time off
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Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

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