VP Marketing Data Science

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $195K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale an analytics program that designs and deploys predictive models, cross-channel attribution, and audience insights to drive marketing decisions and budget allocation, while leading a data science team and communicating complex insights to executives.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Establish attribution framework, model governance, and scalable analytics tooling.
  • Demand & Pipeline Analytics: Build predictive models and tests to forecast outcomes and optimize spend.
  • Stakeholder Enablement: Translate insights for senior leadership and cross-functional teams to guide decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Advanced Analytics: Design, develop, and implement advanced statistical and machine learning models to analyze marketing effectiveness, cross-channel attribution, audience analytics and user journey analytics.
  • Hands on implementation: Leverage multiple analytical approaches, tools and techniques, working on multiple data sources (media channel data, acquisitions data, revenue data,) A/B testing, incrementality studies addressing business questions through marketing lens
  • Utilize predictive analytics to forecast marketing outcomes, identify optimal spending levels, and inform budget allocation decisions.
  • Leadership and development: Translate complex business questions into analytical problems and guide the team in developing appropriate data-driven solutions.
  • Stakeholder communication: Communicate complex analytical concepts and data driven insights clearly and concisely to diverse audiences, including senior leadership, marketing teams, and cross-functional partners.
  • Operational Excellence: Oversee the end-to-end model development lifecycle, from data collection and preprocessing to model building, validation, and deployment.
  • Accountability: Ensure the team adheres to best practices in data science, model governance, and ethical data usage and ensure timely and effective deployment of models.
  • Thought Leadership: This role will serve as a subject matter expert in analytics – ability to understand complex business problems, develop analytical approaches to solve them and simplify outcomes for stakeholders. Drive ideation on analytical projects.

Requirements

  • 6-10 years’ experience within media measurement and analytics, preferably in financial services, client side, agency side or publisher side
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and R, and experience with relevant data science libraries and frameworks.
  • Experience with big data technologies, cloud platforms, and data visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Dataiku).
  • Hands on experience working with complex structured and unstructured marketing data
  • Experience leading predictive modeling using Machine Learning, Deep Learning/ Neural Networks across multiple projects
  • Strong understanding of core AI/ML concepts (e.g., RNN, LSTMs, LLMs, NLP) and ability to identify the optimal solution for any business case
  • Should be able to independently own and project manage workstreams involving multiple stakeholders, show strong sense of accountability and decisiveness in strong work ethic
  • Must be ready for hands on involvement in measurement to identify roadblocks and uncover solutions, operate with curiosity and is hypothesis driven
  • Must be process oriented and organized, operate efficiently to deliver high-quality work in a fast paced and dynamic environment across different teams
  • Extensive experience working closely with legal, compliance, and procurement teams on technology contracting and approvals in a highly regulated environment.
  • Tools and Platforms :
  • Proficient in Python / R, Hive / SQL
  • Experience on machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch etc.
  • Good to have: Experience on Gen AI platforms and tools
  • Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Finance, Statistics. Advanced degree preferred

Preferred

  • Experience on Gen AI platforms and tools

Benefits

  • medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
  • paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.
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