Associate Director, Analytics & Insights (Front End)

El Segundo, CA (On-site)

$112K/yr – $172K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive analytics-driven media strategy and measurement for multi-channel campaigns, aligning dashboards, audience insights, and test‑and‑learn programs to business goals.

  • Own design and development of analytics, dashboards, and measurement frameworks linking media, creative, and audience to outcomes.
  • Must-have: 4–6+ years of analytics or data-driven strategy in a media context.
  • Standout: Leadership in cross-functional initiatives and client partnerships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Analytics Strategy & Media Performance Enablement
  • Apply global data and analytics to inform media plans, investment decisions, and optimization strategies for both conversion-focused and brand initiatives.
  • Identify key performance drivers and business outcomes, making data-backed recommendations that influence media strategy, creative approaches, and customer experience.
  • Contribute to building a durable body of knowledge across media, creative, and audience performance to inform future decisions.
  • Dashboard Strategy, Design & Development
  • Lead the design and development of dashboards, including KPI framework integration, metric standardization, and information architecture, in partnership with Directors and stakeholders.
  • Develop executive-ready, analyst-ready, and activation-ready dashboards that connect media, creative, and audience performance to business outcomes.
  • Implement best practices for dashboard UX, visual hierarchy, interactivity, and storytelling to ensure clarity, usability, and analytical rigor.
  • Collaborate with data engineering, technology, and operations teams to ensure dashboards are scalable, reliable, and embedded into decision-making workflows.
  • Audience Informed Measurement Planning
  • Partner with Audience Strategy teams during campaign planning to ensure audience definitions, segmentation logic, and addressability considerations inform measurement frameworks, KPIs, and success criteria.
  • Translate audience strategies into analytically testable hypotheses and ensure audience learning priorities are reflected in experiment design, reporting structures, and optimization recommendations.
  • Measurement Frameworks, Attribution & Test and Learn
  • Support the design, implementation, and management of holistic measurement frameworks that track digital and offline marketing performance.
  • Lead test and learn agendas, including hypothesis development, test design, and results evaluation, to improve marketing effectiveness.
  • Recommend and evolve attribution approaches (e.g., multi-touch attribution, incrementality testing, MMM) aligned to client goals and measurement maturity.
  • Ensure testing plans evaluate key variables across audience strategy, creative message and format, and media investment.
  • Advanced Analysis & Insight Development
  • Deliver advanced analyses that synthesize media, creative, and audience signals into integrated insights, clearly explaining performance drivers, interactions, and tradeoffs.
  • Monitor campaign health and provide timely, actionable optimization guidance.
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Spark Foundry

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As one of the fastest-growing global media agency networks, Spark Foundry is not beholden to legacy.We embrace nimbleness, agility and open-mindedness as part of our Startup Spirit. But as part of Publicis Media, we tap into a Powerhouse Soul, gaining access to first-mover opportunities alongside market-shaping clout, plus leading-edge AI and technology.Together, our Startup Spirit and Powerhouse Soul allow us to innovate and iterate faster than any other agency, bringing clients a distinct competitive advantage. Our innovative experiences have been recognized by Cannes Lions, Effies, Shortys and Webbys, all delivered by best-in-class talent across more than 70 global offices. Spark Foundry is part of the global Publicis Media agency network, a key division of Publicis Groupe [Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40].

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