Associate Director, Data Operations

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own governance, data quality, and reporting enablement for cross‑agency campaign data, driving taxonomy, dashboards, and scalable solutions that tie to OMG and client outcomes.

  • Governance & Data Quality: enforce standards, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and access controls across data assets.
  • Reporting Platform Enablement: drive rapid development of campaign reporting and on‑demand access via dashboards, reports, and data services.
  • Cross‑Org Impact: align taxonomy, tooling, and offshore delivery with Omnicom networks and client goals to lift bench strength.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Leverages mastery of tools, systems, workflows, and teams to guide and evolve the team – streamlining and designing our most complex processes, suggesting organizational design and responsibilities, and leading implementation or selection of new partners or vendors
  • Support the design and execution of our most complex projects
  • Lead the design and implementation of taxonomy and naming conventions
  • Enforce governance and high data quality standards
  • Sees business impact beyond team, connecting prioritization and work delivery to broader Annalect, Omnicom Group, and client goals
  • Expert-level knowledge across the firm, with the ability to connect dots and grow the overall bench knowledge/strength of the team
  • Support the client and agency in data quality and use of data for better decision-making
  • Drive rapid development of innovative campaign reporting solutions
  • Support the business lead for campaign reporting, providing requirements to the product organization that address campaign reporting needs across Omnicom networks and agencies
  • Ensure the capability delivers on-demand access to agency teams and clients in a manner that facilitates intuitive understanding and sound decision-making, be it through dashboards, reports, data services, or analytic environments

Requirements

  • BS/BA or MS in Business, Marketing, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field
  • 8+ years’ experience in marketing science, advertising analytics, data operations, business intelligence, or campaign insights, ideally in a media or agency environment
  • 6+ years in marketing agency or directly working with marketing data – ideally focusing on paid media
  • Proficiency with advertising technology platforms and data quality/transformation tools is required. Experience with DBT or Great Expectations preferred.
  • Knowledge of cloud technologies and project management tools is required. Experience with Starburst, Smartsheet, and/or JIRA preferred.
  • Expert in business intelligence technologies; direct use of PowerBI or Salesforce Marketing Cloud Intelligence (f/k/a Datorama) is required. Experience with Tableau or Looker,
  • Experience with programming/query languages for business intelligence purposes, including fluency in SQL, is strongly preferred. Familiarity with Python, JavaScript, or DAX is preferential.
  • Ability to influence and manage cross-functional teams without formal authority; extensive involvement on projects including offshore, technology, operations, vendor, or agency teams required
  • Ability to oversee all stages of the Customer Lifecycle (Awareness, Conversion, Purchase, Activation, Renewal, and Referral) and distill technical information for non-technical audiences preferred; demonstrated success working with global, analytics, and client teams required
  • Previous roles supporting solutions engineers, technical account managers, project managers, product managers, or business intelligence developers preferred
  • Excellent communications skills; experience communicating across functional groups and leadership teams with varying degrees of technical background preferred

Preferred

  • Experience with DBT or Great Expectations preferred
  • Experience with Starburst, Smartsheet, and/or JIRA preferred
  • Familiarity with Python, JavaScript, or DAX is preferential.
  • Excellent communications skills; experience communicating across functional groups and leadership teams with varying degrees of technical background preferred

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • vision insurance
  • dental insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • vacation days
  • sick days
  • personal days
  • paid parental leave
  • paid medical leave
  • STD/LTD insurance benefits
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