Director, Analytics

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$115K/yr – $135K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and lead analytics engagements across earned, social, owned, and other media to deliver strategic insights and measurable impact for clients, while coordinating teams and deploying AI-powered tools.

  • Own project delivery from scoping to insights
  • Lead cross-functional analytics teams
  • Drive client relationships and growth opportunities

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with teams to service client research and analytics requests, design the approach, lead a team through earned and social media analyses, and answer questions from internal and external stakeholders
  • Manage workloads of teams to ensure delivery of compelling analytics reports and insights that empower client to understand trends and actionable implications of analyses
  • Test and deploy AI-powered analytical tools to analyze client and publicly available data
  • Participate in new business and organic client growth through proactive stakeholder engagement, client outreach, and solutions mapping.
  • Maintain strong knowledge of both well-established and new-to-market digital marketing analytics tools and platforms; specifically syndicated research and social listening platforms.
  • Evangelize smart data analytics that inform data-driven decision-making internally and externally with clients and other agency partners
  • Develop and apply strategic measurement frameworks to uncover insights and takeaways from data across earned, social, owned, and other media sources.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated expertise and experience translating data and research into strategic insights and recommendations
  • 5+ years relevant full-time experience as an independent contributor and 4+ years managing direct report(s)
  • Experience engaging and collaborating with clients and internal teams with agency or matrixed analytics team
  • Experience in social listening, marketing analytics, digital analytics, multi-channel analyses, AI-powered analytics, campaign performance, and measurement of real-world impact
  • Experience analyzing and synthesizing data from first-party and third-party sources
  • Ability to work independently and be a collaborative team player who brings unique analytics skills to large client teams
  • Desire and capacity to take full ownership of work tracks, manage complicated deadlines and deliverable processes, nurture client relationships, collaborate with strategy and creative teams, and mentor junior analytics staff
Weber Shandwick logo

Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

Founded in 2001
New York, NY, US
4.4K employees (1,170 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$115K/yr – $135K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Marketing Analytics median pay in the United States

$110K/yr

Most pay falls between $86K and $159K. Based on 2,033 salaries.

See all Weber Shandwick salaries

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
74.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36%
Direct
46.1%
Referral
5.6%
Social
11.7%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.4K
Weber Shandwick logo

Director, Analytics

Weber Shandwick · Chicago, IL · Hybrid