Data Scientist ( Media ) – Python / SQL – New York, Manhattan / Hybrid – Marketing / Media – $110,000 – $130,000 + Benefits

Our client is a modern marketing company engineered for the unprecedented opportunities and challenges facing marketers today. They are known for pairing the brightest data scientists with award-winning creatives, strategists, engineers and expert research teams to produce some of the most innovative and cutting-edge creative work in culture.

Their clients span the leading brands in finance, technology, media, CPG, real estate, and many other categories. These partnerships have earned them multiple awards and recognition.

Their Data Science team is a group embedded in the media buying practice to translate the domain knowledge gained from running media for their clients to smart tools that push the limits of advanced advertising. Their work includes predictive modeling/optimization, building workflow automation apps, and the pioneering application of Generative AI for novel marketing solutions – all in the service of making our work less repetitive and manual, more optimized, and seeking better outcomes for our media activation and media consulting clients.

They are seeking Data Scientists with media experience who can understand the core business objectives of the internal teams and their clients, and ideate, design, and develop innovative tools leveraging the latest marketing techniques. While experience in media is a plus, a passion for applying cutting-edge AI to marketing challenges is crucial.

Who You Are And What You Have

• A degree from a well-regarded college or university. STEM degrees are preferred.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience doing quantitative analysis, statistical modeling, optimization and/or statistics. Experience utilizing Python and SQL.
• 1+ years of experience building data science software.
• Experience in strategy consulting, marketing and/or marketing research, with specific passion and background in technology and/or media. This should include examples of account / client management.
• Understanding of the advertising and media landscape, especially as it pertains to measurement vendors and ad platforms.
• Superb communication and presentation skills, with a specific fluency in talking about strategic business problems – you combine a drive for analytical reasoning with a practical understanding of what our clients in marketing are trying to achieve.
• Ability to communicate technical information with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in making appropriate research or analysis recommendations for these business problems.
• Proficiency in Google products (Sheets, Documents, Slides) and/or Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Ability to think strategically, analytically, and proactively about diverse business problems.
• Passion for managing the quality & accuracy of data sources and downstream analytics, including checking your and others’ work.
• Experience working on a variety of projects simultaneously and delivering results on a deadline
  

What You’ll Do

• Project management and ownership. While you will have account-level project management support, you will independently manage work streams you own.
• Understanding the client’s overall business objectives and translating them into a campaign and measurement strategy.
• Overseeing the performance of media campaigns and amazing our clients, both by meeting their targets and creating insightful narratives through bespoke reporting. Writing reports and presenting to clients in a way that is engaging and persuasive.
• Developing research, measurement, or analytical approaches.
• Statistical analysis of complex data sets.
• Managing the ingestion and cleaning of new datasets relevant to your work / projects.
• Creating reproducible work through common coding languages (Priority: Python and SQL).
• Working with other data scientists and engineers to productionalize new tools.
• Interpreting data to understand the business implications of the research. Framing analyses, stories, and slides for client media plans and reports.
• Serving as the key client point of contact on campaign measurement, optimization, and data infrastructure.
• Creation of interactive data tools that are delivered to clients, such as dashboards for marketing campaign performance, media experiments, or simulation tools – you would be provided training in how to create these, but prior experience with MCI is a plus
  

Some Of The Perks 

• Unlimited paid time off
• 401k with company matching and no vesting period
• Annual bonuses
• Generous medical plan
• Paid parental leave

How Do You Apply? 

If you are interested in applying for the Data Scientist role, please do so via the link on this page or contact Digital Republic Talent on the phone or by email.

Contact Us To Find Out More

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