Associate Director, Data Management

Hearts & Science; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Hearts & Science in Burbank, CA seeks a Data & Analytics Lead to stand up dashboarding and data ingestion for a healthcare client. You will oversee 2–3 analysts, manage data ingestion workstreams, and ensure QA across dashboards feeding insights and reporting.

The role emphasizes governance, data standards, and collaboration with vendors and client teams. A strong data mindset and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data management, marketing analytics, business intelligence, media analytics, marketing technology, or a related field
• Experience working in a media/advertising agency, marketing organization, consultancy, or similar client-services environment preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end data processes and workflows for complex client or enterprise environments
• Proven experience standing up and managing performance dashboards used by clients or business stakeholders
• Strong knowledge & experience with data quality assurance, reconciliation, governance, documentation, and workflow management
• Strong understanding of digital media, paid media, campaign measurement, marketing performance, and relevant advertising data sources
• Strong communication, project management, and process documentation skills
• Strategic thinker who can connect data operations to client and business outcomes
• May be required to take on ad hoc assignments, projects, and responsibilities as needed to support business objectives, client needs, and operational requirements.

Responsibilities

• Being an organized and proactive self-starter is a must
• Primary lead to our dashboarding team for standing up our dashboard/data ingestion for our healthcare client. This is the data that feeds insights and reporting.
• Lead for client's internal dashboard initiative, including managing data ingestion workstreams and QA
• Lead for data request and QA workstreams to aid advanced analysis, such as marketing mix modeling data or client site data
• Lead group of 2-3 data analysts
• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and integrity issues, and lead resolution with internal teams, clients, vendors, and technology partners.

Skills

Data management

Marketing analytics

Business intelligence

Media analytics

Marketing technology

Agency experience

End-to-end data processes

Performance dashboards

Data quality assurance

Governance

Documentation

Project management

Strategic thinking

Ad hoc assignments

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Adverity

Datorama

Alteryx

SQL

Python

dbt

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Google Marketing Platform

Campaign Manager 360

Display & Video 360

Google Ads

Meta Ads Manager

The Trade Desk

Amazon Ads

Job description

Job Description

Being an organized and proactive self-starter is a must

• Primary lead to our dashboarding team for standing up our dashboard/data ingestion for our healthcare client. This is the data that feeds insights and reporting.
• Lead for client's internal dashboard initiative, including managing data ingestion workstreams and QA
• Lead for data request and QA workstreams to aid advanced analysis, such as marketing mix modeling data or client site data
• Lead group of 2-3 data analysts
• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and integrity issues, and lead resolution with internal teams, clients, vendors, and technology partners.
• Evaluate data and research/analytics vendors for or on behalf of clients
• Maintain data standards and taxonomies
• Develop data-governance practices that support accuracy, consistency, security, and appropriate access controls.
• Maintain documentation for data sources, business rules, transformation logic, refresh schedules, ownership, and dependencies.
• Partner with vendor, client analytics, and activation teams to improve data accessibility and usability.

Agency

Hearts & Science

Job Function

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction

Data Science and Analytics

Job Description

Core responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Being an organized and proactive self-starter is a must
• Primary lead to our dashboarding team for standing up our dashboard/data ingestion for our healthcare client. This is the data that feeds insights and reporting.
• Lead for client's internal dashboard initiative, including managing data ingestion workstreams and QA
• Lead for data request and QA workstreams to aid advanced analysis, such as marketing mix modeling data or client site data
• Lead group of 2-3 data analysts
• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and integrity issues, and lead resolution with internal teams, clients, vendors, and technology partners.
• Evaluate data and research/analytics vendors for or on behalf of clients
• Maintain data standards and taxonomies
• Develop data-governance practices that support accuracy, consistency, security, and appropriate access controls.
• Maintain documentation for data sources, business rules, transformation logic, refresh schedules, ownership, and dependencies.
• Partner with vendor, client analytics, and activation teams to improve data accessibility and usability.

Desired Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills

• 5+ years of experience in data management, marketing analytics, business intelligence, media analytics, marketing technology, or a related field
• Experience working in a media/advertising agency, marketing organization, consultancy, or similar client-services environment preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end data processes and workflows for complex client or enterprise environments
• Proven experience standing up and managing performance dashboards used by clients or business stakeholders
• Strong knowledge & experience with data quality assurance, reconciliation, governance, documentation, and workflow management
• Strong understanding of digital media, paid media, campaign measurement, marketing performance, and relevant advertising data sources
• Comfortable operating at both a high level and in the details of data workflows and quality checks
• Strong communication, project management, and process documentation skills
• Strategic thinker who can connect data operations to client and business outcomes
• May be required to take on ad hoc assignments, projects, and responsibilities as needed to support business objectives, client needs, and operational requirements.

Desired Technical Experience

• Cloud data platforms and warehouses: Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar environments.
• Marketing and media data platforms: Adverity, Datorama
• Data preparation and workflow automation: Alteryx, SQL, Python, dbt, or similar technologies.
• Business intelligence and visualization: Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar tools.
• Advertising and activation platforms: Google Marketing Platform, Campaign Manager 360, Display & Video 360, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, The Trade Desk, Amazon Ads, and other major media platforms.
• Data integration and APIs: Experience working with API-based data feeds, SFTP transfers, cloud storage, ETL/ELT tools, and automated data pipelines.
• Database and query technologies: Experience working with relational databases, dimensional models, and data marts.

$70,000 - $125,000

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$70,000 - $125,000