Associate Director, Data Science

OMD; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom is seeking an Associate Director of Data Science in Chicago to lead advanced analytics initiatives and deliver client-focused insights across campaigns. You will partner with planning, investments, and marketing science teams to build predictive models, perform diagnostics, and translate results to stakeholders.

The role requires 5-7 years of analytics experience, strong programming skills (SQL, Python, R), and familiarity with digital clean rooms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field.
• 5-7 years of informatics/analytics experience in advertising or digital marketing.
• Familiar with agency-side execution processes is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Planning & Investment teams to provide hands-on Data Science support across the campaign lifecycle.
• Build advanced ML models to cluster and segment audiences and deploy them across platforms.
• Run descriptive and diagnostic analyses to measure campaign performance in clean rooms and analytics platforms.
• Demonstrate strong project management, setting priorities and meeting deadlines.
• Leverage coding skills to drive process efficiencies.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

ML techniques

Presentation skills

Cross-functional

Digital clean rooms

Certifications

Domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics/CS/Statistics

Job description

Agency

Omd

Job Function

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction

Data Science and Analytics

Job Description

Associate Director, Data Science

The Data Science team is pivotal in the delivery of modern agency services. We are tightly integrated with marketing science teams to deliver on and exceed our clients’ business goals.

External facing responsibilities

• Partner with Planning & Investment teams to provide expert hands-on Data Science support across the entire campaign lifecycle.
• Build advanced ML models to cluster and segment audiences, scale and deploy custom audiences across various platforms/publishers
• Run descriptive and diagnostic analyses to help measure campaign performance within clean rooms and/or other analytics platforms (e.g., Google ADH, Facebook advanced analytics, Amazon Marketing Cloud, etc.)
• Strong project management skills with an ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and know when to ask for help
• Leverage technical (coding) expertise to help bring about process efficiencies
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Internal Facing Responsibilities

• Contribute to building decks and reports that help translate analytical results to internal and client teams
• Contribute to building DS Practice knowledge repository via decks, documents, and other artifacts
• Lead and train managers and other junior team members

Required Skills

• Hands-on programming language skills (SQL, Python, R, etc)
• Intermediate exposure to machine learning techniques, causal models, etc. to support the analysis of information
• Advanced presentation and communication skills
• Some experience working with non-technical teams
• Knowledge of digital clean rooms, and their related concepts and strategy
• Certifications in any of the following: Meta (Blueprint), SQL, Python, R (online)
• Demonstrated domain knowledge of business/industry

Education and Experience

• A university degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field, and 5-7 years of experience in informatics work in academia, advertising, management consulting, marketing or digital consulting
• Knowledge of agency-side execution process is desirable, but not required

$70,000 - $135,000

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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$70,000 - $135,000