Associate Director, Data Science

PHD; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office work policy

Job summary

Omnicom’s PHD agency in New York seeks a Data Scientist with hands-on SQL, Python and R to join the Data Science & AI practice. You will build ML models, work with big data in data clean rooms and support client campaigns, driving insights with strong communication.

You will train junior members, contribute to knowledge repositories, and partner with Planning & Investment teams across the campaign lifecycle in a fast-paced agency environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field.
• 5–7 years of informatics experience in academia, advertising, management consulting, marketing or digital consulting.
• Hands-on SQL, Python, and R programming.
• Knowledge of digital clean rooms and related concepts and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Planning & Investment teams to provide Data Science support across the entire campaign lifecycle.
• Build advanced ML models to cluster and segment audiences across platforms.
• Run descriptive and diagnostic analyses to measure campaign performance in clean rooms and analytics platforms.
• Lead and train managers and junior team members.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Machine Learning

Communication

Education

Mathematics or Computer Science or Statistics degree

Job description

Job Description

PHD is a global communications planning and media buying agency network delivering smart strategic thinking and creative innovation for the world’s leading brands. Brilliant media thinking is in our DNA. A culture of thought-leadership, creativity and innovation has seen us grow from a challenger agency in the UK, to a global leader with over 6,000 employees in over 100 offices worldwide. We combine the latest industry insight with the best creative minds to produce planning innovation and create award-winning work for some of the world’s largest advertisers. Finding a better way is our ethos and sums up how we approach everything – from a new client brief to the way we work.

Agency

PHd

Job Function

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction

Data Science and AI

Job Description

PHD is a global communications planning and media buying agency network delivering smart strategic thinking and creative innovation for the world’s leading brands. Brilliant media thinking is in our DNA. A culture of thought-leadership, creativity and innovation has seen us grow from a challenger agency in the UK, to a global leader with over 6,000 employees in over 100 offices worldwide. We combine the latest industry insight with the best creative minds to produce planning innovation and create award-winning work for some of the world’s largest advertisers. Finding a better way is our ethos and sums up how we approach everything – from a new client brief to the way we work.

Team Overview

At PHD, we provide our clients with powerful and innovative media strategies, along with big ideas that are driven by insights. PHD Data Scientists deliver analytic solutions across a wide variety of client applications and help brands to connect better with the customers. They process and integrate big data in data clean rooms from media advertising platforms including the first party and the third-party data and support business insights and growth solutions.

Our data scientists build advanced predictive models utilizing machine learning and advanced statistic. PHD data scientists leverage data to address various types of marketing challenges such as audience creation, segmentation, identifying audience journey, optimization, digital attribution, customer retention, customer behavior prediction, and cross channel customer experience.

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.

Responsibilities

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

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 - $125,000

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 - $125,000