Data Partnerships Specialist (AdTech)

Acxiom; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Acxiom is seeking a data acquisition and vendor management professional for a remote-friendly role. You will coordinate integration prerequisites, manage data licenses, and maintain comprehensive data feed documentation while ensuring compliance with SLAs and governance standards.

You will collaborate with ingestion teams to resolve delivery issues, track agreements through execution, and work with procurement to align usage and billing with contract terms.

Qualifications

• Experience with data licensing models and data products.
• Ability to read and interpret licensing agreements and usage metrics.
• Strong written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical intake prerequisites with Data Ingestion team.
• Maintain documentation for data feeds, mappings, and schemas.
• Troubleshoot delivery failures and feed interruptions with data ingestion teams.
• Track NDAs, Data License Agreements, and amendments through execution.
• Log contractual parameters including permitted use, renewal dates, and data retention.
• Verify DPIAs and security questionnaires before feed activation.
• Maintain Salesforce records for provider status and feed types.
• Monitor SLAs, delivery timeliness, and data quality.
• Reconcile vendor usage, data volumes, and invoices with procurement.

Skills

Data acquisition

Vendor management

Data governance

Product support

APIs & data formats

Communication

Tools

APIs

SFTP

Cloud storage

Data feeds

Job description

Remote/Homebased

Full time

JR014568

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical intake prerequisites for new data providers in conjunction with our Data Ingestion team
• Maintain technical documentation for data feeds, including schema mappings, data dictionaries, updates/delta schedules, and ingestion pipeline notes.
• Partner with data ingestion teams to troubleshoot delivery failures, format anomalies, or feed interruptions.
• Track the lifecycle of data acquisition agreements (NDAs, Data License Agreements, Order Forms, and Amendments) from initiation through execution.
• Audit and log specific contractual parameters into central tracking systems:
• Permitted use cases, restrictions, and redistribution rights
• Renewal dates, notice periods, and termination conditions
• Data retention schedules and purge/deletion mandates
• Log and verify Provider Data Sheets, Data Privacy Impact Assessments (DPIAs), and security questionnaires prior to feed activation.
• Maintain the central Data Acquisition Salesforce, capturing provider status, feed types, renewal cadences, and key operational contacts.
• Monitor vendor performance metrics against Service Level Agreements (SLAs), including delivery timeliness and data quality standards.
• Reconcile vendor usage, data volume metrics, and invoice details with procurement and finance to ensure accurate billing against contract caps.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: 2–4 years in data acquisition, vendor management, data governance, or product support roles within a data-driven organization.
• Data Expertise: Hands‑on experience or working familiarity with data products, licensing models, and identity/data integration solutions.
• Technical Aptitude: Comfort navigating data structures, APIs, and file delivery methods (SFTP, cloud storage, direct feeds).
• Analytical Skills: Strong ability to read and interpret complex licensing agreements, contract terms, and usage metrics.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate data availability, licensing constraints, and business impacts to non-technical stakeholders.

Primary Location City/State

Homebased - Conway, Arkansas

Additional Locations (if applicable)

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