Data Strategist (Contract-to-Perm)

Block+Tackle; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Block+Tackle is seeking a Data Strategist to lead data discovery for enterprise marketing clients, translating ambitious asks into actionable data roadmaps and KPI architectures. You will work across CDPs, CRM, analytics, and data warehouses to determine what data can tell us and what must change.

The role blends strategic thinking with technical fluency, requiring SQL proficiency and experience with modern BI tools. Collaboration with Martech and Marketing Operations is essential.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in data strategy or analytics consulting in enterprise marketing.
• Ability to discuss CDPs, data warehouses, identity resolution, and attribution.

Responsibilities

• Lead data discovery engagements auditing client data ecosystems.
• Translate executive asks into data roadmaps with defensible prioritization.
• Design KPI architectures, attribution approaches, and reporting structures.
• Present findings to VP and C-level marketing stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Martech, CX Strategy, and Marketing Operations teams.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data-driven decision making

Consulting mindset

Tools

Tableau

Looker

Power BI

CDPs

Job description

Block+Tackle helps enterprise marketing organizations get their arms around the data, platforms, and ambition they already have. We don't rip and replace. We diagnose how process, people, and technology intersect, then we make what's there actually work.

We're hiring a Data Strategist to sit at the center of that diagnosis for our enterprise marketing clients. You are the person who walks into an enterprise marketing organization — Fortune 1000 scale, multiple martech platforms, years of accumulated data debt — and figures out what the data is actually capable of telling them, what it can't, and what has to change for the gap to close.

This is not a dashboard-building role. This is not a data engineering role. This is a strategy role that requires enough technical fluency to be dangerous and enough business judgment to know which findings matter.

What You'll Own

Lead data discovery and assessment engagements: audit client data ecosystems (CDP, CRM, marketing automation, analytics platforms, data warehouses) and map what exists against what the client's marketing strategy requires

Translate ambiguous executive asks ("we want to be more data-driven") into concrete, sequenced data roadmaps with defensible prioritization

Design measurement frameworks: KPI architectures, attribution approaches, and reporting structures that survive contact with real organizational politics

Identify where the client's problem is actually a process or people problem wearing a technology costume — and say so

Build the analytical foundation for growth programs: segmentation strategies, trial-to-loyalty loops, lifecycle measurement

Present findings and recommendations directly to VP and C-level marketing stakeholders

Work alongside our Martech, CX Strategy, and Marketing Operations practices — data strategy at Block+Tackle never lives in isolation

You Will Not

Maintain pipelines or own production data infrastructure

Spend your days in a BI tool making charts someone else specified

Recommend a platform replacement as the default answer to every problem

What You Bring

5–8 years in data strategy, marketing analytics, or analytics consulting — with meaningful time spent inside or serving enterprise marketing organizations

Fluent across the modern marketing data stack: you can hold a credible conversation about CDPs, warehouse-native architectures, identity resolution, and attribution without a slide deck

Hands-on enough to interrogate the data yourself: SQL proficiency required; comfort with a BI platform (Tableau, Looker, Power BI) expected

You've seen martech implementations succeed and fail, and you can articulate why in terms of process and adoption, not just configuration

Consulting temperament: comfortable with ambiguity, client-facing by default, able to write and present clearly under time pressure

You have a point of view and can defend it — but you change your mind when the data says to

Nice to Have, but Not Required

Experience with campaign intelligence or orchestration tooling

Engagement Structure

Initial term: Contract engagement (duration and hours scoped during the interview process)

Conversion path: Contract-to-perm for the right fit — we'd rather prove the match on real work than guess in an interview

Rate: Competitive, commensurate with experience; discussed early in the process

Block+Tackle is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.