Director, Data Science

Adelphi Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles seeks a Director of Data Science to lead a high‑impact analytics practice within Marketing Sciences and Technology. You will build ML models, partner with planning teams, and translate complex results into clear narratives for clients and internal stakeholders.

This role requires 7–10 years in informatics and a proven track record of data‑driven business outcomes.

Qualifications

• University degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field.
• 7-10 years of informatics experience in academia, advertising, management consulting, marketing or digital consulting.
• Knowledge of agency-side execution is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Planning & Investment teams to provide data science support across campaign lifecycle.
• Build advanced ML models to cluster/segment audiences and deploy audiences across platforms.
• Run descriptive/diagnostic analyses to measure campaign performance in clean rooms/analytics platforms.
• Help develop analytical roadmaps to institutionalize data-driven outcomes.
• Excellent project management with ability to meet deadlines and show urgency.
• Leverage coding to improve process efficiencies.
• Build and present decks to decode complex results for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Design and develop DS practice knowledge repository and delegate tasks to juniors.
• Lead and train direct reports and manage career progression.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Machine learning

Communication

Non-technical collaboration

Digital clean rooms

Meta/SQL/Python/R certs

Education

Math/CS/Statistics degree

7-10 years informatics experience

Tools

Meta Blueprint

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Agency:

Omnicom Media

Job Function:

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction:

Data Science and AI

Job Description:

Director,DataScience

Location: New York/Chicago/Los Angeles

Reports To:SeniorDirector, Data Science

Department:Marketing Sciences and Technology

Position Type: Full Time

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Responsibilities

External facing responsibilities:

• Partner with Planning & Investment teams to provide expert hands‑on and well as strategic 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.)
• Help develop strategic analytical roadmaps to institutionalize data driven outcomes
• Excellent project management skills with an ability to set and achieve goals, meet deadlines and act with a strong sense of urgency without compromising executional excellence
• Leverage technical (coding) expertise to help bring about process efficiencies

Internal facing responsibilities:

• Build and present decks that provide a compelling narrative to decode complex analytical results to technical and non‑technical audiences
• Help design and develop the DS practice knowledge repository and delegate tasks to junior resources to support vision
• Lead and train direct reports and manage their career progression

Required Skills

• Hands‑on programming language skills (SQL, Python, R,etc)
• Experienced in machine learning techniques, causal models, etc. to support the analysis of information
• Advanced presentation and communication skills
• Experience working with non‑technical teams
• Clear understanding of digital clean rooms, and their related concepts and strategy
• Certifications in any of the following: Meta(Blueprint), SQL, Python, R (online)
• Expert‑level domain knowledge of business/industry

Education and Experience

• A university degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field, and 7-10 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

145000-175000

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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