Director, Data Science

IME Mediabrands Worldwide, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media seeks a Director of Data Science to lead the Data Science team within Marketing Sciences and Technology. This full-time role supports the agency's clients from New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, reporting to the Senior Director, Data Science.

You will build ML models, craft analytic roadmaps, present clear narratives to diverse audiences, and mentor junior staff, combining programming skills (SQL, Python, R) with domain expertise.

Qualifications

• Hands-on programming languages: SQL, Python, R.
• Experience with machine learning techniques and causal models.
• Advanced presentation and communication skills.
• Experience working with non-technical teams.
• Knowledge of digital clean rooms and related concepts.
• Certifications in Meta Blueprint, SQL, Python or R.
• Expert-level domain knowledge of business/industry.

Responsibilities

• External: Partner with Planning & Investment teams to provide Data Science support across the campaign lifecycle.
• External: Build advanced ML models to cluster and segment audiences and deploy them across platforms.
• External: Run analyses to measure campaign performance within analytics platforms.
• External: Develop strategic analytical roadmaps to drive data-driven outcomes.
• External: Manage projects with urgency while maintaining executional excellence.
• External: Leverage coding skills to create process efficiencies.
• Internal: Build decks to explain analytics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Internal: Design and develop the DS practice knowledge repository and mentor juniors.
• Internal: Lead and train direct reports and manage their career progression.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Education

University degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field

Job description

Agency: Omnicom Media Job Function: Data and Analytics Job Subfunction: Data Science and AI Job Description: Director, Data Science Location: New York/Chicago/Los Angeles Reports To: Senior Director, Data Science Department: Marketing Sciences and Technology Position Type: Full Time

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 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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