Head of Data Experience & AI-Powered Dashboards

dentsu; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

401k

Flexible paid time off

15 paid holidays per year

Paid sick and safe leave

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Carat in New York seeks a senior data leader to own the end-to-end data experience for a dedicated client team. You will drive the vision for data solutions, dashboards, and the underlying LT pipelines on a Databricks lakehouse, delivering through Dentsu Connect.

You will guide cross-channel data connections, lead dashboarding with Power BI, automate pipelines, and apply AI/LLM capabilities to data QA and insights. Requires 10+ years in analytics and client-facing leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years across analytics, data engineering, and media data with progressive leadership responsibility
• Deep media fluency — how media is planned, bought, and measured and how ad server, DSP, search, social, and site-served data fit together
• Hands-on experience performing crosswalks between media platforms — de-duplicating and connecting data
• Thorough understanding of reach and frequency data — attribution windows and de-duplication across channels
• Thorough understanding of site-served digital direct partners
• Strong Databricks and Spark experience — lakehouse architecture and data modeling for analytics
• Enterprise dashboarding experience (Power BI preferred)
• Track record building and leading data teams, including client-facing delivery at senior client altitude
• A product mindset — roadmaps, iteration, and durable data products

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end data experience — data solutions, dashboarding, and the data engineering behind them
• Design and run load-and-transform (LT) pipelines on Databricks
• Lead the dashboard build — Power BI dashboards on governed data products
• Deliver through Dentsu Connect — using Data Refinery and Taxonomy Monitor & Manager
• Own cross-channel data connection — design crosswalks to deduplicate and join data
• Manage ingestion and QA for partner data where standard tracking isn’t available
• Translate media into data models with planning, investment, and analytics teams
• Automate pipelines, orchestration, monitoring, and alerting
• Push AI into the product with LLM capabilities for QA and insights
• Recruit, develop, and lead onshore and offshore engineers and BI developers

Skills

Leadership

Data strategy

AI/ML mindset

Client-facing

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Data Refinery

Taxonomy Monitor & Manager

Job description

Carat in New York seeks a senior data leader to own the end-to-end data experience for a dedicated client team. You will drive the vision for data solutions, dashboards, and the underlying LT pipelines on a Databricks lakehouse, delivering through Dentsu Connect.

You will guide cross-channel data connections, lead dashboarding with Power BI, automate pipelines, and apply AI/LLM capabilities to data QA and insights. Requires 10+ years in analytics and client-facing leadership.