Lead, Media Insights & Innovation

Samba; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Wellness offerings

Job summary

Samba in New York/CA seeks a Principal, Insights & Innovation to blend deep data science with business insight and industry knowledge, creating cutting-edge media intelligence solutions for internal teams and external customers.

You will prototype rapidly, translate discoveries into scalable dashboards using JavaScript and React, and apply AI-driven workflows to drive data‑led media decisions while collaborating across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in analytics, statistics, data science, CS, or mathematics.
• 4–6 years of data science or analytics experience.
• Experience building data-driven applications and presenting results to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new media intelligence solutions using Samba data assets and external data through licensing and partnerships.
• Partner with Sales to conduct customer discovery, ideation, and solutions development.
• Monitor industry trends and the competitive landscape to inform Samba's direction.
• Apply descriptive, inferential, and predictive statistics with rigorous model selection and tuning.
• Develop interactive client deliverables (e.g., dashboards with JavaScript and React).
• Incorporate AI and agentic workflows into internal and external solutions.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Data Visualization

React

JavaScript

Vector databases

AI/ML concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

Tableau

Looker

Power BI

React

Jupyter

Job description

Samba in New York/CA seeks a Principal, Insights & Innovation to blend deep data science with business insight and industry knowledge, creating cutting-edge media intelligence solutions for internal teams and external customers.

You will prototype rapidly, translate discoveries into scalable dashboards using JavaScript and React, and apply AI-driven workflows to drive data‑led media decisions while collaborating across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing.