Marketing Scientist

Samba; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness offerings

Life and disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Samba seeks a Marketing Analytics professional to serve as the analytical backbone of our content engine in San Francisco. You will translate data into insights that inform campaign creative, thought leadership, and sales enablement.

You will partner with content, creative, brand, growth, and product marketing teams to ensure every piece of content is grounded in evidence and supported by rigorous analysis and storytelling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in marketing analytics or related discipline.
• Strong SQL and fluency with at least one analytics or BI tool (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Mode, or Hex).
• Hands-on experience with the modern marketing data stack (Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, GA4, CDPs).
• Track record turning data into narratives with reports, decks, or campaigns.
• Excellent written and visual communication; project management and curiosity.

Responsibilities

• Generate insights by cleaning and analyzing data from internal and external sources.
• Tell data stories with charts and talking points for content, blogs, reports, social posts, decks, and PR pitches.
• Find proprietary data stories that position Samba as a category authority.
• Power the content engine by supplying insight-driven topic ideas and research angles.
• Lead original research from survey design to interpretation and storytelling.
• Collaborate with measurement science, product, sales, customer success, and data engineering.
• Build an evidence culture by educating marketing stakeholders on what the data says.

Skills

SQL

BI tools

Python or R

Strong written communication

Project management

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Mode

Hex

Salesforce

HubSpot

Marketo

GA4

Job description

Samba connects the advertising industry. Today, a trillion dollars of media flows through platforms that don't talk to each other, and each one measures its own results. We built the independent alternative: consented first-party data and AI that give the world's biggest advertisers, publishers, and platforms one clear view across all of it.

The next era of advertising will run on AI agents, and those agents will need data they can trust. We're building that foundation, and the agents that act on it. Join us and help build what the industry runs on.

About The Role

You are the analytical backbone of our marketing content engine, translating data into the insights, narratives, and proof points behind campaign creative, thought leadership, sales enablement, and executive storytelling. You partner with content, creative, brand, growth, and product marketing teams so every piece of content is informed by evidence.

What You'll Do

• Generate Insights: Pull, clean, and analyze data from internal and external sources to surface insights that shape marketing content.
• Tell Data Stories: Turn complex findings into clear narratives, charts, and talking points the content team can use in blog posts, reports, social posts, sales decks, and PR pitches.
• Find Proprietary Stories: Identify trends, benchmarks, and proprietary data stories that position Samba as a category authority.
• Power the Content Engine: Serve as the dedicated data partner to content marketing, supplying insight-driven topic ideas, supporting statistics, and original research angles, and managing the content insights backlog.
• Lead Original Research: Lead original research, from designing surveys and structuring datasets to interpreting results and shaping the story, and fact-check data used in marketing content.
• Partner Across Teams: Collaborate with measurement science, product, sales, customer success, and data engineering to access the right data, and with growth and demand generation on segmentation, testing, and attribution.
• Build Evidence Culture: Educate marketing stakeholders on what the data says, building a culture of evidence-based decisions, and manage external research partners, data vendors, and analytics tools.

What You Bring

• 5+ years in marketing analytics, marketing science, insights, business intelligence, or a related discipline, ideally supporting a content, brand, or demand generation team.
• Strong SQL and fluency with at least one analytics or business intelligence (BI) tool, such as Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Mode, or Hex; power-user spreadsheet skills; Python or R a plus.
• Hands‑on experience with the modern marketing data stack: customer relationship management (CRM) systems such as Salesforce and HubSpot, marketing automation such as Marketo, web analytics such as GA4, and customer data platforms.
• A track record of turning data into narratives, with reports, decks, or campaigns where your insights drove the story, and strong written and visual communication skills.
• Project management instincts, intellectual curiosity, healthy skepticism of your own numbers, and a bias toward action: you juggle stakeholders, prioritize ruthlessly, and ship on deadline.
• Nice to have: original research or survey experience, familiarity with marketing mix modeling, multi‑touch attribution, or incrementality testing, a business‑to‑business software‑as‑a‑service (B2B SaaS), media, or consumer tech background, and published data‑driven content.

Compensation

$130,000 - $160,000 a year

Samba expects to offer On‑Target Earnings (OTE) of $130,000 - $160,000 per year for roles to be performed in San Francisco; actual base salary offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to, location, experience, and performance. Base salary is just one component of Samba's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, short‑term incentives, and long‑term incentives. In addition, Samba provides health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), and other employee benefits.

Samba is an equal opportunity employer.

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