Senior Director, Data Science

PHDUS PHD Media LLC; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

HSA/FSA

Vacation days

Paid parental leave

Paid medical leave

Job summary

PHD Media LLC in the United States is seeking a Senior Director of Data Science to lead a team that delivers predictive models and data-driven insights for major brands. You will oversee stakeholder expectations, perform advanced analytics, and drive intelligent strategy across campaigns.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, cloud-based processing, and the communication of complex results to non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with predictive modeling and data analysis.
• 8+ years of industry experience with Python, SQL, and R.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; thrive in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Graduate degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, engineering, information management, social sciences or business/marketing related fields.
• Experience with high-volume databases and marketing analytics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintain relationships with clients at peer level or higher and inform them of updates.
• Participate on multi-disciplinary teams to develop marketing strategies for clients.
• Coach and mentor Data Science team members and document processes.
• Present complex models and dashboards through data storytelling to support media investment decisions.
• Set up analysis parameters with Advertiser and Digital Investment teams.
• Develop modeling and ML capabilities using large datasets and clustering methods.
• Support attribution and lift models in data clean rooms.
• Evaluate model performance to determine deployment cutoffs and targeting pools.
• Ingest data from sources like S3, third-party data partnerships, and data clean rooms.

Skills

Predictive Modeling

Databases

Clustering

Machine Learning

Python

SQL

R

Communication

Education

Graduate Degree

Job description

Agency: PHd Job Function: Data and Analytics Job Subfunction: Data Science and AI Job Description:

PHD Media: Senior Director, Data Science. PHD is a global communications planning and media buying agency network delivering smart strategic thinking and creative innovation for the world’s leading brands. Brilliant media thinking is in our DNA. A culture of thought-leadership, creativity and innovation has seen us grow from a challenger agency in the UK, to a global leader with over 6000 employees in over 100 offices worldwide. We combine the latest industry insight with the best creative minds to produce planning innovation and create award-winning work for some of the world’s largest advertisers.

Finding a better way is our ethos and sums up how we approach everything – from a new client brief to the way we work.

At PHD, we provide our clients with powerful and innovative media strategies, along with big ideas that are driven by insights. PHD Data Scientists deliver analytic solutions across a wide variety of client applications and help brands to connect better with the customers. They process and integrate big data in data clean rooms from media advertising platforms including the first party and the third-party data and support business insights and growth solutions.

Our data scientists build advanced predictive models utilizing machine learning and advanced statistic. PHD data scientists leverage data to address various types of marketing challenges such as audience creation, segmentation, identifying audience journey, optimization, digital attribution, customer retention, customer behavior prediction, and cross channel customer experience.

Role Overview

We are currently seeking a Senior Director to join our Data Science team. The ideal candidate will be a data science leader with the responsibility of managing expectations of internal and external stakeholders, performing predictive modeling and data queries across a multitude of platforms in Advertising and Marketing Technology domains. You will develop compelling actionable insights through quantitative analysis, innovative thinking, and storytelling with data. You will contribute to the delivery of smart marketing and strategic advice through the combination of data & insights gleaned through statistical and machine learning models, as well as data mining. By applying machine learning and data query methods, you will be a liaison between data and our client’s decision-making process. You will also inform internal and external stakeholders and prospective clients on ways of improving business processes.

Areas of Responsibility

• Maintain a productive relationship with clients at the peer level or higher to ensure they are informed of any new activities or updates to existing projects
• Participate on multi-disciplinary project teams developing marketing strategies for existing customers, as well as prospective clients
• Coach and manage the learning path of other Data Science team members by standardizing processes and owning documentation
• Present complex reporting, models, and dashboards of technical work to both informed and uninformed audiences through data storytelling to support media investment
• Set up analysis parameters in partnership with Advertiser, Media Strategy and Digital Investment team
• Build modeling and machine learning capabilities by deploying algorithms on top of our vast number of datasets, e.g., clustering, look-a-like modeling
• Support Digital Attribution and Advertising Lift models built in data clean rooms
• Evaluate model performance to determine cut-off points and audience targeting pools for deployment, e.g., lift charts
• Obtain data from various sources, including but not limited to Amazon storage service S3, Omnicom 3P data partnerships, data clean rooms from walled-gardens, e.g., Google Ads Data Hub, Facebook Advanced Analytics, Amazon Marketing Cloud
• Deploy scalable solutions to our cloud-based infrastructure to process, visualize and analyze data

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with predictive modeling, databases, computational simulation, clustering, machine learning, and remote computing in academia or industry
• 8+ years of industry experience with Python, SQL, R, and other similar statistical computing environments
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills; thrive in a rapidly evolving environment
• Ability to clearly explain complex technical ideas to multiple audiences both verbally and in writing
• Graduate degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, engineering, information management, social sciences or business/marketing related fields
• Experience working in high volume data bases, utilizing quantitative techniques to solve problems such as campaign analysis, optimization, customer segmentation, and/or predictive modeling (New graduates will also be considered depending on their educational background and academic record)
• Strong command of statistical techniques and concepts
• Strong attention to detail
• A strong desire to learn and passion for digital marketing, research and analytics
• Ability to work well with others and work in cross functional teams
• Ability to manage and prioritize a number of concurrent tasks in a fast-paced environment

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range: $180,000-$220,000 $120,000 - $230,000

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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