Senior Vice President, Director of Performance Measurement & Infrastructure

Omnicom Public Relations; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Omnicom Public Relations in Chicago seeks a Senior Vice President, Director of Performance Measurement & Infrastructure to join Methods+Mastery. You will set the multi‑year vision, go‑to‑market strategy, and roadmap for data, infrastructure, and AI capability suites, and mentor a high‑performing analytics team.

You will lead practice growth, establish data governance, and cultivate high‑level client relationships across Fortune 50 stakeholders, architecting solutions in data engineering, ML

Qualifications

• 14+ years leading data infra, analytics, or data engineering in senior roles.
• Proven multi-million analytics practice growth with P&L responsibility.
• Executive presence to translate tech into strategic business imperatives.
• Deep familiarity with social listening tools and modern data stacks.
• Proven ability to scale analytics and engineering teams across levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership and growth strategy for analytics.
• Advise Fortune 50 clients on marketing tech, AI adoption, and data maturity.
• Shape IP, packaging, and pricing of intelligence products and pitches.
• Represent the firm as an industry authority on data architecture and AI governance.
• Lead enterprise architecture, measurement, and AI innovation.
• Oversee scalable IP offerings and bespoke client solutions.
• Define goals, KPIs, and measurement methodologies for deliverables.
• Direct vendor partnerships, cloud investments, and data governance.
• Co-lead Insights & Analytics org and manage VP/Director-level leaders.
• Collaborate across Planning, Strategy, Content, Communications, Ops, Accounts.

Skills

Data infrastructure leadership

Executive presence

People leadership

Social listening platforms

AI governance & ML

Tools

Brandwatch

Sprinklr

Talkwalker

Job description

Position Overview

Methods+Mastery is seeking a visionary, growth-minded Senior Vice President, Director of Performance Measurement & Infrastructure to join our leadership team. Reporting to Agency Executive Leadership, you will set the multi-year vision, go-to-market strategy, and overall roadmap for our agency's data, infrastructure, and AI capability suites. That vision includes hiring, developing, and mentoring a high-performing analytics team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, rigorous quality control, and intellectual curiosity.

Agency

Omnicom Public Relations

Job Function

Consulting

Job Subfunction

Business and Change Consulting

Job Description

Position Overview

Methods+Mastery is seeking a visionary, growth-minded Senior Vice President, Director of Performance Measurement & Infrastructure to join our leadership team. Reporting to Agency Executive Leadership, you will set the multi-year vision, go-to-market strategy, and overall roadmap for our agency's data, infrastructure, and AI capability suites. That vision includes hiring, developing, and mentoring a high-performing analytics team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, rigorous quality control, and intellectual curiosity.

In this role, you will lead the strategic expansion of our intelligence offerings, establish practice-wide data governance, and cultivate high-level relationships across Fortune 50 client stakeholders. You will lead, coach, and collaborate with a team of senior analysts and directors to architect solutions for agency-wide innovation across data engineering, modern machine learning models, autonomous agents, and enterprise measurement analytics.

Methods+Mastery is actively committed to increasing our team’s diversity, aggressively eliminating systemic barriers to equity, and fostering a culture where different backgrounds and perspectives are respected and celebrated. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and neurodivergent people.

Key Responsibilities

• Executive Client Leadership & Growth Strategy
• Client Advisory & Growth: Serve as an executive sponsor and primary strategic advisor to Fortune 50 clients, guiding their long‑term marketing technology, AI adoption, and data maturity strategies.
• Business Strategy & Development: Drive practice growth by shaping new IP, packaging, and pricing intelligence products, and leading pitch strategies for major enterprise agency proposals.
• Industry Thought Leadership: Represent Methods+Mastery as an industry authority on modern data architecture, AI governance, and social/marketing/communications intelligence trends.
• Enterprise Architecture, Measurement & AI Innovation
• Practice Vision & AI Strategy: Architect the overall vision for agency data capabilities, balancing traditional business intelligence workflows with next‑generation machine learning and autonomous AI agents.
• Scalable IP & Offerings: Guide the transformation of bespoke client solutions into proprietary, scalable, and automated agency products and offerings to meet our clients’ critical intelligence needs.
• Measurement Deliverables and Consultation: Act as a client and project lead analyst to develop goals, KPIs, and measurement methodologies, and to deliver a variety of products, including performance reports, cultural/trend analyses, audience profiles, influencer assessments, and other intelligence to inform and drive business objectives and decision making.
• Infrastructure Investment & Partnerships: Direct technical roadmap decisions, vendor alliances, cloud infrastructure investments, and data governance frameworks across the organization.
• Organizational Leadership & Organizational Growth
• Department Management: Co‑lead and scale the multi‑disciplinary Insights & Analytics organization, establishing career pathways and directly managing team members, including VP and Director‑level leaders.
• Executive Alignment: Partner seamlessly across Planning, Strategy, Content, Communications, Operations, and Account Management to ensure data infrastructure powers all agency disciplines.
• Culture & Inclusion: Drive an inclusive, high‑performing culture that prioritizes psychological safety, continuous learning, and equitable talent development.

Qualifications

Must‑Haves:

• Experience: 14+ years of experience leading data infrastructure, marketing analytics, or data engineering practices, with significant time spent in senior executive agency or management consulting roles.
• Practice Leadership: Proven track record of growing a multi‑million‑dollar analytics practice, managing department P&Ls, and scoping large‑scale enterprise project‑level and annual agreements.
• Executive Presence: Master‑level ability to synthesize and present complex technological capabilities (AI, infrastructure, pipelines) into strategic business imperatives for C‑level executives.
• Domain Mastery: Deep familiarity with social listening infrastructure, consumer intelligence engines (e.g., Brandwatch, Sprinklr, Talkwalker), custom database builds, and modern data stack ecosystems.
• People Leadership: Demonstrated success managing, scaling, and developing multi‑tiered analytics and engineering teams (VPs, Directors, Managers).

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Executive experience steering enterprise adoption of modern AI/ML frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLOps, Algorithmic Governance/XAI).
• Expertise in enterprise cloud strategies (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Direct experience leading measurement and analytics technical evaluations, vendor partnerships, or co‑development deals.

The anticipated salary range for this position is $160,000-215,000.

Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job‑related qualifications, and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available.

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.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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The anticipated salary range for this position is $160,000-215,000.

Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job‑related qualifications, and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available.