Strategic Data Partnerships Lead

Epsilon; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Comprehensive health coverage

401(k)

Job summary

Epsilon is seeking an Advisor, Data Partnerships to own day-to-day relationships with a portfolio of strategic data partners. You will manage onboarding, issue resolution, and quarterly business reviews while coordinating with Product, Engineering, Privacy, and Sales to maximize partner value.

In this role you will become the internal SME on partner capabilities, data assets, and commercial considerations, driving growth and ensuring high-quality data delivery and governance across the ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in data partnerships, ad tech, martech, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of ad tech, data integration, identity, and activation.
• Ability to become the internal SME for assigned partners, including data assets, use cases, and commercial considerations.
• Experience managing external partner, vendor, data provider, technology, or research relationships.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across data, technology, product, commercial, client, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience coordinating partner onboarding, launches, issue resolution, business reviews, and service-level follow-up.
• Strong attention to detail across data delivery quality, partner documentation, and operational follow-through.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for translating complex data topics for internal stakeholders and clients.
• Sound judgment to operate through ambiguity and balance interests of multiple parties.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day partner management for an assigned portfolio of strategic data partners, including relationship management, onboarding, issue resolution, business reviews, renewal support, partner growth planning, and cross-functional coordination with Product, Engineering, Privacy, Legal, Sales, and Client teams.
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert for assigned partners, with deep knowledge of each partner’s data assets, commercial terms, use cases, limitations, operational processes, and strategic value to Epsilon.
• This role drives partner performance, adoption, and value realization by ensuring accountability, renewal readiness, and growth while enabling leadership to focus on portfolio strategy.

Skills

Partner management

Data partnerships

Relationship building

Cross-functional collaboration

Business growth

Onboarding & renewal

Job description

Epsilon is seeking an Advisor, Data Partnerships to own day-to-day relationships with a portfolio of strategic data partners. You will manage onboarding, issue resolution, and quarterly business reviews while coordinating with Product, Engineering, Privacy, and Sales to maximize partner value.

In this role you will become the internal SME on partner capabilities, data assets, and commercial considerations, driving growth and ensuring high-quality data delivery and governance across the ecosystem.