Remote Data Science Manager: Investment Analytics

Jellyfish; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible working hours

Caregiver leave (paid)

Job summary

Jellyfish, a global digital marketing agency, is seeking a data scientist to join the Investment Analytics practice. Reporting to the Director of Data Science, you will lead advanced measurement, experiments, and predictive models to improve media performance for clients.

You will work with platform partners on Incrementality testing, provide replicable analytics, and communicate insights with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data analysis.
• Experience with data roles (3–5 years).
• Experience visualising data with Tableau/Looker/Matplotlib or equivalents.
• Knowledge of marketing ecosystem and measurement frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Analyse data to discover hidden trends and deliver actionable insights.
• Explain and promote data science methodologies such as geo-based incrementality and MMM.
• Develop and implement predictive models to improve media performance and outcomes.
• Collaborate with platform partners to expand techniques for Incrementality Testing and Data Clean Rooms.
• Document analytics projects to enable replication and scaling.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data visualization

Machine learning basics

Tools

Tableau

Looker

Matplotlib

Amazon Marketing Cloud

Google Analytics

Campaign Manager

Meta

Job description

Jellyfish, a global digital marketing agency, is seeking a data scientist to join the Investment Analytics practice. Reporting to the Director of Data Science, you will lead advanced measurement, experiments, and predictive models to improve media performance for clients.

You will work with platform partners on Incrementality testing, provide replicable analytics, and communicate insights with cross-functional teams.