Hearts & Science is seeking a data science expert to inform brand strategies with real-time insights and deliver on clients' business goals by providing technical subject matter expertise and data science thought leadership.
Requirements
- Hands-on programming language skills (SQL, Python, R, etc)
- Demonstrated experience with machine learning techniques, causal models, etc. to support the analysis of information
- Clear understanding of digital clean rooms, and their related concepts and strategy
- Certifications in any of the following: Meta (Blueprint), SQL, Python, R (online)
- Expert-level domain knowledge of business/industry
- Knowledge of agency-side execution process is desirable, but not required
Responsibilities
- Provide technical subject matter expertise and data science thought leadership within assigned accounts.
- Partner with Planning teams to support end-to-end audience strategy by leading the data source onboarding, leveraging advanced ML techniques to build, scale and deploy audiences across various platforms/ publishers
- Partner with the Activation team to help develop best in class technical solutions to optimize campaign performance
- Provide SME for developing short, medium and long term analytical and clean room roadmaps
- Contribute to building the data science practice by providing technical oversight to other DS team members across the agency
- Stay 'in the know' and on top of latest trends in the various industries/verticals to be able to seamlessly translate business problems into analytical solutions.
- Provide data science support for account and agency growth opportunities.
Other
- A university degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field, and 15+ years of experience in informatics work in academia, advertising, management consulting, marketing or digital consulting
- Presentation and communication skills
- Experience working with non-technical teams
- People Management: Coach and mentor direct reports by supporting their career progression. Help with task delegation and assignment across the practice for ad hoc requests as needed.
- Three (3) days per week in the office, with flexibility to align with team needs.
