Director of Data Science
Lead and grow a data science team building predictive models for credit risk, payments, and consumer financial products. Drive adoption of AI tools and partner with product/engineering on roadmap and impact.
Director, Data Strategy
Lead data strategy initiatives for data feeds business serving marketing, consumer insights, and financial services clients. Drive technical partnerships, product development, and cross-functional collaboration with 8+ years in digital advertising or data businesses.
Chicago, ILNew York, NYData ScienceOnsite8+ YOE
About the role
Responsibilities
- Conduct exploratory data evaluations on new transaction datasets to identify strengths and opportunities
- Partner with Sales to develop multi-product commercial models for clients
- Build strategic plans for growing the data feeds business through TAM expansion
- Articulate technology nuances of data feed products to technical client leaders
- Develop analyses on internal datasets to identify improvements for existing products
- Collaborate with Product and Strategy to design custom data solutions for clients
- Manage high-impact technical partnerships with major platforms from scoping through deployment
Requirements
- Extensive experience in digital advertising or data businesses with deep understanding of data feeds ecosystem
- Experience working with transaction data in companies that own, buy, or sell data
- Ability to solve complex technical challenges and communicate effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Translate client business needs into technical solutions and articulate value to senior executives
- Anticipate technical roadblocks and drive proactive solutions for integrations
- Proven track record working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Engineering, Data Science, and account management
- Highly organized with ability to thrive in fast-paced environments
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in digital advertising or data businesses
- Strong knowledge of advertising, consumer insights, or data feeds industries
- Hands-on experience with identity and data connectivity platforms, cleanrooms, and privacy-preserving data workflows (e.g., LiveRamp, Snowflake, InfoSum)
- Demonstrated success managing technical partnerships with platforms such as Meta, Google, The Trade Desk, Amazon, Paramount, Disney
- Proven experience managing technical teams and projects
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with Python
Skills
SQLPythonLiverampSnowflakeData FeedsTransaction DataCleanroomsPrivacy-Preserving Data Workflows
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