Data Scientist, Media Consultant New York, NY

About the role

Join our Media Science team as a Data Scientist, Media Consultant. You will work alongside data analysts, data scientists, media strategists, media buyers, and software engineers to plan and optimize advertising dollars. Your role is on the "Buyer Science" team, specializing in media measurement, data analysis, experimental design, and campaign optimization.

Responsibilities

• Work hand-in-hand with Known’s media strategists, media channel experts, and directly with clients to elevate their media performance and drive real business value.
• Conduct analyses in service of campaign optimization, surface insights that go beyond media metrics to incorporate first party data, and help drive business strategy.
• Collaborate with media planners and channel teams to ensure media allocations are built scientifically.
• Manage the performance of media campaigns and present to clients in a way that is engaging and persuasive.
• Create interactive data tools that are delivered to clients, such as dashboards for marketing campaign performance, media experiments, or simulation tools.
• Communicate technical information with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Manage the quality and accuracy of data sources and downstream analytics.

Requirements

• A degree from a well-regarded college or university, with STEM degrees preferred.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience doing quantitative analysis, statistical modeling, optimization, and/or statistics.
• Experience utilizing Python and SQL.
• 1+ years of experience building data science software.
• Experience in strategy consulting, marketing, and/or marketing research, with specific passion and background in technology and/or media.
• Understanding of the advertising and media landscape, especially as pertains to measurement vendors and ad platforms.
• Superb communication and presentation skills, with a specific fluency in talking about strategic business problems – combining analytical reasoning with practical understanding.
• Experience in making appropriate research or analysis recommendations for these business problems.
• Proficiency in Google products (Sheets, Documents, Slides) and/or Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Ability to think strategically, analytically, and proactively about diverse business problems.
• Prior experience with MCI in creating interactive data tools.

Qualifications

• Passion for managing the quality & accuracy of data sources and downstream analytics.
• Experience working on a variety of projects simultaneously and delivering results on a deadline.

Skills

• Project management and ownership.
• Understanding of client's overall business objectives and translating them into a campaign and measurement strategy.
• Writing reports and presenting to clients in a way that is engaging and persuasive.
• Statistical analysis of complex datasets.
• Managing the ingestion and cleaning of new datasets relevant to your work / projects.
• Creating reproducible work through common coding languages (Priority: Python and SQL).
• Working with other data scientists and engineers to productionalize new tools.
• Interpreting data to understand the business implications of the research.
• Framing analyses, stories, and slides for client media plans and reports.
• Serving as the key client point of contact on campaign measurement, optimization, and data infrastructure.

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off.
• 401k with company matching and no vesting period.
• Annual bonuses.
• Generous medical plan.
• Paid parental leave.

Pay

$120K - $130K base salary.

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule with some remote options.