Associate Director, Data Strategy & Analytics

Kepler Group • New York, NY

71d • $117,000 - $140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Strategy & Analytics Associate Director plays a critical role in ensuring client and company success by understanding our clients tech, analytics and data strategy, defining a learning agenda that directly ties to clients core business questions and collaborating closely with internal teams and clients to deliver against it. You and your team will work to find insights that will improve and/or explain campaign and business performance, leverage innovative measurement technologies to make data-driven decisions, and recommend and implement new solutions where there are gaps in client tech. You'll have opportunities to build knowledge and expertise in specific solutions across reporting and visualization, MarTech tools, and measurement and will act as a leader and mentor for the analysts and/or managers on your team as well as the department more broadly.

Requirements

• 5-8+ years experience paid media/marketing analytics, statistics, digital media strategy, data science or ad tech
• Strong SQL knowledge with AMC (Amazon Marketing Cloud) and/or any data clean room experienced preferred to support junior team members in developing analysis
• Strong background in analytics, statistics or strategic insights generation
• Direct experience designing and measuring lift or incrementality experiments and familiarity with other digital marketing measurement solutions (e.g. MMM, attribution)
• Strong client presence; experience building relationships and driving change at senior levels within enterprise organizations
• Experience leading teams with proven ability to develop junior and mid-level staff
• Ability to apply innovative thinking to solve complex marketing challenges, developing and prioritizing analytical roadmap to inform team decisions and client outcomes
• Appetite for learning new technologies and interest in automating workflows through the use of AI
• Process and detail oriented; takes a 'roll up your sleeves' approach to leadership and best practice development
• Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills
• Effective time management skills - ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• BA/BS degree required

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior point of contact across an assigned client portfolio, with ultimate accountability for measurement strategy & technology and clear, accurate delivery of insights and reporting
• Collaborate with media and measurement partners to ensure effective adoption of the marketing technologies our teams leverage (ie: brand lift studies, data clean rooms, especially AMC, MMM partners)
• Work with your teams to effectively translate data into information, quickly identifying and clearly communicating the 'so what' to senior client leaders
• Directly lead a team of 3-5 analysts and managers and, as a leader, provide strategic guidance and thought leadership across Kepler's functional teams
• In partnership with senior leadership, guide our departmental best practices, team staffing, training and development
• Act as an early adopter for Kepler's proprietary marketing tools & technologies, providing critical feedback to progress our toolkit and encouraging adoption across the organization
• Inspire, coach and mentor staff across multiple disciplines

Benefits

• Healthcare/Dental/Vision
• Unlimited PTO
• 401k Contributions
• $100/mo Mobile Phone Stipend
• $50/mo Internet Stipend
• $200/yr Home Office Equipment Stipend
• $500/yr Annual Learning Stipend
• $2,000/yr Annual Education Stipend
• Parental Leave - 16 week primary caregiver / 6 week secondary caregiver leave
• Annual Work From Anywhere 4 weeks per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees