Senior Vice President, Analytics

Zeno Group • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Zeno Group is seeking a Senior Vice President, Data & Intelligence to serve as a senior strategic leader within the agency's growing analytics and intelligence practice. This role involves working closely with clients, agency leadership, and cross-functional teams to translate data into actionable insights that strengthen reputation, improve performance, and drive business outcomes. It's an opportunity for a hands-on analytics leader to shape client strategy, grow business, mentor talent, and help define the future of data, intelligence, and AI-enabled insights within a leading communications agency.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in analytics, intelligence, research, measurement, communications, marketing, or related fields within an agency, consulting, or client-service environment.
• Deep expertise in communications analytics and their associated platforms, including measurement, earned media analysis, social intelligence, audience research, reputation analytics, digital performance, and business intelligence.
• Experience advising senior clients and guiding data-informed decision making.
• Experience leading business development efforts across organic and net new opportunities, including strategic planning, proposal development, consultative selling, and new business pitches.
• Strong understanding of integrated communications and the role analytics plays across earned, owned, shared, and paid channels.
• Experience working with business intelligence, analytics, and reporting platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, Hex, GA4, SQL, R, or similar tools.
• Strong presentation, storytelling, and communication skills, with the ability to make complex findings accessible and actionable for diverse audiences.
• Experience leveraging AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve research, reporting, and insight generation.
• Collaborative leadership style with experience mentoring talent and partnering across disciplines, functions, and levels.
• Commitment to analytical rigor, data quality, and delivering meaningful business impact through insights.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting integrated communications, public relations, corporate affairs, or marketing programs.
• Familiarity with attribution modeling, campaign measurement, and cross-channel performance analytics.
• Experience evaluating and implementing AI-enabled analytics workflows and emerging technologies.
• Experience working with third-party technology vendors, data providers, and platform partners.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior advisor to clients, providing executive-level counsel on analytics, measurement, intelligence, and data-driven communications strategy.
• Oversee integrated measurement, audience research, media intelligence, social listening, reputation analytics, digital performance, and AI-enabled insights programs.
• Translate complex data into clear recommendations, helping clients connect communications performance to business objectives and stakeholder outcomes.
• Lead analytics discovery conversations, develop measurement frameworks, and identify opportunities to grow client relationships, expand engagements, and support new business efforts.
• Mentor and develop team members while fostering analytical rigor, strategic thinking, storytelling excellence, and strong client leadership capabilities.
• Partner across corporate, consumer, healthcare, technology, digital, paid media, and creative teams to deliver integrated measurement and intelligence programs.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, APIs, and emerging technologies to improve research, reporting, insight development, and decision-making.
• Help shape the future of the practice by identifying emerging trends in analytics, measurement, reputation intelligence, AI, and communications effectiveness.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Prescription plans
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Paid subscription to Headspace
• Access to mental health providers and other services through a best-in-class employee assistance program
• Generous vacation
• Paid holidays
• Self-care time
• 401(k) plan
• Pretax flexible spending accounts
• Tuition assistance
• Life insurance
• Free access to a certified financial coach
• Monthly allowance for ZenoFit program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed