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Director, Data Science


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Agency:

Omnicom Media

Job Function:

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction:

Data Science and AI



Job Description:

DirectorDataScience

Location: New York/Chicago/Los Angeles

Reports To:SeniorDirector Data Science

Department:Marketing Sciences and Technology

Position Type: Full Time

TheData Scienceteamispivotal in the delivery of modern agency services.We are tightly integrated withmarketing scienceteams to deliver on and exceed our clientsbusiness goals.

Responsibilities

External facing responsibilities:

  • Partner with Planning & Investment teams to provide expert hands-on and well as strategic Data Science support across the entire campaign lifecycle.

  • Build advanced ML models to cluster and segment audiences scale and deploy custom audiences across various platforms/ publishers

  • Run descriptive and diagnostic analyses to help measure campaign performance within clean rooms and/or other analytics platforms (e.g. Google ADH Facebook advanced analytics Amazon Marketing Cloud etc.)

  • Help develop strategic analytical roadmaps to institutionalize data driven outcomes

  • Excellent project management skills with an ability to set and achieve goals meet deadlines and act with a strong sense of urgency without compromising executional excellence

  • Leverage technical (coding) expertise to help bring about process efficiencies

Internal facing responsibilities:

  • Build and present decks that provide a compelling narrativeto decode complex analytical results to technical and non-technicalaudiences

  • Help design and developthe DS practice knowledge repositoryand delegate tasks to junior resources to support vision

  • Lead and train direct reports and manage their career progression

Required Skills

  • Hands-onprogramming languageskills (SQL Python Retc)

  • Experiencedinmachine learning techniques causal models etc.to support the analysis of information

  • Advancedpresentation andcommunicationskills

  • Experience working with non-technical teams

  • Clear understandingof digital clean roomsand their related concepts and strategy

  • Certifications in any of the following: Meta(Blueprint) SQL Python R (online)

  • Expert-level domain knowledge of business/industry

Education and Experience

  • A university degreein mathematics computer sciencestatistics or related fieldand7-10years ofexperience ininformaticsworkinacademiaadvertising management consulting marketing ordigitalconsulting

  • Knowledge of agency-side execution process is desirable but not required

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