About the Role
As a Marketing Senior Data Scientist at Thumbtack, you’ll be expected to leverage your analytical expertise, marketing knowledge, and interpersonal skills to drive a variety of high-impact projects. You will embed directly with a growth marketing team to help optimize various marketing channels, drive personalization and discover new channels. Outside growth marketing work, you’ll contribute to our broader Data Science team and company data culture by sharing your learnings, partnering with others, and building new capabilities for how we can use data to guide decisions.
Responsibilities
- Provide a full suite of analytical support including analyzing user behaviors, identifying the target audience, campaign performance measurement, budget forecasting to marketing partners
- Identify opportunities and provide recommendations to optimize individual campaign as well as marketing channel mix
- Design and analyze experiments and other tests for causal inference
- Partner with MarTech stakeholders, PM, engineers, etc. to help scope new features, e.g., optimize performance via TV audience expansion, improve SEM auto-bidding
- Develop topic area expertise, e.g., campaign measurement, A / B testing, customer segmentation, targeting optimization
- In collaboration with cross-functional partners, build new solutions and capabilities to scale growth marketing
- Contribute to our team and company data culture through accessible data table design and maintenance
What you’ll need
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
5+ years of marketing data science / analytics experienceFamiliarity with digital marketing and experience with campaign measurement and performance optimizationExperience with running channel incrementality tests and building Marketing Mix ModelPassion for problem-solving, critical thinking, and data analyticsSharp business judgment and the ability to see past the noiseStrong communicator, attentive listener, and compelling explainerExpert in SQL, proficient in Python or R, proficient in Data visualization such as Looker, LookerStudio or TableauBonus points if you have
Experience in relevant tech companies, e.g., consumer-facing or marketplaceExperience in an analytical environment outside of analytics, e.g., management consultingBachelor’s or advanced degree (preferred) in statistics, math, data science, computer science, or economicsExperience in building various statistical and machine learning models, e.g. GLM, CLTV, statistical time series forecasting, attribution modelThumbtack is a virtual-first company, meaning you can live and work from any one of our approved locations across the United States, Canada or the Philippines.
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Benefits & Perks
Virtual-first working model coupled with in-person events20 company-wide holidays including a week-long end-of-year company shutdownLibrary (optional use collaboration & connection hub)in San FranciscoWiFi reimbursementsCell phone reimbursements (North America)Employee Assistance Program for mental health and well-beingLearn