Ibotta is seeking a Principal Decision Scientist, Client Analytics to join our team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. In this role, you will be an Individual Contributor leading and mentoring others by example through the delivery of best-in-class analytics solutions and actionable insights for our Clients (which include manufacturers, brands, retailers and third-party publishers). This is an opportunity to leverage your experience and talent to make an enormous impact on our rapidly growing Client relationships and revenue.
The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of bringing actionable insights and analytics solutions to external clients. You will be leveraging data to build out new and innovative analytical products and capabilities, proactively identifying and communicating data-driven insights, presenting these findings to technical and non-technical external clients and internal teams. In partnership with the Client Analytics and Revenue leadership teams, you will also be responsible for defining and executing on our Client Analytics roadmap.
This position is available in multiple locations:
Denver, Colorado - if you are in or willing to relocate to the Denver area, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday).
Remote options are available for the following cities - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, NYC, Newark/Jersey City, and Atlanta
If you’re not in the Denver metro area or the listed cities, relocation reimbursement to Denver is available.
What you will be doing:
Provide proactive, high-impact analytics insights to help Ibotta's most important clients
Work in partnership with high-value client account teams to optimize client success on Ibotta platforms
In collaboration with internal partners and Client Analytics leadership, own Ibotta’s promotions and media measurement solutions by conceptualizing, designing, and providing external clients industry-leading and market-defensible methodologies that power Ibotta’s measurement solutions; partner cross-functionally to build scalable solutions
Regularly communicate with external clients to understand their business and program goals (especially around incremental revenue), present analytical results, insights and recommendations, and help them determine how Ibotta can be best leveraged to achieve their goals
Research industry trends and standards to stay abreast of new developments; position Ibotta as a thought leader by combining your expertise with our incredible data asset to strategically deliver favorable marketing outcomes for advertisers
Drive internal projects forward through planning, executing, and completing projects within an agreed upon timeline
Uncover inefficiencies and bring forward analytics solutions to scale the business and better leverage our high-potential data asset
Mentor junior colleagues of the Client Analytics team
Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere
What we are looking for:
10-15+ years in Decision Science roles of increasing responsibility & impact
Bachelor’s degree in computer science/mathematics/statistics/data science required
Extensive analytics domain experience in the CPG space
Robust familiarity with industry-standard attribution and measurement models such as MMM and incrementality
Expert-level decision science knowledge, skills, capabilities, etc.
Significant experience creating a compelling client-facing story using data and insights
Expert visual and verbal communicator; an experienced presenter to senior executive levels
Independent, self-starter who can successfully manage one's own time and multitask
Client-facing experience a requirement; consulting background a strong plus
Advanced experience using modern data analysis and pipeline tools (Python, Databricks, Hive, Spark, Airflow, GitHub etc)
Advanced experience with modern BI tools (Mode, Looker, Tableau, etc)
Proven expertise using SQL to wrangle, clean, and query large datasets
Expert knowledge of A/B testing best practices
Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time for client meetings and engagements
About Ibotta ("I bought a...")
Ibotta (NYSE: IBTA) is a leading performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). The IPN allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale. American shoppers have earned over $1.8 billion through the IPN since 2012. The largest tech IPO in history to come out of Colorado, Ibotta is headquartered in Denver, and is continually listed as a top place to work by The Denver Post and Inc. Magazine.
To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.
Additional Details:
This position includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, Employee Stock Purchase Program, and 401k match. Denver office perks include paid parking, bagel Thursdays, snacks and occasional meals.
Base compensation range: $150,000 - $170,000. Total compensation for this role also includes a variable component in addition to base salary. Equity is included in overall compensation package. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience.
Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Applicants are accepted until the position is filled.
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