Root Inc. · 2 hours ago
Senior Data Science Manager, Performance Marketing
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$178K/yr - $245K/yr
7+ years expRoot Inc. is an innovative insurtech company focused on revolutionizing the car insurance industry through technology. The Senior Data Science Manager, Performance Marketing will lead a team to improve marketing strategies and operational processes while ensuring rigorous measurement of business impact in performance marketing.
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Responsibilities
Advance Root’s performance marketing engine through improved bidding strategies, automation, and applied machine learning
Lead a team of 3-5 data scientists and machine learning engineers accountable for the deployment and performance of a nine-figure annual marketing budget
Drive fast, disciplined experimentation across channels and partners, with clear measurement of incremental impact on growth and profit
Make operationally critical decisions under uncertainty, balancing speed, risk, and rigor
Partner with cross-functional leaders to influence priorities and deliver high-impact initiatives
Define quarterly and annual roadmaps for performance marketing, translating business goals into prioritized modeling, measurement, and infrastructure enhancements
Maintain a high standard of operational excellence across the team
Qualification
Required
Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (PhD preferred) and 7+ years of applying advanced quantitative techniques to problems in industry
3+ years in a leadership role, with a track record of growing talent, scaling team impact, and delivering strategic outcomes
Demonstrated experience building, validating, and applying statistical machine learning methods to industry problems
Excellent command of AWS (or analogous) utilities, e.g., EC2, SageMaker, S3, Athena
Excellent written and verbal communication skills: communicates effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
Comfort leading across multiple concurrent initiatives while maintaining clarity and momentum
Strong ownership mindset, proactively identifying high-impact opportunities and driving them through execution
Ability to consider problems from first principles, with the instinct to use expertise and prior experience to guide but not dictate the solution
Preferred
Insurance industry experience
Experience owning and operating systems that support large-scale customer acquisition
Full funnel marketing experience: developing, executing, and measuring the impact of targeted, data-driven marketing strategies
Benefits
Bonus and LTI eligible
Company
Root Inc.
Root Inc. is disrupting the archaic, trillion-dollar insurance industry.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Chief Technology Officer
Megan Binkley, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
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