Digitas North America · 9 hours ago
Lead Data Scientist
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$112K/yr - $172K/yr
7+ years expDigitas North America is the Networked Experience Agency focused on creating magnetic experiences for brands. The Lead Data Scientist will develop and implement multifaceted solutions for complex marketing and business challenges, leveraging data engineering, machine learning, and AI to deliver analytic solutions across various client applications.
Marketing & Advertising
Responsibilities
Owning end-to-end analytical projects involving data engineering, data mining, data modeling, and business strategy
Providing Internal expertise in fundamental skill areas such as statistical methods, machine learning, AI, distributed computing, and open-source programming
Providing thought leadership and innovation in process, technique, and implementation
Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to establish clear analytical objectives, approaches and timelines
Summarizing, visualizing, communicating and documenting analytic concepts, processes and results for technical and non-technical audiences
Sharing knowledge, debating techniques, and conducting research to advance the collective knowledge and skills of our Data Science practice
Qualification
Required
Rigorous analytic training and 7+ years professional experience in a data science or analytics role
Robust domain expertise in areas of statistical methods, machine learning, AI, distributed computing, and/or open-source programming languages
Experience integrating a variety of data sources, methods, and applications to achieve specific objectives
Experience implementing a range of statistical or machine learning methods, from basic descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing and feature transformation to complex dimension reduction, supervised or unsupervised learning, and model tuning and validation
Proficiency in Python or R, SQL, and distributed computing systems such as Hadoop or AWS
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Demonstrated passion for marketing analytical applications
Demonstrated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment with flat structure
Preferred
Familiarity with Linux and/or Spark
Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation
Benefits
Medical coverage
Dental
Vision
Disability
401K
Parental and family care leave
Family forming assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible time off
Company
Digitas North America
Digitas North America is the Connected Marketing Agency that provides digital media, and creative development.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Megan Jones
Chief Media Officer
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