Director, Advertising Data Science

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Inc. is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and it's AR glasses, Spectacles.

The Director will be the go-to partner for senior executives across sales, finance and product (PMM and Marketing Science) and will lead one of the data science teams responsible for DS support of advertising revenue growth. The team is responsible for developing advanced data science methods to aid in audience, campaign, inventory insights and understanding, ad investigations, novel insights about our product and a deeper understanding of audience targeting and campaign related activities’ impact on performance.

This person will focus on driving business outcomes through strategic analyses aimed at delivering actionable and compelling insights to our advertising partners across formats, targeting, and business platform improvement. This person will advance the entire organization’s understanding of who our ad clickers are, how our audience stands out against competitors, identifying trends that matter and  insights aimed at advancing our understanding of customer engagement with our advertising.

The Director will lead an experienced team of data scientists and analysts aimed at increasing business results through the combination of statistical rigor, technical capabilities, strategic data analysis, clear and compelling findings and fast paced execution. 

What you’ll do:

• Distinguish Snap from other ad platforms and advise on performance, approach and audience using data and through compelling insights. 

• Partner with Product and Engineering to build client facing data tools and capabilities which help grow advertisers’ understanding of our platform and audience. 

• Partner across the organization. Develop and maintain relationships with senior executives in the business lines, ensuring their priorities are addressed.  

• Maximize analytics value by improving data management, data quality and governance.

• Build a high-performance team of data scientists and analysts.

• Deliver insightful analysis and recommendations that can be acted upon by the partners at all levels.

• Clearly articulate the approach and the findings of interpretable analytical models and drive the continuous refinement of what should be tracking and reporting.

• Be hands-on and work with massive datasets with superior analytics skills. 

• Drive pragmatic approaches to solving key complex business problems through data analysis, predictive modeling and machine learning techniques.

• Manage multiple teams on different projects, ensuring timeliness and successful completion.

• Aid in integrating data science learnings/models with the technology tools to make insights actionable and results accessible to non-data people. 

Knowledge Skills and Abilities: 

• Must be consultative in nature, with a proven track record of using data to achieve actionable results

• Demonstrated experience in hiring, retaining, growing, and scaling diverse, geographically dispersed, high-performing DS and DE teams.

• Proven experience influencing strategy and driving change with senior executives across org boundaries through clear and compelling communication of data-driven insights and analyses.

• Experience in ML modeling, forecasting, data management, data quality and data/analytical governance tools and frameworks

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a quantitative discipline

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Several years of experience in data science, including hands on project experience

Preferred qualifications:

• 10+ years of work experience managing Data Science teams, working collaboratively with Product and Business teams, and guiding data-influenced product and business planning, prioritization, strategy, and execution.

• Masters Degree or PHD in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a quantitative discipline.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. 

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

The base salary range for this position is $334,000-$500,000 annually.

Zone B:

The base salary range for this position is $317,000-$475,000 annually.

Zone C:

The base salary range for this position is $284,000-$425,000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.