Applied Scientist II - Brand Marketing (US&C) - ABBTECH : Job Details

About the Role

We're looking for an Applied Scientist to join our Brand Science team and provide strategic insights, measurement, and optimization for a large brand marketing budget. In the role, you'll be part of and collaborate with a cross-functional team consisting of marketing, research, media and creative. As a member of the brand science team, you will not only be able to perform complex analyses exploring our large and rich dataset, but also shape marketing and measurement strategy. You'll play a big role in finding opportunities to help the marketing function scale as we develop the global Uber brand.

You will cover the US & Canada, supporting measurement, optimization and strategy for all brand marketing in the region. Beyond designing measurement and experimentation plans for campaigns, you will analyze effectiveness data across campaigns, understand customer behavior to inform campaign tactics, and perform ad hoc analysis to address overarching questions.

Problems we're working on include:

The ideal candidate combines deep experimentation knowledge with outstanding stakeholder management skills and strong business acumen to help align learning agendas with strategic priorities. You are skilled in translating a stakeholder's questions into a data-based analysis or experimentation plan, clarifying the question we want to answer and identifying the right data to answer exactly that question.

What You'll Do

• Design measurement and optimization for a large brand marketing budget, using a toolset ranging from experimentation to survey-based methods and causal inference

• Work closely with our media, research and marketing teams to develop actionable customer insights and recommendations to guide high level marketing strategy and inform improvements through the course of the campaign lifecycle

• Leverage rich internal databases to mine patterns on winning marketing tactics and understand customer behavior to inform marketing briefs

• Leverage causal inference models for advanced campaign measurement and optimization

• Tackle open-ended questions about marketing effectiveness, interaction effects, incrementality & related topics

• Regularly present insights and learnings to executive leadership

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields

• Experience with data analysis and visualization tools, such as Python, R

• Experience with SQL on large multi-table data sets

• In-depth understanding of and experience with experimental design

• Familiarity with causal inference and econometrics techniques to measure incrementality

Preferred Qualifications

• Intellectual curiosity and a demonstrated ability to provide thought partnership to executive stakeholders

• Excellent communication skills to understand stakeholder needs, set expectations around feasibility, translate business challenges into research questions, and present findings to non-technical audiences

• Ability to translate data science findings into strategy

• Experience identifying and adapting to imperfect data

• Experience with marketing analytics, marketing measurement or market research - including survey-based measurement tools

• Understanding of capabilities offered by publishers including ad products, brand lift and measurement solutions

• Someone who is willing to contribute new ideas and articulate them to a variety of business partners and not just execute on existing ones

• The ability to balance attention to detail with swift execution, including the ability to deliver on tight timelines

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$155,000 per year - USD$172,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form-