Data Strategist
As a Data Strategist, you transform raw audience signals into clear, compelling narratives that steer marketing and product decisions. Leveraging advanced quantitative analyses and human-centered qualitative research, you pinpoint behaviors, surface growth opportunities, and craft data-backed recommendations that boost engagement, retention, and revenue. You'll partner with cross-functional teams-marketing, product, media, and analytics engineering-to turn complex datasets into actionable roadmaps that keep our brand ahead of shifting consumer trends.
What You Will Do:
- Data Driven Analysis & Insight Generation: Translate conceptual questions into data-driven analyses that deliver meaningful quantitative insights and recommendations.
- Narrative Development & Actionable Recommendations: Build compelling storiesvia executive memos, reports, or presentationsthat culminate in clear, action-oriented guidance.
- Cross-Functional Solution Collaboration: Partners with sales, analytics, product, and client teams to shape, validate, and steer modeling efforts into cohesive, client-ready solutions.
- Consultative Mindset & Communication: Deliver data-driven guidance to clients, prospects, and internal teams with a client-success mindset, using clear, persuasive storytelling in every interaction.
- Strategic Alignment: Understand how individual work supports broader Acxiom and IPG objectives and market positioning.
- Product & Industry Mastery: Deepen expertise in Acxiom offerings, direct-marketing strategies, and overall industry dynamics.
- Continuous Learning & Thought Leadership: Maintains a growth mindset-continually learning and sharing insights on emerging consumer and marketing trends in the audience and data strategy space
Key Responsibilities:
- Client Engagement & Solutions Development: Lead discovery sessions with clients to clarify objectives, identify data gaps, and define audience-segmentation frameworks.
- Utilize audience and data analysis tools and products to support sales efforts, including product presentations, data & identity solution recommendations and proposal creation tailored to address client needs.
- Craft level appropriate narratives that pair quantitative insights with phased, ROI-backed recommendations.
- Strategic Alignment: Understand the broader Acxiom & IPG strategies and how individual contributions align with organizational goals.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and innovation within sales support management.
- Collaborate with product management on the development of new products and services.
- Continuous Education: Track emerging trends across channels, consumers, and competitors to contribute to thought leadership and playbooks to raise audience-data literacy across internal and client teams.
What You Will Have:
- 5+ years working with consumer data with a focus on marketing application and usage.
- Knowledge of consumer data and identity landscape in the United States.
- Experience in solutions based sales support role, with a proven track record of success.
- Understanding of direct marketing principles, digital media applications, and industry trends.
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
- Strategic mindset with strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to work both solo and in team setting to achieve client and organizational goals.
- Detail-oriented approach, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions to complex challenges.
- Strong working knowledge Office365, AI tools, data visualization tools and ability to learn proprietary toolsets for developing audiences.
- Experience in marketing driven work such as audience design & segmentation, personalization, optimization and measurement.
- Ability to travel