Brainlabs - Director, Data Science

• An MMM Expert: You have extensive, hands-on experience with Marketing Mix Modelling, including working knowledge of Meridian, Robyn, and/or PyMC, and a track record of delivering MMM projects that have driven real client decisions. • An MMM Expert: • Technically Proficient: You are fluent in Python and experienced with GCP, with a strong grounding in Bayesian statistics and the principles underpinning modern media attribution. • Technically Proficient: • AI-Forward: You actively explore how AI tools can augment data science practice, from speeding up code development and model documentation to helping non-technical stakeholders engage more confidently with complex outputs. • AI-Forward: • A Skilled Communicator of Complexity: You can take the output of a sophisticated model and tell a story with it that a CMO finds compelling and a media team can act on, without sacrificing the integrity of the underlying analysis. • A Skilled Communicator of Complexity: • An Experienced Team Leader: You have led teams of data scientists, with a genuine commitment to their development and a clear view of what good technical mentorship looks like. • Commercially Astute: You understand how data science creates commercial value for clients and for Brainlabs, and connect technical decisions to business outcomes in conversations with senior stakeholders. • Commercially Astute: • A Practitioner-Leader: You remain close to the technical work, not just the management of it, and hold yourself to the same standard of rigour you expect from your team. • A Practitioner-Leader: • How you succeed • How you succeed • Client Outcomes: Clients can point to specific budget decisions informed by your modelling work, and you can evidence the incremental value delivered through the projects you lead. • Client Outcomes: • Model Quality: Every MMM deployment you oversee meets a documented quality standard, with calibration, validation, and scenario outputs that you and your team can defend under scrutiny. • Model Quality: • Clear Communication: Your data science outputs land with senior client stakeholders, evidenced by positive feedback and by clients returning to Brainlabs for further analytical work. • Clear Communication: • AI Adoption: You achieve documented AI adoption across the data science team's workflows, with clear evidence of time saved or quality improved as a result. • AI Adoption: • Team Development: The data scientists in your team are growing in capability, and you can point to specific examples of how your leadership has raised their technical standards or broadened their skills. • Team Development: • Practice Growth: You contribute to at least one new business pitch per quarter and publish thought leadership that builds Brainlabs' data science credentials in the market. • Practice Growth: • Commercial Impact: The data science practice grows its revenue and client base under your leadership, and you can evidence progress against agreed commercial targets over time. • Commercial Impact: • What happens next? • What happens next? • We know searching for a job is tough and that you want to find the best career and employer for you. We also want to ensure that this position is the best fit for both you and us. Therefore, you will participate in a comprehensive interview process that includes skills interviews with our team. The goal of this process is to allow you to get to know us as we learn more about you. • Brainlabs actively seeks and encourages applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and identities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace: we are committed to equal opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the application process, please let us know! • Please note that we will never ask you to transfer cash or make any other payment to us in order to apply for a role or to work for Brainlabs. Any such asks are fraudulent and should be reported to the appropriate authorities in your area.