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Director of Analytics
Horizon Media
New York, NY, United States
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Horizon Media, Inc., headquartered in New York City, is the largest independent media services company in the world. We are looking to hire a Director of Analytics. This person will be a senior member of the growing quantitative research team responsible for developing business tools and providing analyses to drive profitable decisions for Horizon’s clients. This is a very visible and significant role where the right person will make a broad impact.
Responsibilities:
-This is a hands-on position requiring modeling, coding, and working with large datasets.
-The Director of Analytics will be directly involved with client engagements and needs to provide guidance and analytic support to the client teams.
-She/he must provide creativity in approach and rigor in execution, employing sophisticated econometric models.
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Desired Skills and Experience:
• Advanced degree, MS or PhD, in a quantitative discipline.
• 5+ years of experience building econometric marketing models.
• Fluency in econometric methods including Bayesian statistics, discreet choice models, VAR, etc., and with an understanding of their application to marketing science.
• A desire to understand the roots of a challenge and to build robust models that capture the key dynamics.
• A broad understanding of the media space including digital, traditional and social media.
• Proficiency in analytic software such as R, Matlab, Eviews, and SAS.
• Ability to code in R, Python or some other language.
• Team player and able to collaborate effectively with the quantitative group and with team members with strong but non-technical expertise.
• Always looking to learn to teach.