Senior Manager, Data Science Services

Role Overview

• Lead a portfolio of data science services engagements for strategic customers, from scoping through delivery, ensuring projects meet agreed business outcomes, timelines, and quality standards.
• Translate client business objectives into rigorous analytical designs and experimentation frameworks that leverage LiveRamp’s identity, measurement, and data collaboration capabilities.
• Own executive‑level client relationships for your projects, including setting expectations, communicating results and tradeoffs, and influencing senior stakeholders using clear, data‑driven narratives.
• Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering to design and package repeatable data science offerings that drive adoption and revenue for LiveRamp.
• Build and manage a high‑performing team of data scientists and analytics consultants through hiring, coaching, goal‑setting, and ongoing performance management.
• Establish and continuously improve delivery standards, best practices, code templates, and documentation for experimental design, modeling, and analytics on LiveRamp’s platform.
• Define and track key performance indicators for your portfolio (e.g., project margin, on‑time delivery, NPS/CSAT, incremental revenue delivered for clients) and use them to guide prioritization.
• Review and challenge analytical work products, ensuring statistical rigor, appropriate methodology selection, and clear articulation of assumptions, limitations, and business implications.
• Advocate for clients and delivery teams in internal roadmap discussions, translating emerging client use cases into product feedback and new service opportunities.
• Contribute to thought leadership by developing case studies, playbooks, and internal training that scale advanced analytics and experimentation skills across Global Services.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or applied statistics roles, with at least 3 years leading analytics or data science teams in a client‑facing or consulting environment.
• Proven track record of delivering measurable business impact through experimentation, predictive modeling, or advanced analytics in domains such as marketing, adtech, retail, financial services, or consumer technology.
• Strong proficiency with Python, PySpark for data science and exceptional SQL skills suitable for working with large, complex datasets.
• Strong knowledge of statistical modeling and machine learning techniques, especially regression, classification and time‑series analysis.
• Experience using modern data and analytics tools and frameworks (for example, Spark, dbt, Jupyter, or BI tools such as Looker or Tableau).
• Hands‑on experience designing and analyzing experiments (for example, A/B tests, holdout tests, or geo‑tests) and causal inference methods.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders through clear storytelling, data visualization, and structured recommendations.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects or programs, including scoping, estimation, resource planning, and risk management in a professional services or consulting context.
• Comfortable working with cloud‑based data and analytics environments and collaborating with technical stakeholders such as data engineers, solution architects, and product managers.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related discipline.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• PySpark
• Python
• Spark
• SQL
• Tableau

Benefits

• Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
• Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
• LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives.
• Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
• Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers).
• A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located.