Data Science Manager (Marketing)

Moniepoint is a global fintech building modern financial services for millions of people and businesses across high-growth markets. They are seeking a strategic and hands-on Data Science Manager (Marketing) to lead data initiatives, drive data strategy, and collaborate with the Marketing team to execute their marketing strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts
• Develop and execute a comprehensive data strategy - design what world class looks like
• Hire, develop, and retain a high performing team of data professionals
• Champion and drive a culture of rigorous experimentation, including A/B testing, to inform product development and business decisions
• Oversee the end-to-end ownership, design, development, and maintenance of scalable and reliable data pipelines
• Drive the generation of actionable insights from data to support various business functions, including product, marketing, risk, and operations
• Liaise with marketing, product, and engineering managers to ensure we collect the right data for meaningful business insights
• Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development
• Build a strategic understanding of the business and structure complex projects to bring them to life

Requirements:

• Proven experience (typically 8+ years overall and +2 years in management / in data leadership roles)
• Strong focus on strategy, execution, and team management
• Expertise in experimentation methodologies and A/B testing frameworks (multivariate, geo-holdouts, etc, variance reduction techniques)
• Ability to create data pipelines (including designing/architecting them - ETL/ELT) - especially using cloud platforms (we use Clickhouse and Bigquery here)
• Confidence with data Science tools languages (Python and SQL)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Experience working in marketing and using advertising data from platforms such as Facebook