Vigil

Senior Data Scientist

Vigil

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🏈 Anywhere in North America

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

NumpyPandasPythonScikit-LearnSQL

About the role

  • Own the design and rollout of advanced marketing effectiveness measurement, covering marketing mix modelling (MMM), incrementally/causal-lift testing, and geo-based experiments
  • Produce actionable insights that guide both strategic choices and day-to-day optimisation across multiple channels
  • Partner with marketing, finance and commercial teams to steer the allocation of substantial budgets and maximise impact in a competitive market
  • Innovate new approaches to measuring ROI and attribution in a privacy-conscious environment
  • Translate complex analyses into clear, decision ready recommendations for senior stakeholders
  • Mentor and support other data scientists and analysts in developing advanced experimentation and modelling skills

Requirements

  • 3+ years in data science/analytics, with 2+ years focused on marketing effectiveness
  • Hands-on experience building and validating MMM (e.g., adstock/saturation, regularisation/priors, holdouts/back-tests)
  • Practical expertise with incrementality/causal-lift testing and geo-experimentation (e.g., DiD, synthetic control, matched markets)
  • Strong Python and SQL; comfort with common stats/ML libraries (e.g., pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, statsmodels, PyMC or similar)
  • Proven ability to translate model outputs into budget recommendations, channel mix and ROI/elasticity insights
  • Solid experiment design skills (power, sample sizing, guardrails, success criteria) and interpreting noisy real-world data
  • Experience working with multi-channel marketing data (search, social, display, affiliates, TV/OOH, CRM/app)
  • Ability to present complex results simply to senior non-technical audiences and influence decisions
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required
  • Strong verbal and written English communication skills
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work independently as well as in a team-oriented environment
Benefits
  • Be part of our collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally amongst colleagues and help create our company culture
  • A culture in which we don’t criticise failure but ensure we learn from our mistakes
  • An Agile environment where your ideas are welcome
  • The possibility to grow and experience different projects
  • Ongoing Training & Mentoring
  • The possibility to travel

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
marketing mix modellingincrementality testingcausal-lift testinggeo-experimentationPythonSQLpandasNumPyscikit-learnstatsmodels
Soft skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillsmentoringteamworkindependenceinfluencing decisionstranslating complex analysesproducing actionable insightsoptimisation