Vice President - R&D

Company Description

Dentsu International is a modern marketing solutions company. Our mission is to help clients navigate, progress and thrive in a world of change. Businesses rely on our integrated network of agencies and specialized practices to champion meaningful progress through creative, media, commerce, data, and technology. Part of Dentsu Group, our global network comprises 66,000 diverse people in 143 countries, who are dedicated to teaming for growth and good. Some of our award-winning agencies include 360i, Carat, dentsumcgarrybowen, DEG, dentsuX, iProspect and Merkle. Follow us on Twitter @DentsuUSA and visit dentsu.com/us.

We are champions for meaningful progress and we aim to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can excel. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

Job Description

The R&D team is an brainstorming center within the Product group with experience in prototyping and scaling out ideas to full-fledged tools and systems that deliver sustained value for dentsu as an agency and its clients. The problems tackled are in planning and optimization of media investments across traditional and digital media, and strategies to personalize creative, content, and context for custom audiences. The increasing personalization of Television viewing offers a unique opportunity to blend digital strategies (programmatic, search, social) into media planning and optimization. This is a remote position, reporting to EVP, Head of R&D. You will not have managerial responsibilities.

Skills for Success

• You will have experience asking good questions of people, processes, and data.
• You will abstract out the essence of a business problem, and the pathway to solving and scaling the solution(s) for sustained value.
• You will have a toolbox of solution techniques, preferably with formal rigor, in the statistical and optimization sciences.
• You will translate from technical jargon to business communication for influencing stakeholders.
• You will have ease and familiarity in working with technology (tools, libraries), as adequate for promoting success of analytic solutions, and experience adapting existing/new solutions.
• You will have a curiosity and interest in the design of a system, regardless of scale, and the importance of UI/UX.
• You will have visualization skills for enhancing discovery, communication, and repeatability of insights.
• You will have an interest in modern domain-independent, non-interpretive solution architectures preferred in machine learning and language models.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Masters degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Operations Research, or the Social Sciences , OR Masters in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
• Experience in an R&D setting, with experience with design, development, and deployment (desirable) of statistical/optimization solutions.
• 10+ years of hands-on working experience in Data Science capacity, three years working with people data – CRM, identity graphs, ad-tech/mar-tech log-level data, respondent-level panels, etc.
• Foundation in either Python or R
• Experience handling vague, ill-defined business problems, to deliver effectiveness gains to business processes.
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Additional Information

The anticipated salary range for this position is $196,000 - $316,250. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

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About dentsu
Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

Dentsu, Innovating to Impact.

Find out more:
https://www.dentsu.com/
https://www.group.dentsu.com/en/

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact your recruiter if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.