Associate Director, Analytics

• Support Foundational Day-to-Day Reporting Operations
• Stewardship of current client reporting deliverables
• Ensure accurate, timely & QA’ed data across paid media channels, site analytics, and relevant client business data (as available).
• Implement and enforce reporting standards (taxonomy/naming conventions, KPI definitions, UTM governance) to enable consistent analysis.
• Review performance data cuts (cross-channel, audience, creative, reach/frequency, efficiency/effectiveness) and translate findings into clear actions.
• Support monthly & quarterly reporting with executive-ready storytelling tied to client goals and media strategy.
• Support ad-hoc requests to provide analysis on performance questions
• Client and vendor partnership
• Interface with client analytics/insights/data teams to align on KPIs, data definitions, governance, and measurement plans.
• Coordinate with external vendors/platforms on data ingestion, study outputs, and interpretation, ensuring recommendations are methodologically sound and operationally actionable.
• Drive Strategic Elevation of Capabilities
• Operational streamlining
• Audit current reporting deliverables, capabilities, cadence and workflows
• Introduce solutions to streamline operations and reduce manual inputs
• Strategic roadmaps to elevate value and drive integration
• Partner with media leads and client stakeholders to refine measurement approaches and learning agendas; translate those into reporting structures, recurring readouts, and decision cadences.
• Identify measurement gaps and propose pragmatic fixes (tagging/event taxonomy, data access needs, vendor studies, or process improvements).
• Capability building for SCALE
• Scout and evaluate the MarTech landscape to elevate measurement solutions
• Contribute to development of measurement and reporting best practices and processes: templates, standards, dashboard patterns, automation opportunities, and documentation.
• Mentor media team through review, QA, and best-practice enablement (informal leadership; may not include direct people management).
• Identify and pilot AI-driven automation and advanced visualization tools to compress the reporting lifecycle, as applicable.

• A genuine desire to build and establish a best-in-class, standalone analytics and measurement offering with a high degree of ownership and initiative.
• 6+ years in media analytics, marketing analytics, measurement or agency/client analytics roles.
• Strong understanding of paid media metrics and measurement tradeoffs across channels.
• Proficient in building dashboards and some familiarity with Tableau/Datorama/Power BI/Looker/Looker Studio tools.
• Experience analyzing data across multiple media channels/platforms (Digital, Paid Social, Paid Search, CTV/OTT, LinearTV)
• Proven ability to lead an analytics workstream from ambiguous question to data to analysis to narrative to informing recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills (technical and non-technical audiences).

Candidates must be based in LA.