Hybrid Director, Yield Analytics

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About the role

  • Director of Yield Strategy at Walmart Connect, leading teams on pricing, forecasting, and packaging strategy for ad inventory. Drive analytics and cross-functional collaboration for maximum revenue and advertiser value.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data scientists and analysts focused on ads pricing, inventory forecasting, and packaging strategy.
  • Set the strategic direction for ad pricing, inventory packaging, and promotional opportunities.
  • Oversee the development and implementation of advanced machine learning models for ad inventory forecasting.
  • Guide the creation of advertising packages and promotional opportunities for Sales.
  • Present strategic recommendations and insights to executive leadership.
  • Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in retail media, programmatic advertising, and data science.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Computational Biology, or related discipline).
  • 8+ years of quantitative or data science working experience.
  • 6+ years of online advertising industry working experience preferred with an understanding of advertising KPIs.
  • Deep understanding of retail media, programmatic advertising, and digital ad inventory management.
  • Experience with common machine learning techniques and forecasting models especially time series forecasting.
  • Experience in data science programming languages (Python or R), and experience with SQL and relational databases.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data visualization skills.
  • Proven track record of building and leading high-performing analytics and data science teams.

Benefits

  • Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
  • Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
  • Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
  • Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
  • Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.

Job title

Director, Yield Analytics

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$156,000 - $338,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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