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Partner Intelligence Lead II – Ads
Affiliate ManagerAffiliate MarketingFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
California + 18 moreAll locations: California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington
Posted
76 days ago
Salary
$127K - $170K / year
Bachelor Degree4 yrs expEnglishAirflowBig QueryPythonSQLTableau
Job Description
• Own the intelligence behind our Ads agents.
• Design the Ads semantic/context layer and build vertical AI agents that analyze campaigns, diagnose performance, and recommend actions that improve ROAS, pacing, and partner outcomes.
• Partner with Ads GTM, Product, Data Science, and Engineering to ship production agents with measurable lift.
• Define Ads ontologies and metrics for campaigns, budgets, bids, creatives, audiences, and placements.
• Build dbt models and curated marts in Snowflake with clear data contracts, tests, and SLOs.
• Ingest and enrich unstructured Ads content and publish retrieval-ready datasets using managed search/vector services.
• Design and evaluate retrieval workflows (RAG) with existing services for hybrid search and re-ranking; set quality/latency targets and iterate via experiments.
• Design agent reasoning and policies on ads, including tool definitions and human-in-the-loop approvals.
• Establish evaluation suites covering precision/recall, calibration, hallucination rate, latency, and cost.
• Run A/B or uplift experiments to quantify impact and guide iteration.
• Translate Ads problems into agent behaviors and own KPIs such as ROAS lift, pacing accuracy, RCA precision/recall, forecast MAPE, and time-to-insight.
Job Requirements
- 4–7 years in analytics engineering, data science, or applied AI with strong SQL and Python.
- 2+ years of domain expertise in ads, retail, or e-commerce data.
- Advanced Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience using dbt and Snowflake or BigQuery, including skills in data modeling, testing, and managing data contracts.
- Deep Expertise in orchestrating data pipelines using dbt and Airflow
- Experience with at least one data visualization tool (Tableau, Mode, Power BI, Looker, or similar)
- Ability to design offline/online evaluations and run A/B or uplift tests
- Fluency in Ads analytics concepts such as ROAS, CPA, CTR, CVR, LTV, pacing, auction dynamics, and incrementality.
- Strong stakeholder communication with a track record of shipping production data or AI systems that drove business impact.
- Understanding of ML models to drive recommendations on bid, keywords, and budgets
- Experience with evaluation and guardrail frameworks and human-in-the-loop QA.
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
- Flexible work arrangements
- Remote work options