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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

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