
Marketing Data Science Lead
UpGuard
Marketing Data Science Lead
UpGuard is seeking a Marketing Data Science Lead to join their Marketing team in a fully remote role. The role involves quantifying marketing performance, building attribution frameworks, and creating data models and insights to drive business value. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of analytics experience in a high-growth SaaS company, strong marketing domain expertise, and proficiency in dbt, BigQuery, and modern BI tools.
Marketing Data Science Lead
UpGuard is seeking a Marketing Data Science Lead to join their Marketing team in a fully remote role. The role involves quantifying marketing performance, building attribution frameworks, and creating data models and insights to drive business value. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of analytics experience in a high-growth SaaS company, strong marketing domain expertise, and proficiency in dbt, BigQuery, and modern BI tools.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Generate compelling and actionable insights from complex, multi-source marketing data sets that directly inform channel investment, campaign design, and pipeline strategy.
- Establish strong collaborative relationships with marketing leaders and operators across demand gen, partner, field, product marketing, and brand, delivering high-impact analytics initiatives that translate loose, evolving requirements into clear deliverables.
- Design, build, and maintain the attribution framework for UpGuard – spanning first and multi-touch attribution and incrementality testing – and clearly communicate the trade-offs and assumptions behind each lens.
- Develop a deep, first-principles understanding of channel logic across paid media, organic, content, lifecycle, partner, and field, and build the metrics, models, and dashboards that let each program owner self-serve their performance.
- Partner with the data engineering team to design, construct, and maintain foundational marketing data assets – translating loose marketing requirements into well-specified dbt models and a governed semantic/metrics layer that both humans and AI agents can reliably query and traverse.
- Partner strategically with marketing stakeholders to provide robust self-service and conversational and agentic analytics capabilities, using design thinking principles to build user-friendly dashboards for funnel performance, channel ROI, partner sourced pipeline, and field event attribution.
- Personally conduct thorough, hands-on, technical analysis to diagnose and solve the most significant marketing challenges – from channel saturation and diminishing returns to lead quality decay and campaign cannibalisation.
- Provide ongoing operational support to the commercial growth of the organisation, connecting marketing investment to pipeline, ARR, and payback in ways that finance and the executive team trust.