[Remote] Industry Architect – Advertising & Media
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Snowflake is empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential by seeking AI-native thinkers. As an Industry Architect in Advertising & Media, you will drive industry-specific transformation and help customers unlock measurable business value through Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.
Responsibilities
- Drive engagement with the world’s largest advertisers and agency holding companies across brand, performance, and advanced analytics teams
- Build trusted relationships with Chief Data Officers, CMOs, Heads of Analytics/Marketing Science, and Enterprise Architects, acting as the bridge between media strategy, marketing science, and technical implementation
- Help customers re-architect how they plan, measure, and optimize media investments using Snowflake
- Translate complex advertising and marketing questions such as signal loss, cross-channel attribution, incrementality, reach and frequency, audience quality, and business lift into data-driven architectures and analytical frameworks
- Design end-to-end blueprints for Media Mix Modeling (MMM), Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA), incrementality testing, and unified measurement using Snowflake, Python, and modern ML techniques
- Architect solutions that leverage Data Clean Rooms, privacy-enhancing technologies, identity resolution, and AI/ML to connect exposure, consumer, and outcome data in a privacy-safe way
- Lead strategic initiatives by creating repeatable solution assets, such as: Marketing effectiveness and MMM frameworks that connect media impressions to sales and business KPIs
- Audience and identity architectures that unify first-party, partner, and platform data
- Commerce/Retail Media Network blueprints when relevant to advertisers and their partners
- Simulation, optimization, and scenario-planning solutions that help clients test investment strategies against business goals before activation
- Help shape new solution concepts from idea to prototype to customer validation, working closely with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to bring new measurement and optimization capabilities to market
- Build demo showcases and reference implementations that prove how AI agents, automation, advanced analytics, and SaaS-style analytical workflows can transform media planning, optimization, and reporting
- Act as the voice of the advertiser and marketing science leader to Snowflake’s product engineering teams
- Provide structured feedback on the specific needs of marketers and analytics leaders, including: Privacy and governance controls, Statistical and modeling workflows for MMM and incrementality, Non-technical user experiences for marketers and media teams
- Drive technical thought leadership in marketing science and media measurement for the Advertising & Media industry
- Author technical blogs, reference architectures, and best practices on topics such as MMM, MTA, unified measurement, marketing mix optimization, and data clean rooms
- Speak at major industry and analytics events (e.g., IAB, ANA, Cannes Lions, AdWeek, POSSIBLE, Gartner Analytics & Measurement, MAICON) and lead field enablement to upskill the sales organization and partner ecosystem
Skills
- 10+ years in architecture, marketing science, or technical consulting roles within the advertising and media ecosystem, with specific experience on the buy-side: Enterprise brands, media agencies, or consulting firms serving them or Adtech, measurement/currency, or analytics companies implementing solutions directly with media buyers and marketing leaders
- Strong grasp of media and marketing measurement methodologies, including: Media Mix Modeling (MMM) and budget optimization, Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) and identity/attribution models, Incrementality and lift studies (geo experiments, holdouts, causal inference), Reach & frequency, audience quality, and outcome-based KPIs
- Experience leading or guiding marketing science teams that own these models and explain their business impact to executives
- Sophisticated understanding of the transition away from third-party cookies and device IDs
- Hands-on familiarity with: Data Clean Rooms (DCRs) and collaboration patterns, Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), Identity resolution and use of identity providers, clean room partners, and platform IDs
- Strong knowledge and experience with SQL and Python for building analytic data sets, running models, and operationalizing measurement workflows
- Experience working within cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their services
- Ability to review and guide data models, pipelines, and analytics code with both internal teams and customer data/analytics groups
- Understanding of how Machine Learning and Generative AI apply to advertising and marketing, including: Propensity and response modeling, Churn and lifetime value prediction, Audience and lookalike modeling, Budget allocation, scenario planning, and optimization
- Comfort explaining model design, tradeoffs, and limitations to non-technical stakeholders and aligning them to business outcomes
- Experience in a customer-facing role with the ability to: Whiteboard complex, end-to-end architectures for CTOs, CMOs, and Heads of Marketing Science, Translate those architectures into clear narratives about business value, risk, and impact on media ROI
- A Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics, economics, or a related field is required
- A Master's degree (or equivalent advanced degree) in a quantitative or business discipline
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