Principal Marketing Scientist

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Geico is looking to hire a Principal Marketing Scientist to join the Marketing team in leading complex data analysis of large datasets and development of statistical marketing measurement methodologies to drive business decisions, identify actionable insights, and create specific business value through deployed solutions.  This team works closely with Marketing Partners, Technologists, and Engineers. This position is responsible for mentoring Marketing Scientists.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborates with teams to define metrics, formulate strategies, and develop solutions to drive business value through effective use of data and modern statistical measurement methodologies. 

• Identifies, extracts, aggregates, and synthesizes data in a variety of structured and unstructured formats using SQL, or other appropriate language to enable analysis, development, and solution deployment.

• Lead the analyzation of large, complex datasets and IDENTIFIES meaningful patterns and features that lead to actionable insights and support data-driven solutions to business problems.

• Builds, tests, and validates advanced measurement methodologies using Python or R, or other appropriate language, as part of overall solution development.

• Interprets and communicates data findings and insights using visualization, formal presentations, written memos, and other appropriate formats.

• Lead implementation of solutions into production systems and reporting platforms by leading solution design, assisting in development of requirements, developing testing scenarios, and monitoring implementation results.

• Conducts data studies and data discovery of new data sources or new uses for existing data sources to create business value.

• Responsible for the assessment of long-term strategic goals and specific opportunities for business intelligence and automated solution development in conjunction with Business Partners, Technologists, Engineers. 

• Research and implement new methods to increase the quality and efficiency of solution development and promote best practices.

Requirements:

• Must be able to, with or without accommodation, perform the essential functions which include, but are not limited to seeing, hearing, typing, and speaking
• Must be able to use a PC
• Must be able to follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting skills
• Must be able to multi-task
• Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information, and to follow published standards and processes
• Must be knowledgeable of infrastructure tools and management techniques and able to follow standards and processes that have been published
• Must be able to provide systems training to team members as needed
• Must be able to communicate in a clear, concise, professional oral or written manner, to be understood by customers, clients, co-workers, and other employees of the organization
• Must be able to perform under pressure and stressful situations
• Must be able to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity to learn new technical concepts and to adapt to new technologies quickly
• Must have BA/BS in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Operations Research, Quantitative Marketing, or related field
• Preferred Experience:
  • 7+ years of professional experience programming in R or Python for the purposes of developing advanced analytical solutions, visualizations, reports, and presentations
  • 7+ years of professional experience utilizing SQL to work in enterprise database solutions
  • 4+ years of demonstrated experience in Marketing Science related solutions including, but not limited to: MMM, MTA, A/B Testing, Design of Experiments, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Attribution, Response Modeling, Uplift Modeling, Audience List Creation and Deployment, Identity Resolution, Econometric Modeling, or other applied marketing science solutions

Hybrid schedule: Three days a week in office

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Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.