Principal, Quantitative Analytics and Data Science

About this role:

Gartner for Marketers is looking for a Principal, Data Scientist to join our Quantitative Innovation team. You will work with data scientists, data engineers, data interactives designers, product managers, and researchers to produce compelling data insights, enable user accessibility to enriched data, use Machine Learning to investigate research hypotheses, and contribute directly to the innovation of our scaled data tools, platforms, and pipelines (front-end/back-end/reporting).

What you will do:

As you contribute to our scaled automated data insights, you will directly impact Gartner for Marketers’ research agendas covering a wide range of topics related to the digital marketing performance of thousands of brands, and you will work directly with our internal data users to produce innovative, provocative findings for our published research on Gartner.com.

You have a passion for advanced statistics and data analysis paired with strong analytical capabilities and experience in data science-driven research production processes to help us create and deliver groundbreaking insights and best-in-class benchmarking. You will help drive advanced machine learning and data engineering techniques, data product management, and benchmarking methodologies across a wide range of data assets. You are an exceptionally creative problem solver with a desire to lead as a full-stack data scientist in a very collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new and support existing analytics & machine learning pipelines (from data ingestion to visualization) with a focus on the data transformation and enrichment layer.

• Collaborate with peers in Research and Enterprise Technology to prioritize, plan and iteratively release products within Gartner for Marketers’ data product suite.

• Assist and guide internal users (researchers & analysts) toward statistically sound, publishable, data-driven insights.

• Identify and improve process inefficiencies and lead team best practices and documentation.

• Research and build innovative data solutions and tools with a mind for trends in digital marketing and marketing technology.

Job requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree/Certification in a quantitative field or relevant academic/professional experience.

• 3+ years of experience in data science/machine learning engineering and/or comparable quantitative academic research experience.

• Advanced Python & SQL.

• Advanced data prep skills: ad hoc & automated cleaning, normalization, staging, feature engineering, etc.

• Researching, designing and developing ML models and pipelines.

• Supervised & unsupervised ML capabilities: regression, clustering, classification, topic modeling, NLP.

• Solid understanding of LLMs and their optimal implementation strategies.

• Quantitative research methodology design experience, and familiarity with qualitative research methodologies.

• Dashboarding & data visualization skills (Tableau, PowerBI, etc)

• Comfortable with version control, experiment tracking, and continuous integration tools/systems.

• Experience with PyTorch/TensorFlow.

• Comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders across levels.  

• Exceptional critical thinking/problem solving skills.

• Business acumen.

• Team player

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Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work? 

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our cli