Senior Manager, Digital Customer Journey Data Science
AdobeAbout the role
The Opportunity
Adobe is hiring a Senior Manager, Digital Customer Journey Data Science who will lead a team dedicated to the end-to-end customer journey. This role highlights acquisition and gross new ARR growth. This role will drive insights and decision-making throughout the entire funnel—from traffic, conversion, trials, and purchase to product usage, retention, migrations, and long-term customer value.
This is a strategic people leadership role at the intersection of data science, business strategy, and go-to-market execution. You will lead all aspects of a group of data scientists while partnering closely with Finance, Marketing, GTM, Sales, Product, and Strategy leaders to identify growth opportunities, improve customer experiences, and influence business outcomes.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of data scientists and senior data scientists.
- Drive insights across the full customer journey, with a strong focus on acquisition, conversion, trials, and gross new ARR.
- Identify key drivers of customer behavior across traffic, purchase, usage, retention, and migrations.
- Lead the team’s run-the-business cadence, delivering weekly performance insights, a clear and aligned narrative on drivers of performance, and actionable recommendations on risks, opportunities, and growth unlocks.
- Partner with Marketing, Finance, GTM, Sales, and Product to build strategy, prioritize opportunities, and inform investment decisions.
- Lead measurement and experimentation efforts, including funnel analysis, A/B testing, and impact assessment.
- Define and track key business metrics, diagnose performance drivers, and provide clear recommendations to senior leaders.
- Improve analytical rigor, business storytelling, and the use of advanced analytics to scale decision-making.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- 10+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or a related quantitative field, with 4+ years of people management experience.
- Proven success leading and developing teams of data scientists in a fast-paced business environment.
- Strong understanding of digital acquisition, lifecycle management, retention, and subscription or product-led growth models.
- Demonstrated ability to connect customer behavior and funnel metrics to business outcomes such as conversion, retention, and ARR growth.
- Experience driving business performance rhythms, including recurring performance reviews, executive updates, and insight generation that informs near-term actions and longer-term strategy.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills and experience influencing senior collaborators across Finance, Marketing, Product, GTM, and Sales.
- Solid foundation in analytics and data science methods, including experimentation, forecasting, segmentation, and predictive modeling.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python or R, along with experience using visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
- Excellent communication skills, executive presence, and the ability to translate complex analysis into clear business recommendations.
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field required; advanced degree preferred.
About Adobe
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