Industry Architect – Advertising & Media
3mo ago
187200 –245700 USD / yearUSARemoteaidata cloud
Trusted technical partner driving industry-specific transformation in Advertising & Media by leveraging Snowflake's AI Data Cloud to unlock business value.
About the product
- 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.
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- At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
- Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology and careers to the next level.
- As an Industry Architect within the Industry and Data/AI Architect teams at Snowflake, you will be a trusted technical partner driving industry-specific transformation. Your goal is to help customers unlock measurable business value by adopting and building on Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.
- In this specific role, you will serve as the technical visionary for Advertising & Media . You will pivot away from pure platform engineering to focus on the buy-side and measurement ecosystem, working directly with global brands and media agencies . You will bring together deep expertise in media measurement, marketing science, and privacy-safe data collaboration with modern AI and data architecture to guide customers toward a future-proof media strategy.
- You will report to the Director of Industry Architects and work inextricably with the Marketing & Advertising Go-to-Market (GTM) cross-functional team to co-own account strategy and execution for advertising and marketing effectiveness use cases.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 is preferred.
- Help major brands and agencies understand how peers are adopting the AI Data Cloud for marketing and media.
- Show how Snowflake solves for fragmented media, consumer, and outcome data to support modern marketing science and measurement.
- Move customers from legacy, opaque “black box” measurement to transparent, data-driven frameworks that the brand owns and understands .
- Design architectures that unify media, commerce, CRM, and outcome data in a governed, privacy-safe environment.
- Determine how customers should integrate with DSPs, SSPs, measurement partners, and identity providers (e.g., LiveRamp, The Trade Desk, leading MMM/MTA and analytics platforms).
- Facilitate technical alignment between the customer, Snowflake, and the broader Advertising & Media ecosystem , including measurement and analytics partners.
- Design architectures for: Retail and Commerce Media Networks (RMNs) and co-op media models.
- Measurement frameworks that connect media, consumer journeys, and business outcomes.
- Privacy-safe collaboration between brands, agencies, publishers, and partners.
- Ensure customer architectures are compliant with privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, and others) and consent requirements while maximizing analytical utility and flexibility.
- Establish long-running relationships with Brand and Agency leadership to maintain a consistent vision across global business units and regions.
- Act as a long-term advisor on how to evolve marketing science, media measurement, and data collaboration using Snowflake.
- Drive strong alignment with the Marketing & Advertising Industry GTM, Product Marketing, and Alliances teams so that Snowflake shows up with a unified narrative in the market.
- Develop and maintain a clear point of view on industry trends such as data clean rooms, identity, data mesh, GenAI, and the evolution of linear and digital measurement.
- Frame these trends through an advertiser and marketing science lens , including case studies, implementation patterns, and tradeoffs.
- Bring in the wider Snowflake team to run hands-on labs, solution workshops, and Snowdays focused on measurement, marketing science, and media optimization.
- Complement the customer’s point of view with broader industry perspectives and practical solution patterns.