Managing Partner - Data, Analytics and Gen AI

We are a creative, media, and technology agency building the next generation of AI-powered solutions for brands. This role leads our Data, Decision Science, and Gen AI practice, with full P&L ownership, revenue targets, and delivery responsibility.
This is not a CDP/CRM or traditional MarTech role. The focus is on analytics-led decisioning and Gen AI use cases across creative and media—from content scaling and personalization to media intelligence and marketplace optimization.
You will build products, win business, deliver impact, and scale a high-performing team.

Job Description:

What You Will Own

Business & P&L Leadership

• Own theData & Gen AI practice P&L, including revenue, margins, utilization, and growth

  
  
  

• Build and chaseannual revenue targets through new client acquisition and expansion

  
  
  

• Shapecommercial models for AI products, platforms, and services

  
  
  

• Partner with agency leadership on practice strategy and investment decisions

  
  
  

Solutioning & Sales

• LeadAI-led solution design for pitches, RFPs, and proactive proposals

  
  
  

• Translate brand, creative, and media problems intoclear AI-powered business solutions

  
  
  

• Act as aclient-facing leader in senior conversations, QBRs, and steering committees

  
  
  

• Balance ambition with feasibility—what can be soldand delivered credibly

  
  
  

Gen AI & Analytics Capability

• Define and deliverGen AI use cases across:

  
  
  

  • Creative content scaling & adaptation

    
    
    

  • Personalization at scale (creative + media)

    
    
    

  • AI-assisted creative tools and workflows

    
    
    

  • Media analytics, optimization, and intelligence

    
    
    

  • Marketplace and commerce media performance optimization

    
    
    

• Builddecision science and advanced analytics frameworks that directly impact marketing outcomes

  
  
  

• Move beyond experimentation toproduction-grade AI systems

  
  
  

Product & IP Development

• Conceptualize and buildAI accelerators, tools, and platforms

  
  
  

• Drive products fromidea → prototype → client deployment → scale

  
  
  

• Decide when to build, partner, or leverage existing AI models and platforms

  
  
  

• Ensure solutions arerepeatable, defensible, and commercially viable

  
  
  

Delivery & Execution

• Ownend-to-end delivery of AI and analytics engagements

  
  
  

• Ensure solutions areengineered properly, scalable, and secure

  
  
  

• Balance speed with robustness—POCs that convert into real systems

  
  
  

• Maintain delivery quality while scaling multiple clients and products

  
  
  

Team Building & Leadership

• Build and lead an initial5–10 member team, scaling over time

  
  
  

• Hire across engineering, data science, analytics, and AI solution roles

  
  
  

• Set technical standards, ways of working, and delivery rigor

  
  
  

• Develop talent that understandsboth AI and creative/media contexts

  
  
  

What We’re Looking For

Must-Have Capabilities

• Proven experience owning or leading aP&L-backed analytics / AI practice

  
  
  

• Strong background inanalytics, decision science, or applied AI

  
  
  

• Hands-on exposure toGen AI systems (LLMs, orchestration, model integration)

  
  
  

• Experience buildingAI solutions for marketing, creative, media, or commerce

  
  
  

• Ability tosell, solution, deliver, and scale—not just advise

  
  
  

• Comfort operating in ambiguity: you canseek, solve, sell, and ship

  
  
  

Engineering & Technical Depth

• Strong engineering mindset (even if you no longer code daily)

  
  
  

• Experience with modern AI/data stacks

  
  
  

  • GCP preferred (BigQuery, Vertex AI, etc.), but not mandatory

    
    
    

• Understanding of:

  
  
  

  • LLMs and multimodal models

    
    
    

  • AI orchestration and production deployment

    
    
    

  • Data pipelines, analytics layers, and performance systems

    
    
    

• Knows the difference betweendemos, pilots, and production systems

  
  
  

Creative & Media Adjacency

• Genuine understanding ofcreative workflows and media ecosystems

  
  
  

• Experience applying AI to:

  
  
  

  • Creative operations and content pipelines

    
    
    

  • Media planning, optimization, and insights

    
    
    

  • Commerce and marketplace media

    
    
    

• Able to collaborate seamlessly withcreative, media, and strategy teams

  
  
  

Leadership & Mindset

• Builder mentality with commercial sharpness

  
  
  

• Comfortable being accountable for numbers, not just ideas

  
  
  

• Clear communicator who can translate AI intobusiness outcomes

  
  
  

• Bias for action: moves fast, learns fast, delivers faster

  
  
  

What This Role Is Not

• Not a CDP/CRM or MarTech implementation role

  
  
  

• Not a pure research or experimentation lab

  
  
  

• Not a support function—this is agrowth and revenue engine

  
  
  

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to build acategory-defining AI practice inside a creative + media environment

  
  
  

• Freedom to shapeproducts, IP, and teams

  
  
  

• Direct access to senior clients and large transformation mandates

  
  
  

• Rare chance to sit at the intersection ofAI, creativity, media, and business impact

  
  
  

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