Data Scientist, Affiliate & Influencer Marketing Job at Acceleration Partners in

Overview

Remote – Work From Home. The Data Scientist role at Acceleration Partners (AP) is a remote, work-from-home position. Some travel may be required for internal meetings, conferences, and other events.

Role

Acceleration Partners is seeking a Data Scientist to join our growing team. This role will design, build and scale our proprietary enterprise platform, APVision, powering the future of affiliate and influencer marketing.

You will design, implement, and operationalize advanced statistical models, predictive algorithms, and experimentation frameworks that enable AP to deliver actionable intelligence to clients and internal teams. The ideal candidate combines strong technical acumen with a passion for solving complex business problems in marketing analytics.

Responsibilities

• Advanced Modeling & Prediction: Collaborate with development and analytics teams to build, validate, and deploy machine learning and statistical models (e.g., time-series forecasting, causal inference, marketing mix models) to predict partner and channel performance within APVision. Leverage Bayesian and other modern frameworks to solve ambiguous marketing challenges.
• Data Engineering & Transformation: Partner with data engineering to structure, clean, and transform large-scale affiliate, influencer, and retail media datasets for analytics and modeling. Contribute to improvement of pipelines and processes that support scalable experimentation and model deployment.
• Experimentation & Measurement: Design and analyze A/B tests, geo-experiments, and incrementality studies that measure the true impact of affiliate and influencer marketing campaigns. Develop new metrics and evaluation frameworks to track success and uncover anomalies.
• Strategic Insights & Recommendations: Translate model outputs into clear, actionable insights for clients and AP account teams. Partner cross-functionally with delivery, product, and strategy leaders to drive adoption of data-driven recommendations.
• Innovation & Thought Leadership: Research emerging methods and bring forward new approaches to attribution, forecasting, and ROI measurement across affiliate, influencer, and retail media. Contribute to AP’s reputation as a leader in data-driven marketing strategy.

What Success Looks Like

By 6 Months: Develop baseline predictive models for affiliate and influencer performance. Work cross-functionally to support campaign measurement and experimentation initiatives. Insights directly influence client strategies and internal product development.

By 1 Year: Own and continuously improve a suite of predictive models and measurement frameworks core to AP’s analytics platform. Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, bringing data-driven clarity to client strategy, product direction, and market opportunities. AP’s teams will use your outputs to guide client recommendations and strategic planning.

Qualities & Minimum Qualifications

• Strong sense of curiosity and intellectual rigor
• Ability to translate complex data into simple insights
• Confident and comfortable working in ambiguity
• Collaborative, adaptable, and outcome-oriented
• A builder’s mindset – willing to prototype, test, and iterate
• Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Engineering, or related quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience applying advanced analytics to solve business problems
• Proficiency in Python or R, SQL, and experience working with large-scale datasets
• Direct experience with affiliate, influencer, and marketing data — including transformations, attribution challenges, and performance measurement
• Familiarity with cloud-based data and analytics ecosystems, specifically AWS (Redshift, S3, Glue), SQL-based data warehouses, and BI/reporting platforms such as Power BI
• Strong ability to translate model results into business insights for both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering marketing mix modeling, incrementality measurement, or geo-experiments end-to-end
• Knowledge of Bayesian modeling frameworks and causal inference techniques
• Proven ability to design analytics solutions that influence business decisions
• Familiarity with affiliate, influencer, or retail media ecosystems is a strong plus

Why Acceleration Partners?

Acceleration Partners is the world’s largest and first-to-market Partnership and Marketing Agency creating and nurturing partnerships that drive measurable outcomes for their clients. They operate globally, with a focus on data-driven strategies that connect brands to the right consumers through performance partnerships, traditional affiliate, influencer, performance PR, content and B2B partnership marketing.

Perks & Benefits

• 100% remote work for everyone
• Group medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K with matching
• Open Paid Time Off
• Summer & Holiday wellness breaks
• Volunteer and Birthday Time Off
• Focus Fridays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness, Technology & Education Allowances
• Paid sabbatical leaves, donation matching, and more
• Target Salary Range: $120,000 – $140,000 depending on location and experience

Benefits may vary based on employment status or country location.