Acceleration Partners is hiring: Data Scientist, Affiliate & Influencer Marketin

Data Scientist, Affiliate & Influencer Marketing

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Remote Work From Home. Some travel may be required for internal meetings, conferences, and other events.

The 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, to power 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.

Top 5 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 the 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 building APs reputation as a leader in data-driven marketing strategy.

What Success Looks Like

By 6 Months: Baseline predictive models for affiliate and influencer performance developed; cross-functional collaboration to support campaign measurement and experimentation initiatives; insights influencing client strategies and internal product development.

By 1 Year: Own and continuously improve a suite of predictive models and measurement frameworks core to APs analytics platform; serve as a trusted advisor to leadership; outputs guide client recommendations and strategic planning.

Qualities of the Ideal Candidate

• Curiosity and intellectual rigor
• Ability to translate complex data into simple insights
• Comfort working in ambiguity
• Collaborative, adaptable, and outcome-oriented
• Builders mindset willing to prototype, test, and iterate

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• Masters 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 with large-scale datasets.
• Direct experience with affiliate, influencer, and marketing data including transformations, attribution challenges, and performance measurement.
• Familiarity with 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 a global Partnership and Marketing Agency delivering measurable outcomes for clients across 40+ countries with a focus on data-driven strategies that connect brands to consumers through performance partnerships, affiliate, influencer, and related channels.

Perks & Benefits

• 100% remote work for everyone
• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 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.

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