Customer Data Strategist

Job Title
Customer Data Strategist

What you’ll build
The Customer Data Strategist partners closely with subject matter experts, marketing, sales, and technical stakeholders, advancing customer, account, and audience data capabilities across the marketing technology ecosystem. This role requires both

functional marketing knowledge and technical data expertise , with hands‑on experience across marketing data platforms and orchestration tools.

The ideal candidate combines a deep expertise in marketing data, customer identity, account intelligence, and journeys with the ability to translate business objectives into scalable data solutions. They understand the end‑to‑end customer data lifecycle - from acquisition and enrichment to identity resolution, segmentation, activation, and measurement – and can effectively navigate both strategic planning and hands‑on execution.

This role requires a well‑rounded data strategist who can operate across multiple domains while maintaining clear boundaries, governance standards, and long‑term vision.

Customer & Account Data Strategy:

Partner across organizations to maintain customer, account, contact, and profile data, inclusive of data quality standards, governance frameworks, and operational processes. This includes driving alignment across stakeholders to ensure consistent customer and account usage and definitions.

Contact & Account Intelligence:

Work across platforms including

6sense, SAP CDP, Marketo, Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO) ,

Adobe Customer Journey Analytics (CJA), and MDL

( Databricks ) to assist with account-to-contact matching methodologies and ensure consistent customer and account definitions across platforms. Help maintain data models and schemas, and ensure data is consistently represented.

Lead Capture & Form Strategy:

Connect the dots between data initiatives to maximize the customer experience and the data collection needs to progress contacts for data acquisition. Drive improvements in data collection quality and downstream usability.

Data Analysis:

Analyze customer data to support testing, optimization, and data-driven decision‑making. Monitor key data health metrics and champion continuous improvement.

What you bring

8+ years of experience in digital marketing with a focus on marketing operations, customer data, and marketing technology

Proven experience developing and implementing customer, account, and audience data strategies in complex enterprise environments

Strong understanding of customer identity, data governance, and marketing data architecture

Experience at the intersection of business strategy, marketing operations, and technology

Deep understanding of customer data ecosystems, identity resolution, data modelling, and data governance principles

Experience with 6sense, Bombora, G2, Trustradius and integrate

Involvement with Adobe Marketing solutions is a must, specifically with Adobe Experience Platform (preferred), Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Analytics (preferred), Adobe Target (preferred), Adobe Customer Journey Analytics (ideal), and Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B (preferred)

Knowledge or understanding of digital advertising, including Data Management Platforms (DMPs), Customer Data Platforms (CDPs)

Proficiency in working in data lakes, especially Databricks and the SAP HANA ecosystem

An interest in and knowledge of marketing technology and digital marketing tactics and best practices

Willingness to grow and learn in a highly demanding, fast‑paced organization

Global marketing experience in a highly matrixed, cross‑cultural, international company is a plus

Excellent written and verbal communication, project management, and organizational skills

Ability to present thoughts and plans in a visually compelling manner, meet or exceed deadlines, and manage multiple demanding projects simultaneously

Ability to think strategically, partnered with a

“roll up your sleeves”

ability to execute

Education and Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field required.

Advanced degree or relevant certifications in marketing technology, data management, or analytics are a plus.

Where you belong
The

Account & Audience Data Strategy (AADS)

team is responsible for defining, governing, and enabling the strategic use of

Contact, Account, and Profile data

across the organization. The team ensures that high‑quality, trusted data is available to support customer insights, audience segmentation, marketing activation, and data‑driven business decision‑making.

AADS establishes the strategy, standards, and governance frameworks that allow these core data domains to be consistently managed and effectively leveraged across platforms and teams. The team works cross‑functionally with business, product, and technology partners to enable scalable data capabilities and ensure alignment with broader marketing and enterprise data objectives.

The team is part of

Marketing Data Foundation & Strategy (MDFS) , which brings together three complementary areas:

Account & Audience Data Strategy (AADS) ,

Behavioural Data , and

Compliance . Together, these teams ensure that marketing data is reliable, strategically governed, and responsibly used to support SAP’s marketing and customer engagement goals.

Compensation Range Transparency
SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted annual combined range for this position is 142500-327100USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through theselection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance.

Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Requisition ID: 450584 | Work Area: Administration | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Nearest Major Market: Atlanta
Job Segment: ERP, SAP, Cloud, Testing, Strategist, Technology, Strategy

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