Data Scientist, Affiliate & Influencer Marketing

Remote – Work From Home

The Data Scientist role at Acceleration Partners (AP) is a remote, work-from-home position, as are all positions at AP (a structure central to our culture and vision to change the work/life paradigm). 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 be instrumental in designing, building and scaling our proprietary enterprise platform, APVision, will 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

• Collaborating with the development teams and analytics teams, you’ll be building, validating, and deploying 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 AP’s reputation as a leader in data-driven marketing strategy.

What Success Looks Like

By 6 Months

• You will have developed baseline predictive models for affiliate and influencer performance.
• You will be working cross-functionally to support campaign measurement and experimentation initiatives.
• Your insights will be directly influencing client strategies and internal product development.

By 1 Year

• You will own and continuously improve a suite of predictive models and measurement frameworks that are core to AP’s analytics platform.
• You will serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, bringing data-driven clarity to client strategy, product direction, and market opportunities.
• AP’s teams will be using your outputs regularly to guide client recommendations and strategic planning.

Qualities of the Ideal Candidate

• 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

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• 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 exceptional measurable outcomes for their clients. Managing clients in 40+ countries, their global team of 300+ focuses on data-driven strategies that help connect brands to the right consumers through performance partnerships, traditional affiliate, influencer, performance PR, content and B2B partnership marketing. Serving over 200 brands with household names like Amazon, Target, Google, Warby Parker, Crocs, Reebok (to name a few) their diversified staff is creating what’s next in the industry by building balanced portfolios of high-performing partnerships. As the only truly integrated global partnerships agency, Acceleration Partners prides themselves on being on the cutting edge of new industry developments, and leveraging their proven expertise to bring unique solutions to the most complex challenges for brands who aim for growth. 

AP PERKS & BENEFITS – WHAT WE OFFER

• 100% remote work for everyone
• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage insurance (with opt-out benefits)
• 401K with matching
• Open Paid Time Off
• Summer & Holiday wellness breaks in July and December
• Volunteer and Birthday Time Off
• Focus Fridays
• Paid Parental Leave Benefits
• 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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