We are looking for a Senior Manager, Measurement Science to lead a small, high-impact team delivering measurement studies and proactive insights to our key accounts. This is a client-facing leadership role that also leads and manages a small portfolio of your own key accounts. You will manage day-to-day workflow, own key deliverables, and partner with senior business development leaders to shape measurement strategy. Accounts will largely be focused on the Media & Entertainment vertical (supporting TV networks, streaming services, and movie studios), and may also include supporting non-entertainment accounts in the automotive, pharmaceutical, or other verticals.
What You'll Do
- People Leadership: Manage, coach, mentor, and grow a team of 3 high-performing and high-potential Measurement Partners.
- Client Delivery & Insights: Own end-to-end strategy, delivery, and fulfillment for a small portfolio of key accounts (1-2 key accounts). Act as a strategic and operational escalation path for accounts in your direct reports’ portfolios.
- Strategy & Business Partnership: Work closely with sales leaders to define opportunities for proactive outreach and insights delivery to key customers.
Who You Are
- Storytelling is your super power. You are obsessed with turning data into insights and insights into stories that help your customers solve pain points and answer questions.
- You are obsessed with the media industry. You have a deep curiosity and passion for the media, entertainment, film, and TV industries. You have likely worked in entertainment roles in the past, working on marketing teams at TV networks, content or movie studios.
- You are growth-oriented and service-minded. You’ve demonstrated a clear growth path in your life and career. You get excited about the opportunity to support, help, and serve customers and you actively seek opportunities to help them solve their challenges.
Required Experience & Skills
- 5-8+ years of experience in consumer insights, audience insights, marketing analytics, or measurement science - preferably working in a major entertainment studio (e.g. Disney, Netflix, Hulu) supporting a marketing or content development team.
- Familiarity with TV and movie measurement solutions, including box office measurement, tune-in measurement, and audience and content measurement, research, and insights.
- Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools: SQL, Python, BigQuery
- Familiarity with and enthusiasm for building with AI: Claude and Google Suite.
Why Samba
- Work with the richest first-party TV dataset in the world.
- Lead a team that is genuinely shaping how entertainment brands make decisions..
- Partner with senior BD leaders and collaborate directly with some of the most sophisticated media and entertainment marketers in the world.
- Competitive compensation, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of progressive experience in a client-facing research role
- Exceptional ability to identify key trends and actionable insights
- Verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex concepts
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Business, Marketing, or related field
- Extensive knowledge of the Ad Tech industry and media buying/selling
What We Do
Television remains a vibrant cultural influence and an essential source of entertainment and information worldwide. Tremendous growth in content choices, and viewing platforms that allow us to watch anything, anytime, on any screen, has actually made it harder for viewers to discover and keep up with all the great programming available. It’s also more competitive for content providers to keep your attention, and for marketers to make strong, measurable connections with their target consumers. Technology that improves the viewing experience, enables content discovery, and addresses audience fragmentation across screens will strengthen television’s business model and relevance to consumers. Data is at the center of any solution to make TV better. Samba TV's technology is built into Smart TVs and easily maps to smart phones and tablets. By recognizing what's on screen, Samba TV learns what viewers like and using machine learning algorithms, enables discovery of shows and actors in a whole new way. Likewise, our data and measurement products are transforming the way stakeholders across the media landscape are thinking about their business. Given the dramatic growth in streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership, our data products solve real problems and create a meaningful competitive advantage for our clients.
