Forward Deployed Marketing Data Scientist

<div class="content-intro"><h2>About Hightouch</h2> <p>Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.</p> <p>Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible.</p> <p>Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart.</p> <p>At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient — and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We’re looking for a <strong>Forward Deployed Marketing Data Scientist</strong> to partner closely with our AI Decisioning customers and internal engineering teams to ensure that AI-driven marketing campaigns deliver measurable, compounding impact. This role is uniquely cross-functional: you’ll spend time diagnosing model behavior, tuning ML levers, analyzing incrementality, exploring customer data, and explaining insights to marketers and executives.</p> <p>Marketing teams come to Hightouch to transform how they operate. Instead of planning campaigns weeks ahead on a calendar, AI Decisioning continuously learns customer preferences and executes 1:1 messaging that adapts in real time. Your mission is to make sure that these AI agents perform at their best—and to help customers understand <em>why</em> they are performing the way they are.</p> <p>You’ll work alongside ML engineers, product managers, Solutions Consultants, and some of the world’s most recognizable brands to improve campaign performance, debug experiments, and identify opportunities for additional lift. Roughly <strong>30%</strong> of your time will be customer-facing and <strong>70%</strong> deep analytical and modeling work.</p> <p>No two days are the same, but you can expect to:</p> <h3><strong>Own diagnostics, insights, and tuning for AI Decisioning campaigns</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Explain <em>why</em> AI Decisioning is driving lift using counterfactuals, incrementality breakdowns,