Forward Deployed Marketing Data Scientist at Hightouch, an agentic marketing platform. Role combines customer-facing diagnostics and deep analytical work tuning AI-driven marketing campaigns, analyzing incrementality, and explaining model behavior to non-technical stakeholders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Marketing Data Scientist 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.
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 why they are performing the way they are.
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 30% of your time will be customer-facing and 70% deep analytical and modeling work.
No two days are the same, but you can expect to:
We are looking for talented, intellectually curious, and motivated individuals who are interested in tackling the problems above. We focus on impact and potential for growth more than years of experience. The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $220,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy.
We have limited inbound applications to one application per candidate. You will be auto-rejected if you apply to multiple roles. Please only apply to the position you are most qualified for.
Our interview process evaluates the most important dimensions of the role: analytical depth, customer communication, first-principles problem solving, and alignment with Hightouch’s values.
Intro Call [15–30m]
Introductory call with either a member of our recruiting team or the hiring manager to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit.
Take Home Data Analysis Exercise + Review Session [45m]
You’ll complete a short take-home assignment focused on exploratory data analysis of an example dataset. In the live review, you’ll walk through your approach, explain your reasoning, and present your findings as if you were guiding a customer through your analysis. We’re looking for clarity of communication, rigor of thinking, and the ability to turn data into actionable insights.
Experiment Design & Analysis Session [90m]
A hands-on session where we collaboratively design and evaluate an experiment end-to-end. This includes:
Hiring Manager Interview [30m]
Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles.
E-Verify Statement
Hightouch participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only — we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.
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