Senior Manager - Data Science

This role operates at the intersection of marketing science, causal inference, and scalable analytics infrastructure. You will shape how the team approaches marketing effectiveness measurement while building the processes, culture, and capabilities needed to make the India team a foundational part of Zillow's global marketing data science organization.

This is an opportunity to build and lead a world-class data science team in India while working on analytically challenging, globally significant marketing science problems. You'll partner across geographies, influence how Zillow invests its marketing dollars, and develop data scientists who go on to have meaningful careers at a globally recognized technology company.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in data science, marketing analytics, or applied measurement, with 4+ years directly managing and developing data scientists.
• Deep expertise in Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM): methodology, tooling, business integration, and stakeholder communication.
• Strong working knowledge of marketing attribution, incrementality testing, and causal inference methods (geo-testing, diff-in-diff, synthetic controls, uplift modeling).
• Experience with performance forecasting and budget optimization in a marketing context.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of data scientists, setting direction, developing careers, and maintaining a high bar for quality and impact.
• Proven ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Strong executive communication skills: comfortable presenting complex methodology and business implications to senior marketing and business leaders.
• Deep proficiency in SQL and Python or R; experience operating in production analytics environments.
• Comfort operating in a globally distributed team environment with US-based counterparts.

Nice to Have:

• Experience at a high-growth Indian consumer tech company.
• Exposure to offline marketing analytics, brand measurement, or upper-funnel attribution.
• Experience scaling and modernizing legacy marketing measurement infrastructure.
• Familiarity with dbt, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow, or comparable data infrastructure.
• Experience building or managing analytics teams across multiple geographies.

What Sets You Apart:

• You build measurement frameworks that marketing leaders actually use to make decisions, not just deliver reports.
• You develop high-performing teams, not just high-performing models.
• You communicate across the spectrum, from walking an analyst through a causal design to presenting budget implications to a CMO.
• You hold a high bar for analytical credibility while being pragmatic about delivery timelines.
• You build strong cross-geography partnerships and make distributed teams work effectively.
• You stay technically grounded even as your scope grows; you know when to go hands-on and when to step back.