Marketing Scientist

Swift is seeking a Marketing (Behavioral) Scientist to join our growing team in Portland, Oregon. Here you will find a dynamic environment working with opportunities to influence the evolution of digital and social marketing strategies for some of the worlds most beloved brands. Our Marketing and Data Science teams work closely with our Strategic Planning, Creative, and Account Management teams to deliver exceptional, results-driven work.

Who you are:
You are intellectually curious and always up for a good challenge. You get a rush from solving problems and working with numbers and ideas comes easily to you. Always keenly observant and can’t help by try to understand what makes the world click, you are hacker and maker, driven to create. You are someone who challenges what’s possible.

What you’ll do:
Marketing and Behavioral Scientists conduct empirical research to understand consumer attitudes and behaviors, uncover hidden consumer needs, identify emerging trends, and surface meaningful insights for our clients. You’ll investigate the decisions people make in social environments and use these insights to inform advertising and communication strategies.

As a Marketing (Behavioral) Scientist, you will be a driving force in the blending of art and science to bring insights to life through storytelling. Your audience includes internal creative and planning teams, as well as our clients.

• Be a core member of our Marketing Science team, working with Creative and Strategic Planning to turn deep consumer insights into amazing consumer experiences
• Apply the latest advertising research and decision theory to solve real-world problems
• Work with the leadership of our planning and creative teams to identify critical moments within the consumer journey where we can improve the relationship between the brand and the consumer
• Lead understanding of consumer and marketplace behaviors, particularly those that most impact business and marketing goals
• Leverage industry leading platforms to develop and field surveys (Qualtrics), understand consumer conversations (Crimson Hexagon), evaluate content (Quid), connect consumer behavior to consumer attitudes and beliefs (ResearchNow, Kantar, MRI)
• You will also work hand in hand with a team of crazy smart data scientists to help you grow and extend your own research abilities using open data (Python, R)

What you’ll need:

• 1-2 years of relevant experience
• An obsession for solving problems with data.
• Strong analytic and critical thinking skills, with an eye for detail and excellent follow-through skills
• Experience in more than one of the following:
• Advertising or marketing theory
• Quantitative research and survey design
• Statistics and experimental design
• Data analysis and storytelling
• Social listening (Crimson Hexagon or similar experience highly preferred)
• Able to run a project from start to finish while targeting aggressive timelines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to be flexible and thrive in a rapidly-evolving environment
• A Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, or Statistics emphasis or commensurate work experience is highly preferred

Who we are:
Swift is a strategic creative agency that lives and breathes digital, leading brands forward with a groundbreaking combination of insights and ideas. We are hyper-focused on delivering campaigns that get results. Our client roster includes Starbucks, Google, Paypal, Carters, Umpqua, Nestlé, adidas, and YouTube.

What We Offer:
Swift offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, including no-cost medical insurance for employees, generous paid parental leave, and 401(k) with immediate matching and vesting. We put family first and ease the transition back to work for primary caregivers with a 32-hour work week at full pay for 12 weeks (and two comfy nursing rooms). Located in NW Portland near a Portland Streetcar stop, our airy, light-filled office inhabits a repurposed industrial building and has a variety of workspaces for collaborating and working independently. We encourage all employees to shape culture with their own ideas and provide professional development and management training. Employees receive paid holidays, volunteer time, vacation and wellness leave. We welcome dogs and emphasize community. You can find us every Friday, coming together for lunch and inspiration.

We aim to build an inclusive culture where differences are used to inform better creative, strategic and business decisions. We actively seek diversity of beliefs, backgrounds, education and ways of thinking. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.