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Director, Analytics

Golin Ketchum

Chicago, IL · HybridFull-time$82–125K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$82–125K/yr
Location
Chicago, ILHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Golin Ketchum seeks a Director, Analytics to lead analytics work and serve as a client-facing insights expert. The role oversees projects spanning social listening, paid social reporting, earned media analysis, and integrated campaign measurement, while identifying business development opportunities and managing the financial implications of analytics work. The director also contributes to project execution and leads and mentors junior analysts.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Data AnalysisActionable InsightsQualitative ResearchSurvey ResearchSecondary Data AnalysisStatistical AnalysisHypothesis DevelopmentExperimental DesignCommunicationTime ManagementMultitaskingLearning New ToolsTeam LeadershipMentoring

Qualifications

8+ Years ExperienceAgency Experience

Full job description

Hybrid

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Full time

R13352

Agency:

Golin Ketchum

Job Function:

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction:

Data Science and Analytics

Job Description:

Director, Analytics

Golin Ketchum is looking for a Director, Analytics to join our team!

Golin Ketchum is the most awarded public relations agency of the decade. We create change that matters for our clients and our people. The kind of change that earns attention and shapes culture to build business.

Formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic PR agencies, Golin Ketchum combines fearless creative and strategic excellence, fueled by Omnicom’s industry-leading data and AI solutions, to uncover powerful insights and execute work that builds and protects the world’s greatest companies.

With specialized expertise across consumer and brands, corporate affairs, healthcare, technology, and food, agriculture and nutrition, we deliver integrated, high-impact communications services at scale.

At Golin Ketchum, culture matters. We are fiercely ambitious yet fundamentally kind and collaborate obsessively with the best clients in the world.

Want to create change that matters with us? Here are the details:

What You’ll Do:

  • Be a change-agent within our agency, asking tough questions of client teams and pushing them to innovate and think differently

  • Oversee a variety of different types of projects including social listening, paid social reporting, earned media analysis, integrated campaign measurement and more

  • Act as the face of insights and analytics at Golin to key stakeholders on the client side, portraying an air of professionalism and charisma that captivates clients and positions Golin as knowledgeable experts in the space

  • Identify and initiate organic business development efforts and be able to identify incremental opportunities.

  • Understand and manage agency financials and implications of analytics work to the broader business

  • Be willing to jump in and get into the weeds of project execution when needed

What You Have:

  • 8+ years of experience in digital analytics, market research or related field; agency experience preferred

  • Hands-on experience analyzing large sets of data and turning it into actionable insights

  • Comfort interpreting a variety of different data sources from qualitative research to primary survey data to secondary data sources and creating one cohesive story

  • Exceptional communications skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts simply and effectively to audiences with limited knowledge of research or analytics

  • Advanced analytical skills with proven understanding of statistical techniques: hypothesis development, designing tests/experiments, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations

  • Time management skills and the ability to juggle multiple deliverables and timelines at once

  • Ability to quickly learn new tools and databases

  • Experience leading and mentoring a team of junior analysts

Golin Ketchum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Golin Ketchum recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

82k-125k

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At Omnicom Group, careers are designed for growth. We’ve purposefully crafted a transformative talent experience built with accountability in action — focused on community, impact, and opportunity.

Ketchum is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, alienage, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other protected class under federal, state or local laws.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,295 open Data Analytics jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$82–125K/yr
  • Illinois median$120–183K/yr77 salary ranges
  • US median$119–195K/yr1,614 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $104K, is 34% below the Illinois median midpoint ($157K) — in the lowest quarter of Data Analytics salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 87 open Data Analytics jobs in Illinois and 2,295 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Data Analytics postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,769 postings).
Education
1,129 of the 2,295 open Data Analytics jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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