Director, Data Science, Digital & Insights, Strategic Communications

Overview

In this Director role, you lead data and analytics initiatives within FTI’s Digital & Insights practice in London, shaping AI-enabled advisory for corporate communications. You’ll blend advanced data science with strategy to deliver insights across media, audiences and influencers for top brands. You’ll oversee complex programmes, drive innovative data products, and translate technical findings into client-ready storytelling. This is a chance to influence how data drives communications strategy at scale in a fast-growing, collaborative environment.

Pay / Benefits

• excellent training and career development opportunities
• dedicated coach for mentoring
• supportive and friendly environment
• opportunity to work with leading FTSE 100 and corporate brands

Responsibilities

• Lead and design data-driven projects and pipelines using AI advances
• Apply qualitative, statistical and ML methods to interpret data for insights
• Mentor and lead other data scientists to build custom solutions
• Drive audience & influencer insights, media analysis, and campaign evaluation work
• Integrate multiple data sources to extract actionable insights
• Visualise results and create compelling client-ready reports
• Advocate analytics within the firm and promote data-driven practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional experts on data-driven proposals and solutions
• Support business development by delivering data insights for client pitches
• Develop and iterate on new analytics products and tools

Key requirements

• Proven competency with AI platforms and open-source tools (LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, Claude Code)
• Ability to translate complex data into clear visual insights
• Strong Python, SQL and Excel skills; production-level coding and testing
• Experience with GitHub collaboration and cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent)
• Expertise in data visualization tools (Graphext, Tableau, Power BI) and digital listening tools (Brandwatch/Talkwalker/Meltwater)
• Background in journalism, media, communications or marketing; SEO and GEO/AIO knowledge
• Graph data science / network analytics familiarity; Selenium basics; Terraform and DevOps awareness
• Ability to work with a geographically dispersed team and senior stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English
• Leadership experience managing complex programmes in data/communications

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset and problem-solving
• Collaborative and cross-functional leadership
• Python
• SQL
• Excel

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