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Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.
Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is recognised and rewarded. There are no limits to what you can achieve here, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign Best Place to Work for six consecutive years and one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. As well as this, we’re Campaign’s Independent Agency of the Year 2024 and Media Week’s Independent Agency of the Year 2025.
We are IPA Effectiveness accredited, an IPA People-First agency, and All In Champions, with industry-leading work recognised by double-gold at the 2024 IPA Effectiveness Awards for our work with Laithwaites and a 2025 Effie for our work with Alzheimer’s Society.
Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients including Hovis, IG, Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Ancestry, Laithwaites Wine, Save the Children, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.
Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including all the usual things you would expect, such as a competitive salary package, pension, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, weekly social events and big summer / end of year parties.
On top of that, we offer extra benefits, which make life at Medialab even more rewarding:
Time to Unwind – We offer generous holiday entitlement that increases with long service, plus Christmas closure and a birthday day off. Alongside this, we offer flexible benefits including a holiday buy scheme, flexi-hours, a work abroad scheme, cultural bank holiday swaps, and Friday Summer hours.
Health & Wellbeing – Private medical insurance, health cash plan, gym discounts, wellbeing apps Mental Health First Aiders and free professional counselling.
The Data Science Engineer is a pivotal technical role focused on supporting the development of specialised software and tools that enable our Marketing Effectiveness team to deliver data driven insights to our clients. Sitting at the intersection of Data Science and Engineering within the Apollo Innovation team, this role helps drive the transition from manual workflows to automated, production-ready systems.
Beyond the hands-on improvement and maintenance of our existing tools to guarantee operational stability, you will have the opportunity to contribute directly to our R&D. You will drive innovation by using your technical experience to develop in-house capabilities and solutions that directly enhance our Marketing Effectiveness proposition.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
Produce comprehensive technical documentation and advocates for the adoption and delivery of new tools and features to the team, ensuring all system architectures are transparent, maintainable, and clearly understood.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE TEAM
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