Freelance Data Strategist

Engagement Type: Fixed-Fee Freelance Contract

Project Fee: $5,206.00 CAD ($3,800.00 USD)

Estimated Hours/Effort: 53 hours 

Expected delivery timeline: December 2026 to February 2027, with a readout in early March. 

We are open to hire within Canada or the United States.

We’re looking for a freelance Data Strategist with deep creator and influencer marketing experience to help shape a new creator-matching product being built for our client. You’ll define how emerging talent across film, TV and digital is identified, tracked and prioritized for development and production teams. You’ll turn campaign strategy into clear, data-driven matching logic.

This is a strategic role, not a hands-on data engineering position. Your industry knowledge matters as much as your analytical skills.

What you’ll do 

• Define the data signals, sources and criteria how emerging talent across film, TV and digital is identified, tracked and prioritized for development and production teams. 
• Design the scoring and weighting method across audience fit, content fit and campaign goals 
• Produce a Talent Tracking Criteria deck (about 8–12 slides) covering talent types, signals and sources, and surfacing rules.  
• Turn entertainment campaign objectives into practical, testable matching logic 
• Work closely with the Solutions Engineer to make sure the approach can be built and scaled
• Provide recommendations and personalization algorithms.
• Ranking and retrieval systems.
• Reinforcement learning and contextual bandits.
• Machine learning model development and optimization.
• Algorithm evaluation and performance measurement.

What you bring 

• Deep experience in film and TV development sector, creator/influencer marketing, audience intelligence or social analytics 
• Strong grasp of creator metrics, such as audience demographics, engagement quality, brand affinity and authenticity signals 
• Experience building scoring models, segmentation or matching frameworks at a strategic level 
• Familiarity with the creator-data landscape, including social media platforms 
• Comfort working with engineers and turning strategy into clear requirements 
• Entertainment, media or fan-marketing experience 

BIMM is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and accessible. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all applicants for employment without discrimination. Please let us know if accommodation for the recruitment/interview process is required and we will work with you to make sure your needs are met.

AI In Recruitment 

While we are exploring ways to best utilize AI in our hiring processes, BIMM currently does not use AI-enabled tools in our hiring process. All candidates are screened by humans, and approved by humans.