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Drew Stattine

Director, Data Science

Data Science Director and AI Leader. Proven expertise scaling data science operations from academic foundations to consumer-facing model deployments supporting billions of users. History of driving significant P&L impact, including managing initiatives that generated over $200M in incremental revenue across retail and tech sectors.

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Experience

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Nike

Dec 2020 — Apr 2024

Director, Marketing and Membership Science

  • Quantified communication perception across APAC and LATAM, providing visibility that enabled real-time strategy adjustments.
  • Spearheaded the South Korean expansion of Nike’s first-party digital products, including the brand's first-ever mobile marketing messaging launch.
  • Directed qualitative market research to provide actionable insights for senior marketing leadership.
  • Developed seasonal planning templates and data products to define KPIs and success benchmarks based on regional market strategies.
  • Integrated mobile messaging and behavioral data, identifying key drivers (keywords, visuals, products) for specific age, region, and gender segments.

Nike

Apr 2018 — Dec 2020

Director Direct Product Science

  • Scaled analytics across billions of visitors, quantifying infrastructure-level authentication while navigating complex, multi-cloud environments (AWS, Snowflake, Salesforce).
  • Sized digital roadmap opportunities by quantifying the business value of AI-based recommendation systems, resulting in reduced user friction and increased cross-category discovery.
  • Built a consumer engagement framework that empowered product teams to execute UX A/B tests with a 2-3x higher success rate than baseline peer groups.
  • Redefined user retention metrics, developing simplified, actionable frameworks to clearly communicate the impact of digital products to stakeholders.

REI

Nov 2016 — Apr 2018

Manager Customer & Marketing Analytics

  • Built a diminishing returns framework for incremental search and PLA spend, unlocking significant cost savings and strategically redeploying capital into higher-ROAS channels.
  • Pioneered an incrementality testing methodology for location-targeted marketing, accurately isolating the true Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) for Google Paid Search and Product Listing Ads (PLAs).
  • Directed agile analytics initiatives, aligning data science workflows directly with high-level enterprise marketing strategies and business goals.

Free People

Jun 2015 — Nov 2016

Marketing & Analytics Manager

  • Led global cross-functional analytics, scaling A/B testing across all owned digital experiences and supporting international brick-and-mortar retail rollouts through co-op marketing partnerships.
  • Architected advanced predictive models, integrating R natively in Netezza and leveraging H2O to forecast demand, automate behavioral email triggers, and partner on agent-based models measuring long-term marketing impact.
  • Pioneered computer vision initiatives, piloting a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to extract and quantify product imagery features that correlated with higher Product Detail Page (PDP) conversion rates.
  • Maximized incremental omnichannel demand across print, email, and digital channels by engineering a behavioral science-based targeting and customer scoring framework using R.
  • Directed seamless data infrastructure migrations, ensuring zero reporting downtime during a highly complex, concurrent digital product re-platform and CRM data warehouse migration.

Target

Dec 2014 — Apr 2015

Sr Business Partner BI&A

  • Established enterprise reporting standards, accelerating development cycles and ensuring strict continuity, consistency, and documentation across ongoing release cycles.
  • Modeled supply chain and operational impacts, forecasting the effects of distribution network changes on workforce capacity and secondary payroll expenses to guide strategic process rollouts.
  • Architected full-lifecycle reporting solutions to support major strategic corporate initiatives, including the launch of Target Express.

Target

Aug 2012 — Dec 2014

Data Management Analyst

  • Spearheaded the BI & Analytics community, driving the strategic evaluation, proof-of-concept (POC), and enterprise adoption of advanced data profiling applications like Arbutus.
  • Directed global data governance, developing testing protocols for offshore execution and establishing rigorous data validation and profiling standards using SAS, ACL, and Alteryx.
  • Engineered complex data pipelines, extracting and blending massive datasets across Teradata, Hadoop, SQL, and Oracle to enforce strict contract compliance and process auditing.

Target

Aug 2010 — Aug 2012

Business Intelligence Analyst

  • Directed data architecture upgrades across Essbase and SQL environments, leveraging MicroStrategy to blend complex, siloed datasets and scale enterprise data warehouse capabilities.
  • Delivered executive-level strategic intelligence, governing the accuracy of daily and weekly sales, cost, and inventory reporting for the Executive Committee, as well as tracking KPIs for the CityTarget launch.
  • Enabled omni-channel retail visibility, architecting the data foundation for real-time guest-facing inventory availability across mobile and web platforms.

University of Minnesota

Aug 2007 — Aug 2010

Information Technology Professional

  • Optimized infrastructure performance and scalability for enterprise applications (Adobe Connect), guaranteeing high-availability systems for organization-wide training and communications.
  • Directed enterprise-wide compliance initiatives, systematically aligning decentralized departments with rigorous institutional security policies and centralized IT support structures.

Skills matrix

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Strong
  • Talent Development
  • Large Language Models (LLM)
  • AI Personalization
  • Attribution Modelling
  • AWS
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Modeling
  • Databricks
  • Epistemology
  • Hiring
  • Team Leaderships
  • E-Commerce
  • Customer Engagement
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Business Requirements
  • Model Development
  • Data Strategies
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Performance Analysis
  • Project Management
  • Statistics
  • Strategic Planning
  • Web Analytics
Moderate
  • Competitive Landscape
  • CUDA
  • Digital Media Planning
  • Executive Storytelling
  • GenAI Agents
  • Graph Databases
  • Media Strategy
  • Presentations
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Social Media Strategy
  • Astrophotography
  • OpenClaw
Gaps

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