Senior Marketing Manager

Summary

Join Blend's U.S. Client Marketing team as a Senior Marketing Manager, responsible for strengthening client relationships and delivering marketing services to merchants, cobrand partners, and payment ecosystem stakeholders. This 8-month contract (with potential extension) is remote but requires US time zone flexibility. You will collaborate with internal and external teams to develop and implement B2C and B2B marketing programs, advise clients on payment marketing strategies, and act as a subject matter expert. The role demands strong leadership, project management, and communication skills, along with extensive experience in various marketing disciplines and the payments industry. Blend offers a competitive benefits package for full-time consultants.

Requirements

• 10-15 years of work experience in a marketing capacity
• Authority in multiple marketing disciplines, including brand, product, direct response, research, content, social, influencer, sponsorship, and events
• Deep payments knowledge and understanding of market dynamics in the areas of consumer/ small business; prepaid, debit, credit, and commercial payments
• Accomplished at building trusted relationships with cross-functional team members, key stakeholders, business leaders and clients
• Ability to structure, manage and coordinate complex projects across multiple internal/external stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence in a highly matrixed organization
• Organized, with a natural inclination for both strategic and tactical deliverables
• Aptitude to think creatively, identifying new and innovative ways of organizing resources and prioritizing work leading to tangible business results
• Ability to work with limited direction, usually within a complex and ambiguous environment to drive fact-based recommendations, solutions, and decisions
• Leadership experience working in agency and/or consulting roles involving the development and delivery of comprehensive, multi-channel marketing programs
• Strong executive presence; excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience engaging with Executive and C-level suite audiences

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Marketing Services Business Development, Marketing Services Delivery, and cross-functional business partners to develop and present marketing strategy recommendations designed to drive payments spend and card usage
• Lead cross-functional team of stakeholders with the responsibility to improve client experience and reduce Marketing Services’ costs to deliver
• Serve as a payment marketing subject matter expert/advisor/consultant on behalf of Clients (e.g., merchants, issuers, fintech, and processors)
• Identify and develop scalable marketing frameworks to improve speed to market, ensure work product is consistent, delivered efficiently, and executed flawlessly
• Provide marketing thought leadership and expert project management skills to develop and implement marketing programs on behalf of clients (e.g., research& insights, marketing strategy, campaign development, campaign delivery & optimization, and campaign measurement)
• Serve as Marketing Services Delivery escalation point of contact and own resolution of delivery issues for Clients/stakeholders
• Nurture, grow, and deepen client relationships; establish U.S. Client Marketing as the preferred marketing partner of choice among our clients

Benefits

• Health
• Vision
• Dental
• 401K plan
• Life Insurance
• Pretax Commuter Benefits
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K
• PTO
• Commuter benefits
• Spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability coverage
• EAPs