Senior Marketing Manager

Summary

Join Blend, a leading AI services provider, as a Senior Marketing Manager and play a key role in strengthening client relationships within the U.S. Client Marketing team. This 6-month consulting role (with potential extension) is remote but requires working across multiple US time zones. You will lead marketing services for a financial services client, driving key initiatives for business growth. Responsibilities include strategic planning, execution, project management, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate possesses extensive marketing experience in financial services or payments, along with strong leadership and communication skills. Blend offers a competitive benefits package to full-time consultants.

Requirements

• 10-15 years of work experience in a marketing capacity within the financial services or payments industry
• 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

• Lead all marketing services for one of the organization’s financial services clients
• Drive the strategy and execution of key marketing initiatives to drive client business growth, such as lifecycle marketing engagements, best practices, go-to-market recommendations, sponsorship marketing, events, advisory services, social/digital marketing, etc
• Lead marketing-related project scoping and requirements while aligning with sales and the client
• Apply data-driven approach to marketing recommendations leveraging company data and industry research tools to capture/communicate marketing best practices and customer insights and present to clients
• Work cross-functionally to develop and implement marketing projects that leverage the best of company resources and expertise (e.g., with Sales, Consulting & Analytics, Product, Marketing, Legal, Internal Creative Teams, etc.)
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of marketing projects including escalating any deliverables, updating timelines, and communicating changes to stakeholders with limited supervisory oversight
• Manage ad hoc requests from key stakeholders, e.g., clients, senior leadership, etc
• Manage project timelines and budget
• Track and manage program results

Benefits

Health, Vision, Dental, 401K plan, Life Insurance, Pretax Commuter Benefits