Assistant Director, Small Business Marketing Strategist

Hartford, CT (Hybrid)

$105K/yr – $157K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 12 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the development and execution of integrated marketing strategy and go-to-market plans, turning data and insights into actionable campaigns and cross‑functional alignment.

  • Lead audience, messaging, and channel strategies that tie to business priorities and product launches.
  • Partner with analytics and product teams to measure success and drive continuous improvement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop integrated marketing strategies that support business priorities, product launches, capability adoption, customer experience improvements, and growth initiatives.
  • Translate business objectives into actionable marketing plans, audience strategies, positioning, messaging, channel recommendations, launch plans, and success metrics.
  • Lead development of go-to-market strategies, including audience prioritization, value proposition development, and market activation planning.
  • Provide strategic recommendations that inform annual and quarterly planning activities.
  • Analyze customer, market, competitive, and performance data to identify actionable insights that inform marketing strategy.
  • Develop audience segmentation frameworks, customer journey recommendations, and persona-driven marketing approaches.
  • Partner with research and analytics teams to translate findings into business and marketing recommendations.
  • Develop value propositions, messaging frameworks, campaign concepts, and strategic narratives.
  • Create clear, actionable strategic briefs that align stakeholders and agency partners around strategic direction.
  • Ensure messaging is customer-centric, differentiated, insight-driven, and consistent across channels.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in marketing strategy, product marketing, communications strategy, consulting, market research, or related disciplines.
  • Demonstrated experience developing marketing strategies, go-to-market plans, positioning, and messaging for complex products, services, or business initiatives.
  • Strong experience translating customer insights, research, and data into actionable recommendations.
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority and move work forward in a matrixed environment.
  • Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, and executive-ready storytelling skills.
  • Experience within insurance, financial services, healthcare, technology, or another highly regulated industry.
  • Experience supporting product launches, adoption initiatives, customer experience programs, or change management efforts.
  • Experience defining KPIs and performance readouts that inform optimization decisions
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled marketing tools and emerging marketing technologies.
  • Experience working with agencies, creative partners, and research providers.
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