Director, Marketing Analytics & AI Transformation

Newport Beach, CA (On-site)

$185K/yr – $226K/yrDirector/Executive6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and drive end-to-end marketing analytics and AI transformation initiatives, from discovery of automatable workflows to governance and cross-functional leadership, translating data insights into actionable recommendations for marketing leadership while guiding adoption and change management.

  • Lead discovery of repeatable analytic and AI workflows
  • Translate insights into actionable marketing recommendations
  • Drive adoption, governance, and cross-functional influence

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Marketing Use-Case & Analytics Discovery : Lead discovery efforts with marketing leaders and key partners to identify repeatable analytic and AI workflows that can be partially or fully automated (e.g., audience-building, campaign QA, creative testing, budget adjustments, insights synthesis), including identify analytical questions and decision points within these workflows. Translate high-level marketing goals into agent tasks, analytical requirements, tools, and guardrails, and co-define success metrics (e.g., time saved, performance uplift, error reduction, user satisfaction) to ensure they are analytically sound, consistently measured, and aligned with enterprise scorecards.
  • Analytics & Agent Experimentation : Translate analytical findings and agent-generated insights into clear, actionable recommendations for marketers and senior leadership, including narratives tailored to non-technical audiences by designing analytic and agent frameworks that analyze campaign performance, identify anomalies, and recommend tests. Suggest audience segments, messaging variants, or channel mix changes. Summarize drivers of performance using intermediate-to-advanced analytic techniques (e.g., cohort analysis, funnels, contribution analysis, basic modeling, etc.).
  • Adoption, Enablement & Change Management : Drive organizational change and adoption of AI- and analytics-powered marketing. Lead pilots, gather structured feedback, and rapidly iterate agents and analytics solutions. Help marketers understand when to trust agents vs. when to override. How to provide effective feedback to improve agent and model performance. How to interpret analytics, scorecards, and KPIs produced by or impacted by agents. Act as an analytics and AI thought partner to marketing leaders, helping them frame business questions, interpret results, and make data-driven decisions enabled by AI and analytics.
  • Leadership, Governance & Cross-Functional Influence : Lead and influence cross-functional working groups spanning various marketing functions and capabilities. Set priorities for multiple functional teams and be accountable for allocation of underlying resources. Establish governance, standards, and best practices for marketing AI agents, experimentation, and analytics usage. Address unique and complex business problems that have broad impact on business outcomes beyond the CMD marketing organization, including CMD’s distribution and operational environment.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of specialized experience in marketing analytics, marketing technology, AI/ML, or related disciplines, including significant business knowledge within financial services.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated understanding of enterprise marketing workflows and metrics (CRM/lifecycle, paid media, funnels, attribution, attrition, LTV, ROAS, retention, etc.), and the ability to decompose them into automatable agent tasks and analytics problems.
  • Strong stakeholder communication and a product mindset, with high comfort operating in ambiguity. Ability to explain what agents and analytics can and cannot do, design human-in-the-loop workflows and guardrails, and clearly articulate analytical assumptions, limitations, and implications.
  • Proven ability to quantify impact (e.g., time saved, uplift, incremental revenue) and link analytic outcomes and AI interventions to business value.

Preferred

  • It is essential that the successful candidate demonstrate experience and proficiency in articulating business outcomes and benefits with senior leadership across a wide variety of technical domains (i.e., agent delivery, intermediate-to-advanced analytic frameworks, KPIs, scorecard development, etc.).

Benefits

  • Your Benefits Start Day 1
  • - Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
  • - Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
  • - Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
  • - Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation
  • You Can Be Who You Are
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Pacific Life provides a variety of products and services designed to help individuals and businesses in the retail, institutional, workforce benefits, and reinsurance markets achieve financial security. Whether your goal is to protect loved ones or grow your assets for retirement, Pacific Life offers innovative life insurance and annuity solutions, as well as mutual funds, that provide value and financial security for current and future generations. Supporting our policyholders for nearly 160 years, Pacific Life is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Newport Beach, California. For additional company information, including current financial strength ratings, visit www.PacificLife.com. Please review our social media guidelines: paclife.co/social

Newport Beach, California, USA
4.6K employees (208 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
87% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$185K/yr – $226K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
138 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
7.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Last Raise
$750M
Debt Financing, 6 months ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2025
    Debt Financing • $750M
  • Jun 2025
    Debt Financing • $688.6M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
348.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$815
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.9%
Direct
70.6%
Referral
3.7%
Social
0.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.6K

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