Director, Marketing Systems & Enablement

Franklin, TN (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the digital consumer experience across brand sites, CRM, and AI-enabled content at scale, turning first-party data into measurable marketing value.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Own experimentation, journey design, personalization, and conversion across owned digital properties.
  • CRM & Lifecycle: Lead email and social CRM, automated journeys, and the loop from recruited consumers to repeat purchasers.
  • AI & Content Operations: Standardize AI-assisted writing, editorial discipline, and prompt playbooks to power brief-to-publish workflows.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owns the digital experience that engages and drives mutual value for pet parents — including but not limited to brand sites, registration and retention flows, owned email programs, and content hubs
  • Accountable for the Digital Consumer Experience strategy and optimization function: experimentation, journey design, personalization, and conversion across owned digital properties
  • Accountable for the CRM and lifecycle marketing function as relevant for CPG: email and social CRM, and the automated journeys that convert recruited consumers into engaged ones and engaged consumers into repeat purchasers
  • Ensures CRM operates as the connective layer between recruitment, retail activation, and the broader integrated communications plan — turning first-party data into an asset that compounds business value over time
  • Accountable for the Search and GEO discipline: how brands surface in classical search and how they're represented in AI-generated answers across the emerging generative search ecosystem
  • Owns the function's approach to AI-assisted writing and content production at scale: editorial discipline, brand voice fidelity, prompt and playbook infrastructure, and the workflows that integrate AI writing into the brief-to-publish engine
  • Owns the incubation of new disciplines, practices, and capabilities Marketing needs next — including current bets like AEO/GEO and AI writing, and the future practices yet to emerge
  • Designs the operating model that allows new practices to be piloted with discipline: clear hypotheses, defined measurement, structured experimentation, and honest assessment of what's working
  • Graduates mature practices into operationalized homes elsewhere in the organization when they're ready, keeping the team focused on the next big thing
  • Owns the consolidation, prioritization, and articulation of marketing's business needs, use cases, and requirements; serves as the senior marketing voice that briefs the Digital and technology organizations on what the function actually needs to deliver against business objectives

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree required
  • 12+ years in marketing operations, marketing technology leadership, business operations, or a closely related discipline
  • CPG experience strongly preferred — multi-brand portfolio environments most relevant for the complexity and scale this role requires
  • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale platform decisions, integrations, and consolidations
  • Track record building enablement and capability programs that shifted how an organization works, not just trained people on tools
  • Experience designing cross-functional workflows, governance models, and operating standards
  • Comfort operating at the executive table across marketing, IT, finance, and procurement
  • Proven people leadership with a demonstrated commitment to developing talent and building team engagement
  • Experience managing senior stakeholders in matrixed environments

Benefits

  • Opportunity to bring your pet to work.
  • Commitment to create a safe, healthy, and sustainable world for our partners and the communities in which we operate.
  • Commitment to make A Better World For Pets™ a world where they’re healthy, happy and welcome.
  • Commitment to our consumers and focus on positively impacting the planet and the population.
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McLean, Virginia, US
64K employees (5,033 in marketing)
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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
805.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.3%
Direct
40.8%
Referral
8.8%
Social
5.1%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~61.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4,367 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
14.5 years
Median Tenure
5.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

Funding

Last Raise
Debt Financing, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2025
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