Group Director, MarTech

New York, USA (Remote)

$176K/yr – $250K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive DEPT’s MarTech architecture and leadership across client engagements, delivering AI-enabled, integrated marketing tech.

  • Lead MarTech strategy, platform setup, optimization, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Must-have: 10+ years building and managing marketing technology platforms.
  • Standout: Hands-on leadership with pre-sales, cross-practice influence, and mentorship across architects and analysts.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic leadership of MarTech-powered, connected experiences for our clients.
  • Showcase DEPT’s expertise and leadership by representing our technical capabilities to clients and key stakeholders; develop and maintain senior and executive leadership relationships.
  • Lead cross-practice and cross-craft technical initiatives that drive strategic innovation and collaboration across the agency to ensure we are delivering high-capable and efficient solutions.
  • Partner with peers in the Data & Analytics team and Platforms team to draft and deliver comprehensive MarTech architectures for clients.
  • Evolve our MarTech Audit and reference architecture using our proprietary tools and AI to accelerate time to market.
  • Leverage your hands-on experience to lead teams in the execution of MarTech initiatives in collaboration with cross-craft peers.
  • Provide mentorship for your team of Architects, Principles, and Analysts; use your MarTech expertise to distill organizational goals for alignment with individuals’ growth goals.
  • Support strategic resource planning for your team, working with our resource management team to cast talent to opportunities and grow the team.
  • Support the pitch process for qualified MarTech opportunities by building proposals and scopes, leading pre-sales activities, and being the face of DEPT’s MarTech expertise in the Americas.
  • Oversee a team that does the following: Setup, configuration, and optimization of diverse martech platforms; Build and manage customer journey automations, trigger-based campaigns, and advanced segmentation across platforms; Design and implement data flows between CDPs and activation platforms, including identity resolution and real-time synchronization; Execute technical implementations including API integrations, custom templates, tracking frameworks, and platform migrations; Troubleshoot complex technical issues across the martech stack and maintain integration documentation; Build attribution models, A/B testing frameworks, and automated reporting dashboards; Conduct technical audits and health checks of existing martech implementations

Requirements

  • A decade or more of hands-on experience implementing and managing marketing technology platforms.
  • Demonstrated success in pre-sales, account expansion, and building complex technical proposals.
  • Excellent communication skills, effectively balancing high-level strategy with the necessary technical detail.
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Hands-on proficiency across diverse MarTech platforms such as: Email/messaging platforms (Iterable, Braze, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Adobe Campaign); Customer Data Platforms (Segment, Hightouch, mParticle, Tealium, AEP); Analytics platforms (Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel); Marketing automation (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Marketo); Integrations with Content and Commerce systems; Additional martech tools relevant to client needs

    Benefits

    • Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
    • 401k plan, plus matching
    • PTO
    • Paid Company Holidays
    • Parental Leave
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