Marketing Technology and AI Lead

Grand Rapids, MI (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end transformation of marketing content production and promotional planning through new workflows and AI-enabled tools.

  • Own redesign of marketing workflows and implement repeatable automation across content and promotions.
  • Must-have: 5+ years in marketing operations with hands-on workflow design.
  • Standout: Cross-functional leadership across Marketing, IT, and Merchandising with measurable outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Redesign Marketing Workflows
  • Map current-state content production and promotional planning workflows end-to-end—briefing, concepting, asset creation, review, versioning, trafficking, and channel activation—to identify where friction, rework, and manual effort create the greatest drag.
  • Design future-state workflows that shift teams from one-off, manual execution to always-on, repeatable, automated pipelines.
  • Develop the operating model changes needed to support new workflows: updated roles, handoffs, standards, and accountability structures.
  • Build and maintain the workflow playbooks, process documentation, and adoption resources that enable teams to work the new way.
  • Define and Drive MarTech & AI Strategy
  • Develop a point of view on the martech and AI stack required to transform Marketing’s content production and promotional planning capabilities.
  • Evaluate tools and platforms against real workflow needs—not in the abstract—and make recommendations on selection , sequencing, and integration.
  • Stay current on the AI and martech landscape, including generative AI, creative automation, DAM and content management platforms, and promotional planning technology.
  • Lead the Marketing AI Task Force: set the agenda, drive cross-team alignment on priorities, and build a culture of curiosity and disciplined experimentation around AI adoption.
  • Spearhead Strategic Transformation Initiatives
  • Serve as the primary driver for high-priority transformation programs, including content production modernization (Content Engine) and promotional planning evolution—setting strategy, aligning stakeholders, and managing implementation.
  • Define initiative scope, success metrics, and roadmaps; track progress and adjust course as needed.
  • Lead cross-functional alignment across Marketing, Merchandising, Retail Media Networks, and Technology to ensure initiatives land with the right support and sequencing.
  • Bring a measurable mindset: target and track outcomes such as content throughput, turnaround time reduction, manual touchpoint elimination, and team capacity freed for higher-value work.
  • Partner with IT to Deliver Technical Solutions
  • Define business requirements and workflow context that IT and technical partners need to build, configure, or integrate martech solutions.
  • Serve as the Marketing voice in technical planning—ensuring solutions are designed around how creative and planning teams actually work , not just what is technically feasible .
  • Manage vendor relationships and platform onboarding (e.g., Adobe Firefly and other martech platforms), ensuring adoption and value realization.
  • Understand the downstream implications of workflow changes for media execution, personalization, and channel activation—and design with those handoffs in mind.
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Meijer

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It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going.Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Nearly thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world's first-ever supercenter, laying the groundwork for what we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. But we’re not stopping there. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service, once again reinventing the grocery shopping experience. While a lot has changed over the years, one thing remains the same: we are still family-owned. That sense of family is fundamental to everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years.So, if you share our pioneering spirit and take pride in helping others, we would love to connect with you. And together, we can bring more good to life and our community.

Founded in 1934
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
30K employees (1,534 in marketing)
49% recommend to a friend
56% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$457.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.4%
Direct
64.3%
Referral
3%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~29.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,125 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
8.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$27M
Last Raise
$7.8M
Series Unknown, 10 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2016
    Series Unknown • $7.8M
  • Sep 2015
    Series Unknown • $7.2M
  • Oct 2014
    Series Unknown • $12M

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