Multi-Channel Marketing Director

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$97K/yr – $189K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize CNA's external communications program across email, social, and campaigns, leading email strategy, social media, testing cadence, and partner management to drive engagement and measurable impact.

  • Define KPIs and reporting for external channels
  • Manage agency partners and tools administration

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the development and optimization of external communications across email, social media, paid/earned channels, and external campaigns, ensuring a consistent brand voice across all touchpoints.
  • Manages CNA’s end-to-end email marketing strategy, including audience segmentation, campaign design, content development, and performance optimization to increase engagement and conversion.
  • Advances CNA’s social media strategy across paid, organic, and employee advocacy programs, driving increased visibility, engagement, and brand advocacy while enabling targeted business unit activation.
  • Champion a culture of testing and iteration, building a structured A/B and multivariate testing cadence and striving to grow and continuously improve our channel strategy
  • Manages agency partners and vendor relationships to ensure scalable, high-quality, and cost-effective execution across external communications initiatives.
  • Owns the toolset for email and social channels, serving as the internal subject matter expert and primary admin for Adobe Marketo Engage (Marketo), Litmus, Zerobounce, Hootsuite, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager.
  • Define KPIs and reporting frameworks for external communications, leveraging data and insights to continuously optimize performance and demonstrate impact across channels.
  • Partner with Marketing Operations and Technology to maintain clean data flows between Marketo and the CRM (Salesforce preferred), ensuring contact record integrity and compliant data use.
  • Leverage web analytics tools to track campaign attribution, landing page conversion, and multichannel touchpoint data.
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies that improve workflow efficiency, personalization capabilities, or measurement maturity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Journalism, Digital Marketing or related field/discipline or equivalent experience.
  • 7–10 years of progressive B2B marketing experience, with at least 4 years owning email and/or social media strategy at a program or channel level.
  • Property & Casualty insurance industry preferred but not required
  • Certifications/ credentials (one or more preferred but not required): Marketing Automation Certification (e.g. Marketo Certified Associate/Expert). Hands-on experience with a CRM platform, Salesforce preferred and a clear understanding of the Marketo-CRM data relationship. Demonstrated experience with Litmus or equivalent email testing/deliverability tools. Experience with Google Tag Manager for marketing tracking and attribution.
  • - Deep understanding of email marketing regulatory landscape.
  • - Extensive hands-on experience with marketing automation platforms (e.g., Marketo), including segmentation, campaign management, and performance tracking.
  • - Deep expertise across paid, owned, and earned media, including social, email and digital channels within a B2B environment.
  • - Collaborate closely with business-facing marketers, creative leadership, and the external agency to integrate multichannel programs into broader campaign plans.
  • - Present channel strategy, performance results, and investment recommendations to senior marketing leaders and internal stakeholders.
  • - Experience establishing KPIs, analyzing performance metrics, and using insights to refine strategies and improve outcomes.

Preferred

  • Property & Casualty insurance industry preferred but not required
  • Certifications/ credentials (one or more preferred but not required): Marketing Automation Certification (e.g. Marketo Certified Associate/Expert). Hands-on experience with a CRM platform, Salesforce preferred and a clear understanding of the Marketo-CRM data relationship. Demonstrated experience with Litmus or equivalent email testing/deliverability tools. Experience with Google Tag Manager for marketing tracking and attribution.
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CNA Insurance

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CNA is one of the largest U.S. commercial property and casualty insurance companies. Backed by more than 125 years of experience, CNA provides a broad range of standard and specialized insurance products and services for businesses and professionals in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Chicago, Illinois, USA
7.3K employees
71% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
102.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$127.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.6%
Direct
58.9%
Referral
5.3%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.3K

Marketing Team

Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$883K
Last Raise
$883K
Post IPO Equity, 10 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2016
    Post IPO Equity • $883K

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