Principal Associate, Mainstreet Secured Card Marketing (Hybrid)

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$121K/yr – $151K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the Secured Card product marketing strategy across the customer lifecycle, coordinating insights, cross‑functional collaboration, and optimization initiatives.

  • Synthesize research and market trends to identify strategic recommendations
  • Partner with creative, analytics, and product teams to scale marketing tactics and improve KPIs
  • Translate business intent into actionable briefs and campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Craft marketing strategy for the Secured Card customer lifecycle, from initial shopping through graduation to unsecured products
  • Synthesize consumer research insights, marketing trends, competitive landscape, and macro external factors to identify new strategic recommendations to improve marketing, business results and brand impact
  • Collaborate with business analyst teams to understand total business performance and build on analysis to identify new opportunities and adjust marketing/testing strategies
  • Serve as key liaison for and collaborate with cross-functional teams including business, channel/performance marketing, product marketing, creative, legal, operations and corporate communications partners
  • Translate and communicate business intent in a directive manner that partner teams can act on
  • Partner with internal and external creative and marketing technology teams to build and scale Secured Card marketing tactics and optimization to drive lifts in KPIs, particularly conversion metrics including application and funding rates
  • Champion the brand, ensuring that the strategies and messaging for each of our Secured Card products are in line with their respective audience’s needs
  • Write clear and concise creative briefs, test documents, test plans and strategies, driving continued performance and optimization against KPIs across channels

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Military Experience
  • At least 4 years of experience in product marketing or multi-channel digital marketing
  • At least 4 years of experience developing marketing test frameworks, driving optimization plans and strategy
  • At least 4 years of experience managing marketing intent, partnering with creative and channel teams, and developing strategies and briefs

Preferred

  • Masters degree in Marketing, Business or Communications
  • At least 2 years of experience in marketing for financial services or another highly regulated industry
  • At least 2 years of experience working with cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment with a track record of effectively working autonomously and navigating ambiguity
  • At least 1 year of experience working with marketing tech platforms, including data management platforms and/or customer relationship management systems

Benefits

  • Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
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Founded in 1994
McLean, Va, US
62K employees (2,158 in marketing)
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Traffic Source Mix
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16.9%
Direct
77.4%
Referral
3.7%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~81.6K

Marketing Team

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1,388 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
17.5 years
Median Tenure
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Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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Funding

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    Post IPO Debt • $2.8B
  • Jan 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.8B
  • May 2023
    Post IPO Equity • $954M

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