Principal Associate - Marketing & Brand Strategy (Account Management Team) Hybrid

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $138K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 days ago

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Job Summary

Owns end-to-end client relationships and multi-channel marketing programs, leading strategy, creative development, and cross-functional execution across campaigns and experiences.

  • Build and sustain client relationships to hit joint marketing objectives
  • Lead strategy, creative development, and omni-channel execution across the customer lifecycle
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure brand alignment and on-time delivery

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Builds and develops strong relationships with our external Clients focused on reaching our shared marketing objectives and goals.
  • Supports annual marketing strategy development planning including compiling previous results and insights, conducting consumer research, facilitating partner brainstorm discussions and creating final documentation.
  • Leads the creative strategy, development and execution for multiple omnichannel marketing initiatives, across the full customer lifecycle. Channels include print, digital, email and experiential marketing/events. Includes developing creative briefs based on project intent, providing feedback to agencies/creative teams throughout development, routing for feedback and ensuring all required updates are made.
  • Leverages customer insights, campaign performance results and client needs when developing marketing initiative recommendations impacting marketing plan and/or creative strategy.
  • Oversees project management of deliverables, including marketing plans, budget, timelines and results. Responsible for execution and activation of marketing campaigns. Identifies any potential issues and opportunities and appropriately escalates. Develops detailed documentation for team reference.
  • Supports leadership with product development efforts including ideation, research, concepting, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Takes a holistic and customer-centric view on end-to-end customer experience, including branding and usability.
  • Champions the brand, ensuring that all marketing aligns to respective brand personas, voice and style guides.
  • Collaborates with multiple cross-functional teams including creative agencies, analytics, research, operations, legal and Clients.
  • Note: This role will require 10-20% travel

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Military Experience
  • At least 5 years of marketing or project management experience
  • At least 2 years of multi-channel digital marketing experience
  • At least 3 years experience planning, executing and analyzing marketing programs
  • At least 3 years of experience managing creative processes, partnering with creative teams and developing creative optimization frameworks

Preferred

  • At least 2 years in the financial services industry.
  • At least 2 years in the retail industry

Benefits

  • Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
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At Capital One, we're making things better for our customers and associates through innovation and collaboration. We were founded on the belief that everyone deserves financial freedom—and are dedicated to a world where all have equal opportunity to prosper. Banking is in our DNA, but we are so much more than a bank. We always think about what’s next—and how we can bring our customers the tools needed to improve their financial lives. Your ideas, experiences and skills will help make banking better. You’ll be part of a supportive culture while earning amazing benefits. That’s life at Capital One. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. View our Social Media Community Guidelines https://www.capitalone.com/digital/social-media/

Founded in 1994
McLean, Va, US
62K employees (2,158 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
80% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
127.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$12.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16.9%
Direct
77.4%
Referral
3.7%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~81.6K

Marketing Team

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

Funding

Total Funding
$5.5B
Last Raise
$2.8B
Post IPO Debt, 6 months ago

Funding History

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

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