Senior Director, Marketing Operations

Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Lead the design and execution of an enterprise marketing operating model, ensuring alignment across planning, governance, and performance, while owning resource management, AI-enabled workflow optimization, and continuous improvement across cross-functional teams.

  • Own and optimize the end-to-end operating model and cross-team orchestration
  • Drive Marketing Resource Management, AI-enabled automation, and performance governance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Enterprise Marketing Operations Leadership
  • - Lead and optimize the end-to-end enterprise marketing operating model, ensuring alignment across planning, prioritization, execution, governance, and performance management.
  • - Establish clear processes, decision rights, and accountability structures across marketing and key partner functions.
  • - Serve as the central orchestrator across teams, channels, platforms, and stakeholders to ensure coordinated, efficient execution.
  • - Translate strategic priorities into scalable operational plans that enable business growth and marketing effectiveness.
  • Marketing Resource & Business Management
  • - Implement and manage Marketing Resource Management (MRM) capabilities, including budget planning, forecasting, resource allocation, capacity management, and vendor governance.
  • - Drive operational transparency and financial discipline across marketing investments, resources, and priorities.
  • - Ensure clear linkage between marketing investments, execution activities, performance outcomes, and business objectives.
  • - Develop frameworks that optimize resource utilization, improve productivity, and enhance return on marketing spend.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience in Contact Center and or Operational experience OR High School Diploma or GED and 16 years of experience in Contact Center and or Operational experience
  • 12+ years of experience in Marketing Operations
  • Risk Identification
  • Risk Mitigation

Preferred

  • - 12+ years of progressive experience in marketing operations, marketing management, or go-to-market (GTM) operations within the financial services industry.
  • - Proven track record designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise marketing operating models that drive efficiency, accountability, and measurable business outcomes.
  • - Experience implementing and governing enterprise workflow, work management, and collaboration platforms (e.g., Jira, Adobe Workfront, Optimizely, or similar solutions).
  • - Experience implementing and optimizing Marketing Resource Management (MRM) capabilities, including budget management, resource planning, capacity management, and operational governance.
  • - Demonstrated success deploying AI-enabled marketing workflows, automation solutions, and process transformation initiatives that improve scalability and productivity.
  • - Experience leading within complex, matrixed organizations and influencing outcomes across multiple stakeholders, functions, and business units.
  • - Expert knowledge of marketing operations, marketing technology, analytics, performance measurement, and organizational effectiveness.
  • - Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Operations, or a related field.
  • - Advanced degree preferred.

Benefits

  • Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.
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First Citizens Bank

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First Citizens Bank helps personal, business, commercial and wealth clients build financial strength that lasts. Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., First Citizens has built a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations. First Citizens offers an array of general banking services including a network of more than 500 branches and offices in 30 states; commercial banking expertise delivering best-in-class lending, leasing and other financial services coast to coast; innovation banking serving businesses at every stage; and a nationwide direct bank. Parent company First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets.Visit firstcitizens.com or call toll-free 1.888.FC DIRECT (1.888.323.4732). First Citizens Bank. Forever First®. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.Social Media Terms of Use: https://www.firstcitizens.com/socialterms

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
18K employees (160 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
87% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$229.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
17.7%
Direct
75.2%
Referral
6.2%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
133 (1% of company)
Median Career Experience
26 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$33M
Last Raise
$10M
Post IPO Debt, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2021
    Post IPO Debt • $10M
  • Aug 2018
    Post IPO Debt • $23M

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