Senior Principal, Marketing Strategic Finance & Analytics

USA (Remote)

$204K/yr – $245K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-functional finance and analytics for marketing investments, turning data into disciplined spend decisions and performance insights across channels.

  • Investment & Budget Oversight: partner on spend pacing and budget tracking across marketing and production to inform allocations.
  • Analytics & ROI: develop ROI methodologies and lead holistic campaign reviews with data science and research inputs.
  • Strategy & Communication: collaborate with Marketing, Product Marketing, and Hosting leadership to shape strategy and performance storytelling.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Investment Approach: Support strategy discussions on spend allocation & pacing between Finance and Marketing leadership
  • Budget Tracking: Partner with Financial Operations to track Marketing media and production budgets in order to inform strategic allocations
  • Target Setting: Establish KPI framework for marketing channels and campaigns. Set and monitor KPI targets, OKRs, and efficiency goals
  • ROI Evaluation: Develop ROI calculation methodologies with DS and Research, and lead holistic campaign reviews - accounting for qualitative and quantitative impacts
  • Reporting: Support weekly reporting needs from Marketing and Hosting orgs as well as quarterly campaign performance reviews
  • Analytical Deep Dives: Conduct deep dives into business trends and drivers of variance. Independently lead data extraction, analysis, visualization, and presentation.
  • Strategic Support: Partner with Marketing, Product Marketing and Hosting leadership to develop strategy and support business performance

Requirements

  • 15+ years of relevant business and analytics experience . Ideally you have a mix of financial planning, management consulting, and/or analytics experience
  • Technical experience . financial analysis and modeling skills, SQL experience preferred
  • Ability to work and influence cross-functionally . You will need to partner across internal (marketing, data science, finance) and external partners - proactively facilitating connections between teams
  • Strong communication skills with audiences at various analytical levels . You enjoy working with large data sets and synthesizing it into a story with recommendations
  • Advanced presentation skills (Google Docs, Keynote, Excel) and grasp of current social networking systems

Preferred

  • Experience working within marketing ecosystem (e.g., media agency, content providers, or brands)
  • Familiarity with marketing channels and KPIs, acquisition funnel analysis, campaign effectiveness evaluation
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Founded in 2007
San Francisco, California, USA
64K employees (7,318 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
85M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.8%
Direct
65.5%
Referral
2.6%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~64.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,349 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
15.5 years
Median Tenure
4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$6.4B
Last Raise
$1B
Debt Financing, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2020
    Debt Financing • $1B
  • Apr 2020
    Private Equity • $1B
  • Dec 2019
    Secondary Market • $25M

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