Sr. Manager - Marketing Research

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$181K/yr – $289K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end research programs for Visa client marketing, turning complex findings into actionable guidance that shapes strategy, messaging, and activations.

  • Lead qualitative and quantitative studies across campaign effectiveness, brand lift, testing, journey research, and audience insights.
  • Translate research into executive-ready storytelling and practical recommendations for cross-functional teams.
  • Manage external vendors from scoping to final presentation while ensuring solid methodology and clear impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with Visa clients and internal stakeholders to understand business objectives, marketing priorities, campaign goals, and research needs.
  • Translate client business questions into research plans that inform marketing strategy, campaign development, audience understanding, messaging, channel planning, and activations.
  • Build strong relationships with client stakeholders by demonstrating credibility, responsiveness, curiosity, and business acumen.
  • Lead quantitative and qualitative research initiatives, including campaign effectiveness studies, brand lift, creative testing, positioning and messaging testing, concept testing, journey research, experiential research, audience insights/segmentation, and brand and competitive positioning.
  • Develop research briefs, questionnaires, discussion guides, sample plans, analysis plans, and reporting frameworks in partnership with vendors and internal stakeholders.
  • Ensure research is methodologically sound, aligned to client business objectives, and designed to produce actionable recommendations.
  • Manage external research vendors from scoping and proposal review through execution, analysis, reporting, and final presentation.
  • Synthesize complex findings into clear, compelling narratives that connect insights, implications, and recommended actions.
  • Develop executive-ready presentations and present findings confidently to clients, internal teams, and senior stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with Marketing Services, strategy, creative, media, analytics, and account teams to shape insight-led recommendations for clients.
  • Contribute to the broader Insights & Analytics agenda by identifying opportunities to improve research processes, share learnings, and scale insights across clients.
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Visa

Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Learn more at Visa.com.

Founded in 2011
Foster City, California, USA
29K employees (1,634 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$113.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.8%
Direct
47.1%
Referral
8.8%
Social
1.2%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~29.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,328 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
19 years
Median Tenure
6.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
16

Funding

Last Raise
Post IPO Equity, 10 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2016
    Post IPO Equity

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