Sr. Marketing Activation Specialist

Redlands, CA (On-site)

$87K/yr – $141K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end activation workflow for buyer-aligned paid and owned channels, guiding strategy through execution, measurement, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Define activation plans and translate into execution requirements
  • Assess in-market activations and surface optimization insights
  • Share learnings with channel strategists to inform future guidance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support and guide development of buyer-aligned paid and owned channel activation strategy in support of awareness, engagement, and demand goals. Ensure media and creative tactics align to target personas and stages of the buyer journey.
  • Translate activation plans into actionable execution requirements. Maintain timelines, coordinate asset production, and support timely deployment across platforms.
  • Assess in-market activations. Evaluate execution quality and engagement signals to surface activation insights and support optimization recommendations in partnership with channel strategists and production teams.
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with cross‑functional stakeholders. Ensure activation‑relevant alignment and consistency across media and creative efforts and communicate performance observations and activation insights to support and influence informed decision‑making.
  • Document campaign assessments and best practices to improve repeatability, speed to launch, and performance across future programs. Share learnings with channel strategists to inform future activation guidance.
  • Stay current on cross-channel and creative best practices. Apply relevant learnings to creative evaluation and activation guidance across campaigns.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in B2B digital marketing, campaign activation, or performance‑driven marketing roles
  • Demonstrated experience managing paid media, email marketing, and integrated digital campaigns from planning to reporting
  • Ability to interpret activation and channel‑level performance signals and translate them into actionable recommendations
  • Proven experience collaborating with strategists, creatives, analytics partners, and cross‑functional stakeholders
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field
  • Occasional travel may be required (up to ~20%); travel needs may vary based on business requirements.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this posting. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field
  • Experience supporting B2B tech marketing campaigns in a matrixed or center‑of‑excellence marketing organization
  • Experience with digital marketing tools such as Marketo, Hubspot, or other related marketing technology
  • Familiarity with buyer journeys and how creative sequencing supports progression across channels
  • Experience contributing to creative performance reporting and activation insight development

Benefits

  • Esri’s competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.
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Esri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. Since 1969, we have supported customers with geographic science and geospatial analytics, what we call The Science of Where. We take a geographic approach to problem-solving, brought to life by modern GIS technology.

Founded in 1969
Redlands, California, USA
7.1K employees (543 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$21.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
51.6%
Direct
36.9%
Referral
9.5%
Social
1.1%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
361 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
7.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

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