Associate Director of Business Marketing - M&A, PE, Capital Markets

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$225K/yr – $275K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the cross-functional BU marketing strategy and narrative, translating plans into briefs, shaping audience segments, and guiding practice-specific personalization and spend, with an emphasis on high-stakes pursuits and enterprise roadmaps.

  • Cross-functional ownership: translate practice plans into action briefs and align channel strategies with BU priorities.
  • Audience & personalization: define buyer segments and triggers to deliver the right message at the practice level.
  • Strategy & governance: leadAlways Ready materials, budget stewardship, and high-stakes pitches in collaboration with Client Development and Pursuits & Proposals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Plan Translation: Lead the translation of practice-specific marketing plans into detailed briefs for the Campaign Strategy team, ensuring customer journeys are engineered to deliver BU outcomes.
  • Audience & Persona Consultation: Act as the primary consultant for the Insights team on buyer profiles and influencers, providing the practice-specific logic required for build-out of segments.
  • Practice Development Roadmap: Direct the strategy for practice-building initiatives, ensuring "Always Ready" materials and sales touchpoints reflect current market trends and buyer behavior.
  • Cross-Functional Liaison: Partner with leaders across MCD to ensure BU priorities are reflected in enterprise roadmaps and channel strategies.
  • Personalization Logic Strategy: Define the triggers and content requirements for practice-level personalization, ensuring the "right message" is delivered to the practice’s target buyers.
  • Budget & Sponsorship Stewardship: Oversee the BU-specific marketing budget, providing strategic recommendations on the ROI of sponsorships and practice-level spend.
  • High-Stakes Narrative Leadership: Lead the strategy and narrative development for the BU’s most complex and high-stakes pitches and proposals in collaboration with the Client Development and Pursuits & Proposal’s team.
  • Optimization Consultation: Collaborate with Insights & Optimization to interpret dashboard data and proactively recommend strategic shifts in the marketing plan.
  • People Leader: Serve as direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports
  • Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensure compliance with assigned work hours and monitor for compliance with all firm and department policies. Manage staffing coverage, review and process time logs/time off requests

Requirements

  • After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
  • Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
  • Ability to travel, as required
  • 8+ years of applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development), with 4+ years management experience (some at the senior level preferred)
  • Prior professional services industry experience and/or B2B marketing experience
  • Demonstrated industry experience in private equity
  • Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred

  • Prior legal industry experience

Benefits

  • We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits.
  • In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 25 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits.
  • New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.
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