Associate Director, Marketing Systems

Stanford, CA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own the recruitment systems, campaigns, and automation stack, delivering end-to-end program plans, dashboards, and vendor coordination across multiple regions.

  • Own recruitment campaign systems and project management across ads, pages, tracking, forms, and journeys.
  • Develop and refine dashboards, automation, and vendor relations to scale a global team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Recruitment campaign systems and project management.
  • Serve as project manager for the annual recruitment campaign, turning requirements into a plan with clear owners and deadlines across every workstream (ads, landing pages, tracking, forms, and journeys), and keeping each phase on schedule ahead of the fixed campaign window.
  • Working with the directors of both IT and communications, as well as external contractors, you will oversee the technical foundation of the campaign, including landing page performance for mobile-first, lower-bandwidth audiences, and coordinate accurate tracking and attribution (Google Tag Manager, analytics, UTMs).
  • You'll lead the development/refinement/maintenance of campaign dashboards for monitoring and year-on-year comparison, giving us the visibility to make real-time decisions.
  • Marketing automation and journeys.
  • In partnership with Seed's IT team who share responsibility for platform administration and data infrastructure, you will manage our marketing automation platforms (Pardot, GupShup, and related tools).
  • Design and maintain automated email and WhatsApp journeys across the recruitment funnel and program communications, keep our data and list segmentation clean, and provide the metrics required for decision-making.
  • Vendor and contractor management.
  • Manage day-to-day relationships with technical contractors, from web developers to paid media and tracking specialists.
  • Set clear briefs and standards, verify their work and on-time delivery, and ensure Seed retains ownership of its critical accounts and platforms.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience, or combination of education and relevant experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish priorities, manage shifting priorities, and handle numerous time-sensitive projects with multiple deadlines.
  • Ability to accomplish goals working through formal and informal channels, with diplomacy and tactfulness.
  • Demonstrated creativity, problem solving, critical analysis, initiative, judgment and, decision-making skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and meet budget goals.
  • Demonstrated solid planning and organizational skills.
  • Demonstrated experience working independently and as part of a team.
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
  • Strong relevant subject matter knowledge.
  • Ability to direct the work of others, for jobs requiring supervision.
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Stanford, California, USA
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Total Funding
$10M
Last Raise
$10M
Grant, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2023
    Grant
  • Jul 2017
    Grant • $10M

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Referral
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Social
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Paid
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Associate Director, Marketing Systems

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