Digital Marketing Director - Marketing Automation and Channel Operations

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$175K/yr – $239K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own the demand-generation operations and marketing automation function, guiding strategy, governance, and adoption of martech including Salesforce Marketing Cloud to deliver data-driven, personalized journeys.

  • Build and operationalize demand-generation operations
  • Lead cross-functional partnerships to optimize campaigns, testing, and measurement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Elevate the existing channel strategy and management organization by developing new skills in marketing automation, journey orchestration, campaign operations, personalization, testing, and performance optimization.
  • Build and operationalize a new demand-generation operations capability, including campaign orchestration, audience activation, nurture execution, lead/customer journey operations, testing, measurement, and continuous optimization.
  • Own the business strategy, roadmap, governance, adoption, and optimization of the marketing technology capabilities that enable demand generation, personalization, channel activation, and measurement, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Identify capability gaps and recommend technology, process, or data solutions that improve marketing effectiveness and operational efficiency.
  • Increase the maturity and adoption of marketing automation across the organization, moving from one-time campaign execution toward always-on, data-driven customer journeys.
  • Communicate the measurable business impact of digital initiatives to stakeholders and partners.
  • Own the operational excellence, governance, publishing model, releases, quality, performance, and continuous improvement of the website, email, organic search (SEO/AEO), and learning management system.
  • Define and/or optimize the operating model, processes, roles, workflows, governance, and capabilities required to scale demand-generation programs across the enterprise.
  • Continuously identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve cycle time, increase reuse, and automate repeatable processes and improve our scalable channel and campaign operating model covering intake, prioritization, capacity planning, workflow, approvals, QA, deployment, and measurement.
  • Drive responsible adoption of automation and AI capabilities that improve campaign development, personalization, testing, optimization, and channel operations.
  • Cultivate strong relationships with key business line and marketing and technology teams to inform strategy, gain alignment, and drive cross‑organizational buy‑in.

Requirements

  • 8 years of experience in digital marketing channel management including proven experience transforming digital solutions with marketing technology.
  • 5 years of experience in leading or building a demand generation or lifecycle marketing team leveraging marketing automation strategies.
  • Proven ability to build and lead digital marketing teams and deliver large‑scale, cross‑organizational initiatives with multiple complex workstreams across a digital ecosystem.
  • Strong understanding of modern martech ecosystems, including marketing automation, CMS, CRM/customer data, analytics, identity/audience management, personalization, and integrations and cross-channel lifecycle strategy (email, SMS, in-app, on-site messaging), and learning management systems like Docebo.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business and marketing strategy into technology, data, process, and operating-model requirements.
  • Strong foundation in data-driven decisioning, testing methodologies, and measurement frameworks.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder influence, and organizational leadership skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibly applying new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to reimagine how we work.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience as a leader or strategic partner using marketing automation platforms (e.g. Acquia, Drupal, Google Analytics Suite, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud).
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and modern digital development practices.
  • Track record of developing and executing strategies for websites or digital solutions that drive sales and strengthen customer relationships.
  • Experience within financial services or similarly complex/regulated industries.

Benefits

  • The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at Fanniemae.com/careers.
  • Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company.
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$175K/yr – $239K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$708M
Last Raise
$708M
Post IPO Debt, 2 years ago

Funding History

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Referral
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Social
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Digital Marketing Director - Marketing Automation and Channel Operations

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