Director, Campaign Operations

USA (Remote)

$138K/yr – $221K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and scale campaign operations from strategy to governance, building an efficient production model and automation capabilities in collaboration with Marketing, Revenue, Digital, and Product leaders.

  • Own the campaign operations capability roadmap and drive scalable campaign execution
  • Improve velocity, quality, and time-to-market through automation, templates, and self-service
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to align investments with growth objectives

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own Campaign Operations Excellence
  • Define and evolve the enterprise campaign operations strategy, operating model, production processes, governance, and service model to enable scalable campaign execution.
  • Build and optimize an efficient production model using a combination of internal teams, marketer self-service, and external agency or managed-service resources.
  • Establish planning standards, templates, workflows, intake processes, and reusable campaign components that help marketers work faster while maintaining quality and consistency.
  • Drive operational excellence by measuring and improving campaign production timelines, velocity, throughput, quality, and predictability.
  • Identify bottlenecks and opportunities across the campaign lifecycle and implement improvements that accelerate time-to-market, increase quality, and drive outcomes.
  • Establish clear expectations, operational metrics, and continuous improvement practices across campaign operations.
  • Unlock Marketing Capabilities to Drive Growth
  • Own the campaign operations capability roadmap, translating business priorities and marketer needs into scalable campaign execution, personalization, and automation capabilities.
  • Partner with Marketing, Revenue, Digital, and Product leaders to align campaign investments and operational priorities with growth objectives.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in marketing operations, campaign operations, marketing automation, or related marketing technology and production functions, including experience leading teams in complex enterprise environments.
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating efficient, scalable campaign production or marketing automation models.
  • Strong understanding of marketing strategies, campaign operations, marketing automation, workflow management, and production processes.
  • Experience translating business and marketer requirements into technology, process, workflow, or automation solutions.
  • Demonstrated experience improving operational efficiency, campaign velocity, quality, and time-to-market.
  • Strong understanding of personalization, segmentation, customer journeys, testing, and campaign optimization.
  • Experience managing internal production teams alongside external agencies, managed services, or other flexible resource models.
  • Strong analytical skills and experience using operational and performance data to drive prioritization and continuous improvement.
  • Ability to balance strategy with operational execution and technical problem solving.
  • Strong executive communication, marketing partner management, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Preferred

  • Hands-on expertise with marketing automation platforms, with Salesforce Marketing Cloud strongly preferred.
  • Proficiency with Workfront or other enterprise workflow and work management platforms.
  • Success operating within centralized marketing operations organizations or center-of-excellence models.
  • Success supporting large-scale B2B, B2C, and/or B2B2C campaign operations.
  • Expertise building personalization programs and automated customer journey capabilities.
  • Working knowledge of AI-enabled marketing workflows, content operations, and campaign optimization.
  • Strong understanding of email, audience data, and customer communication governance, including CAN-SPAM, CCPA, GDPR, consent management, accessibility, deliverability, and privacy requirements.
  • Industry background in education, EdTech, SaaS, digital learning, publishing, or similarly complex enterprise environments.
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Cengage, a global edtech company, supports learners, educators and institutions across more than 100 countries. With products serving nearly 16 million digital users across the Higher Education, School, Work and English Language Learning markets, we’ve built a learning ecosystem that connects education to employment. We combine trusted content, AI-powered insights and scalable digital platforms to power learning for every future and drive meaningful outcomes at every stage of the learning journey.

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