Director, Growth & Engagement Strategy

Minneapolis, MN (On-site)

$155K/yr – $175K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive growth and engagement strategy for Portico across employer, employee, member, and church audiences, translating priorities into integrated campaigns and pre-conversion engagement.

  • Own cross-channel growth planning and audience activation.
  • Must-have: 7-10 years in marketing/engagement strategy.
  • Standout: Leadership of go-to-market and multi-audience campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Leads growth and engagement strategy across Portico’s priority audiences with a focus on awareness, discovery, consideration, and conversion-oriented business goals.
  • Develops and oversees integrated go-to-market, campaign, and engagement strategies that strengthen audience awareness, interest, consideration, and action.
  • Provides strategic leadership for awareness, discovery, and pre-conversion engagement strategies across employer, employee, member, and church audiences.
  • Partners with enterprise leaders, business development partners, and internal stakeholders to translate business priorities into coordinated engagement strategies.
  • Guides communications and campaign direction that support audience awareness, discovery, activation, and conversion readiness.
  • Identifies opportunities to improve audience movement, engagement, and value realization across channels and touchpoints.
  • Partners with Brand & Market Strategy, Digital Channels, and Marketing Operations leaders to ensure growth and engagement strategies are effectively activated across campaigns, channels, and pre-conversion audience journeys.
  • Directs team members to ensure clear priorities, strong collaboration, and cohesive execution.
  • Ensures communications are reviewed by legal counsel and other required reviewers, as appropriate.
  • Oversees the ongoing review and refinement of growth strategies, campaign performance, and audience communications to ensure continued alignment, clarity, effectiveness, and conversion impact over time.

Requirements

  • 7-10 years’ experience in marketing, communications, growth, customer engagement, or related strategy environments.
  • Management of a marketing function with progressive responsibility
  • Experience leading go-to-market strategy, demand generation, campaign strategy, audience acquisition, or pre-conversion engagement across multiple channels.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or a related field

Nice To Have

  • MBA preferred
  • Experience in financial, health care or other employee benefits fields desired
  • Agency experience in integrated campaigns, growth strategy, or customer engagement desired
  • Agile/Agile Marketing Certification preferred

Benefits

  • Portico offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes premiums paid for health care coverage and a 10% employer retirement contribution as well as competitive time off and wellness benefits.