Director of Marketing Strategy & Client Services

Temecula, CA (Hybrid)

$95K/yr – $120K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end client strategy and delivery from discovery to execution, leading teams, shaping proposals and integrated plans, and ensuring client success across paid media, creative, and production.

  • Lead client strategy, discovery, and presentations
  • Oversee cross-functional teams to deliver integrated marketing plans

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead discovery conversations, client meetings, and selected prospect presentations. Build relationships that lead to strong, trusted client partnerships.
  • Learn how each client’s business, products, audiences, competitors, offers, and goals fit together, then turn that understanding into clear recommendations.
  • Develop proposals, pitch decks, scopes of work, campaign concepts, creative briefs, scripts, ad copy, landing-page copy, and other client-facing materials.
  • Provide people leadership across client services, marketing operations, creative, and production. Help set priorities, improve accountability, and keep the team moving. Initially, you will directly manage the Marketing Operations & Production Manager, with the potential to oversee additional team members.
  • Build integrated marketing plans that bring together strategy, paid media, performance creative, video, content, and event marketing.
  • Turn business objectives into clear direction for creative, design, video, media, and external partners. Review the work to make sure it is relevant, well written, and tied to the client’s goals.
  • Work with paid-media resources to connect creative, targeting, testing, media strategy, and results. Prepare client reports, optimization recommendations, and next steps.
  • Manage client expectations, scope, deliverables, timelines, and communication from kickoff through completion.
  • Help shape flywhl’s brand, intellectual property, service offerings, and position in the market.

Requirements

  • Seven or more years of experience in marketing strategy, account leadership, brand marketing, advertising, agency services, or a related field.
  • Experience developing marketing strategies, presenting recommendations, and leading conversations with clients or senior stakeholders.
  • Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear, persuasive, brand-appropriate copy for proposals, campaigns, ads, scripts, websites, and social media.
  • A strong understanding of positioning, messaging, customer journeys, campaign development, creative strategy, paid media, audience development, testing, and performance reporting.
  • The ability to manage multiple clients and workstreams, turn unclear business problems into practical plans, collaborate across teams, meet deadlines, and work with limited supervision.
  • Comfort working with tools such as Asana, Slack, Google Docs, Google Sheets, presentation software, AI tools, and marketing platforms.

Preferred

  • Experience with automotive, performance, aftermarket, enthusiast, lifestyle, or powersports brands.
  • Experience working in a marketing or advertising agency.
  • Experience developing pitch decks, proposals, case studies, brand platforms, customer personas, messaging frameworks, campaign concepts, or content strategies.
  • Familiarity with creative and video production, paid social, YouTube advertising, email marketing, websites, conversion-focused campaigns, automotive events, experiential marketing, and sponsorships.
  • Experience working with CEOs, marketing directors, sales teams, and other senior stakeholders.
  • A strong understanding of enthusiast culture and how automotive consumers discover, evaluate, and buy products.

Benefits

  • We provide a full benefits package, including contributions toward medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), paid time off, holidays, and sick leave.
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POWER Automotive Media

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Power Automedia believes in the magic of the automobile. At Power Automedia, the car isn’t just a way to get from point A to point B, it’s a way of life.We publish automotive websites. We love producing beautiful automotive content that is artfully written. We pioneered the automotive digital media revolution, and have continued to innovate to stay on the forefront of the digital landscape.

Founded in 2006
Temecula, California, USA
55 employees (28 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend

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