Director, Partner & Consumer Marketing (Hybrid)

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$170K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

Job Summary

You will own the end-to-end design and optimization of loyalty promotions and partner campaigns, including modeling, testing, budgeting, segmentation, and communication across marketing, product, and finance.

  • Own end-to-end loyalty promotion design and optimization across partners
  • Lead testing, budgeting, segmentation, and cross-functional collaboration
  • Drive engagement and revenue through strategic communication and forecasting

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Structure promotional bundles: Design the architecture of consumer incentives, determining the optimal ratio of base purchasing power to "bonus credits" (e.g., establishing thresholds like Spend $100 get $20 , Spend $500 get $125 ) to maximize consumer spend.
  • Determine reward mechanics: Establish rules for how rewards and offers stack against each other.
  • Co-author co-branded promotions: Partner with the restaurant marketing team and directly with our loyalty partners to design exclusive, high-value introductory offers for premium consumer segments.
  • Manage promotion profitability: Partner with finance to monitor the financial performance and budget of all offers.
  • Set and govern budgets: Establish strict guardrails for Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and Lifetime Value (LTV) ratios to prevent margin erosion.
  • Forecast demand elasticity: Model how changes to consumer bonus percentages impact weekly credit sales volume and predict downstream impacts on budgets and revenue.
  • Build predictive cohort segmentation: Segment the consumer universe based on past purchase frequency, average spend, restaurant preferences, and other personalized data elements to trigger hyper-targeted offers.
  • Execute systematic A/B testing: Continuously test variables including discount types (dollar-off vs. percentage-off vs. value-add), visual presentation of offers, and offer copy.
  • Maximize member engagement: Manage the member lifecycle to drive engagement, program automated behavioral triggers that detect weakening engagement and inject custom win-back or rescue offers before a diner becomes in-active.
  • Analyze promotional lift and incrementality: Comprehensively manage offer performance and spend lift.

Requirements

  • Exceptional analytical skills and experience managing complex models, testing strategies, budgets, and implementation plans.
  • A deep and extensive understanding of the consumer, segmentation, communication, and offer strategy.
  • Exceptional ability to understand customer needs, position products effectively, and creatively design marketing solutions to meet customer needs
  • Exceptional ability to bring clarity to complex business situations, to apply frameworks to simplify a message, and to define the appropriate analysis to clearly communicate an outcome.
  • Demonstrated experience creating clear, sophisticated communications and messaging deliverables.
  • Experience interacting with senior leaders; comfortable asking detailed questions to clarify complex situations.
  • Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly into ambiguous, in-flight programs, and operate independently within days or weeks, not months.

Preferred

  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or related field
  • Proven track record of driving sustained revenue growth, scaling cross-functional teams, leading executive-level strategic initiatives and building modern, AI-enabled marketing organizations.
  • Marketing expert with 7+ years of experience leading consumer growth, lifecycle marketing, brand strategy and GTM execution.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
  • This is a full-time, exempt position and the base compensation for this opening in Chicago is expected to be $170,000-$200,000 annualized, depending on level, candidate experience, skills, and other factors.
  • This position will be eligible for an annual bonus program with a 20% bonus target for total at target of $204,000-$240,000.
  • Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
  • Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
  • 401(k) plan with a company match
  • Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
  • Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
  • Two dental plan options and a vision plan
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
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Rewards Network

Rewards Network is a leading fintech company providing marketing, loyalty rewards programs, and capital for the restaurant industry. Founded in 1984, Rewards Network enhances the restaurant experience for diners by offering unique card-linked offers that leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics while simultaneously providing value to our strategic partners’ overall loyalty programs.

Founded in 1984
Chicago, Illinois, USA
732 employees (32 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$170K/yr – $200K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
26 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
5.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
132.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.6%
Direct
64.8%
Referral
8.8%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~732
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Director, Partner & Consumer Marketing (Hybrid)

Rewards Network · Chicago, IL · Hybrid