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
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.
Salaries
Posted range
$170K/yr – $200K/yr
Taken straight from the job posting.
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










