Executive Vice President, Performance Marketing

Detroit, MI (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive30+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead performance marketing at scale, owning multi-channel strategy, large budgets, and a senior team to drive revenue growth.

  • Own all performance marketing and direct response across the company and portfolio.
  • Must-have: 20+ years in performance or growth marketing with multi-channel leadership.
  • Standout: Board-facing reporting and senior leadership collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead all performance marketing and direct response advertising activities across the company and its portfolio of brands
  • Oversee the strategy and investment of a large-scale, multi-channel marketing budget, ensuring maximum revenue generation while lowering customer acquisition costs
  • Drive performance across all major direct response channels including paid search, paid social, programmatic, direct mail, affiliates, and lead buy
  • Advance marketing performance through sophisticated campaign management, structured experimentation frameworks, advanced attribution models, and AI-enabled optimization techniques
  • Lead the development and testing of innovative creative approaches including AI-generated creative, dynamic creative optimization, and emerging direct response formats
  • Lead and develop a high performing team of performance marketers, analysts and channel specialists while building a strong culture of accountability, experimentation, and continuous improvement
  • Build and manage strategic relationships with external advertising agencies while continuously evaluating the optimal balance of in-house capabilities and external partners
  • Partner closely with brand marketing leaders to execute a coordinated, full-funnel marketing strategy that integrates brand and performance initiatives
  • Deliver clear reporting and insights on marketing performance, investment efficiency and growth opportunities to senior leadership and the board
  • Serve as a senior enterprise leader contributing to company strategy, growth planning and operational decision making

Requirements

  • 20 years of experience in performance marketing, growth marketing, direct response advertising or other highly measurable customer acquisition disciplines
  • 10 years of leadership experience managing large, high-performing, multi-channel marketing organizations
  • Proven track record of managing large-scale marketing investment portfolios and delivering measurable revenue growth while improving customer acquisition efficiency and return on marketing investment (ROMI)
  • Deep expertise across major direct response channels including paid search, paid social, programmatic, email, affiliate, and direct mail
  • Demonstrated success optimizing marketing performance through advanced campaign management techniques including value-based bidding, structured experimentation frameworks and AI-enabled optimization
  • Experience leading large internal performance marketing teams while managing strategic agency partnerships
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate complex performance data into clear insights and actionable growth strategies
  • Excellent executive communication and presentation skills with experience engaging C-suite executives, senior leadership teams, and boards of directors
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, high-growth, data-drive and performance-oriented environments
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, analytics, or a related field

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in marketing, business, analytics or a related field
  • Experience managing very large-scale, multi-channel advertising budgets ($500M+) across multiple brands or business lines
  • Experience leveraging advanced AI, machine learning, and marketing automation tools to enhance marketing performance and creative development
  • Experience in financial services, fintech, technology or large-scale consumer marketplace industries

Benefits

  • What You’ll Get
  • Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too!
  • We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life.
  • We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind.
  • Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.
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Founded in 1970
1.7K employees (195 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
73% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
66K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$923
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.5%
Direct
51.7%
Referral
8.1%
Social
2.4%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
114 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
2.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
$215.6M
Grant, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2023
    Grant • $215.6M

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