Marketing Operations Associate

USA (Remote)

$56K/yr – $101K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive marketing project management and traffic coordination for campaigns, partnering with stakeholders to define needs, streamline processes, and maintain clear timelines across cross-functional teams.

  • Lead marketing project workflows and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Coordinate Salesforce Marketing Cloud design and deployment requests.
  • Foster timely, transparent communications and process improvements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • What You'll Do: We are looking for a strong communicator who is organized, tech-savvy, and has strong project management skills to work on our Marketing Operations & Technology team as a Marketing Operations Associate, focusing on project management and traffic coordination for marketing campaigns. This is a highly collaborative and extremely detail-oriented role!
  • Intake, organize, prep, and assign Salesforce Marketing Cloud design and deployment requests.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs and connection points.
  • Establish and nurture a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders.
  • Help evolve our processes with an eye toward optimization, collaboration, and efficiency.
  • Keep teammates and business partners aligned with clear, ongoing communication and timeline management.
  • Uphold project management collaboration tool standards and best practices

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in marketing, communications, advertising, or related field.
  • 2+ years of experience as a Traffic Coordinator, Marketing Coordinator, Marketing Analyst, Campaign Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Marketing Operations Associate, or in a similar role involving marketing project management, workflow coordination, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Proven experience managing projects in matrixed organizations.
  • Must be able to juggle multiple projects at a time while maintaining sharp attention to detail.
  • Demonstrable ability to communicate, present, and influence key stakeholders.
  • Must have strong interpersonal and decision-making skills.
  • Need strong customer service skills as well as the ability to connect and interact with a wide variety of people.
  • Ability to present ideas, negotiate, and solve problems.
  • Great listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience using Confluence and Microsoft Teams, or similar tools.

Benefits

  • Time Off Program: Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
  • Pension Eligible: Yes
  • Work Environments: This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, Charlotte, NC, and Raleigh, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.

Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group® is dedicated to improving the wealth and well-being of people and businesses around the world—helping more than 62M customers plan, protect, invest, and retire as of December 31, 2023. Along the way, we commit to supporting the communities where we do business. Improving our planet. And building a diverse, inclusive workforce. We’re proud to be recognized as a Best Place to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments for the 11th consecutive year, an Ethisphere World’s Most Ethical Companies for the 12th time and as Forbes The Best Employers for Diversity 2023. Disclosure: Insurance products issued by Principal National Life Insurance Company (except in NY) and Principal Life Insurance Company®. Plan administrative services offered by Principal Life. Principal Funds, Inc. is distributed by Principal Funds Distributor, Inc. Securities offered through Principal Securities, Inc., member SIPC and/or independent broker/dealers. Investment advisory services are offered through Principal Global Investors, LLC or its affiliates. Principal Asset ManagementSM is a trade name of Principal Global Investors, LLC. Referenced companies are members of the Principal Financial Group®, Des Moines, IA 50392. ©2024 Principal Financial Services, Inc. Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. ("Principal® Foundation") is a duly recognized 501(c)(3) entity focused on providing philanthropic support to programs that build financial security in the communities where Principal Financial Group, Inc. ("Principal") operates. While Principal Foundation receives funding from Principal, Principal Foundation is a distinct, independent, charitable entity. Principal Foundation does not practice any form of investment advisory services and is not authorized to do so. https://www.principal.com/social-media-disclosures

Des Moines, Iowa, USA
24K employees (675 in marketing)
76% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$56K/yr – $101K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$700M
Last Raise
$700M
Post IPO Debt, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $700M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$7.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
20.8%
Direct
74%
Referral
4.7%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~23.8K

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