Marketing Operations Manager

Draper, UT (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive marketing operations leadership to manage campaigns, data hygiene, and process improvements across teams.

  • Must-have: 5+ years in marketing operations and 3+ years leading a team with hands-on automation platform experience.
  • Standout: Strong cross-functional collaboration and backlog governance for scalable campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and Develop the Team: Manage and mentor a team of marketing operations specialists, setting clear goals, providing feedback, and fostering professional growth.
  • Oversee Campaign Execution: Ensure seamless configuration, quality review, deployment, and accurate reporting and monitoring of automated marketing campaigns across channels.
  • Optimize Processes and Governance: Reinforce best practices, documentation, and operational standards for campaign execution.
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with Creative and Marketing teams to translate strategy into executable plans, ensuring campaigns and promotions are delivered on time, on brand, and with the operational rigor needed to scale efficiently.
  • Platform Optimization: Work with the Systems Administrators to improve system performance, data hygiene, integration, and automation logic.
  • Strategic Prioritization: Serve as the point of escalation for the marketing operations backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder priorities.
  • Performance Measurement: Deliver regular reporting and insights on operational metrics, and team productivity.
  • Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of experimentation and growth mindset.
  • Communication and Alignment: Translate complex technical or process concepts into clear business value for stakeholders at all levels.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in marketing operations, campaign management, or marketing automation roles.
  • 3+ years of experience leading and developing a team of direct reports.
  • Hands-on experience with marketing automation platforms (e.g., Braze, Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, RedPoint)
  • Experience managing complex operational initiatives, such as new marketing platform implementation and adoption.
  • Proficiency in HTML/CSS and understanding of marketing automation workflows.
  • Strong grasp of marketing data, process optimization, and campaign lifecycle management.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
  • Experience building demand generation and customer lifecycle automation programs.
  • Proven ability to translate data into insights and action.
  • Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Benefits

  • Free eye exams for your entire family
  • Deep discounts on lenses, glasses, and other services
  • Amazing healthcare coverage
  • 401(k) match
  • Flexible PTO
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • In-house restaurant with highly discounted meals (Steak dinner under $6)
  • Free snacks, ice cream, and drinks every day
  • Full onsite gym

1-800 Contacts

3.5 Glassdoor

We put our people first. Before our customers. Before the business. Unconventional? You bet it is. Our cofounders understood if we take care of our people, the rest takes care of itself. Here, that means frontline empowerment, parental bonding time, free mental health resources, development opportunities, and more. We’re a company that aims big, fails fast, and cheers on one another. 100% guarantee? We live by our Gajillion Percent Promise. We’ve fulfilled more than 87 million orders, and last Deidra and her team checked, we have 86 million contacts in stock – ready to ship to our contact lens wearing friends. As workstyle needs have changed, we’ve listened and adapted. We’re recognized as a great place to work by companies like Forbes and Fortune 100 and attribute this to our people, culture, and the work we are doing. With our newly formed parent company, SeekWell, we can expand our ability to make vision care simple, affordable, and accessible beyond contact lenses: Luna for B2B vision care solutions and The Framery at 1-800 Contacts for the best online glasses-buying experience. Looking to join a team that’s passionate about pursuing a better way in vision care? Join us: https://www.1800contacts.com/careers

Founded in 1995
Draper, Utah, USA
603 employees (59 in marketing)
64% recommend to a friend
78% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.1M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.6%
Direct
48.6%
Referral
3.7%
Social
0.9%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~603

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
44 (7% of company)