Senior Director, Marketing Operations

Charlotte, NC (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the marketing operating model end to end, aligning planning, governance, and performance while orchestrating cross-functional execution with AI-enabled workflows that drive scale.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Establish process, decision rights, and accountability for marketing execution.
  • Operations Orchestration: Coordinate across teams, channels, and vendors for efficient, aligned delivery.
  • AI/Automation: Design AI-enabled workflows that scale content ops, campaign orchestration, and decision-support.

Job Description

  • Lead and optimize the end-to-end enterprise marketing operating model, ensuring alignment across planning, prioritization, execution, governance, and performance management.
  • Establish clear processes, decision rights, and accountability structures across marketing and key partner functions.
  • Serve as the central orchestrator across teams, channels, platforms, and stakeholders to ensure coordinated, efficient execution.
  • Translate strategic priorities into scalable operational plans that enable business growth and marketing effectiveness.
  • Implement and manage Marketing Resource Management (MRM) capabilities, including budget planning, forecasting, resource allocation, capacity management, and vendor governance.
  • Drive operational transparency and financial discipline across marketing investments, resources, and priorities.
  • Ensure clear linkage between marketing investments, execution activities, performance outcomes, and business objectives.
  • Develop frameworks that optimize resource utilization, improve productivity, and enhance return on marketing spend.
  • Design and implement AI-enabled workflows and automation capabilities that enhance efficiency, scalability, and execution quality.
  • Advance automation across campaign orchestration, content operations, personalization, and decision-support processes.

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.

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First Citizens Bank

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First Citizens Bank helps personal, business, commercial and wealth clients build financial strength that lasts. Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., First Citizens has built a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations. First Citizens offers an array of general banking services including a network of more than 500 branches and offices in 30 states; commercial banking expertise delivering best-in-class lending, leasing and other financial services coast to coast; innovation banking serving businesses at every stage; and a nationwide direct bank. Parent company First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets.Visit firstcitizens.com or call toll-free 1.888.FC DIRECT (1.888.323.4732). First Citizens Bank. Forever First®. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.Social Media Terms of Use: https://www.firstcitizens.com/socialterms

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
18K employees (160 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
87% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$229.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
17.7%
Direct
75.2%
Referral
6.2%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
133 (1% of company)
Median Career Experience
26 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$33M
Last Raise
$10M
Post IPO Debt, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2021
    Post IPO Debt • $10M
  • Aug 2018
    Post IPO Debt • $23M

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