Senior Director of Marketing Strategy & Activation

New York City, NY (On-site)

$175K/yr – $210K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Lead and evolve adMarketplace’s brand, messaging, and integrated marketing programs across search, commerce media, and AI advertising to drive awareness, engagement, and measurable business outcomes.

  • Own content strategy and executive communications
  • Build cross-functional programs with Growth Activation, Sales, and Product Marketing
  • Develop and manage a high-performing marketing team and partnerships

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the execution and evolution of adMarketplace's brand positioning and messaging across the search, commerce media, and AI-driven advertising landscape.
  • Develop and execute integrated marketing, communications, thought leadership, and industry engagement programs that strengthen adMarketplace's brand, increase market visibility, and drive measurable business outcomes.
  • Ensure a consistent and differentiated brand experience across all market-facing touchpoints, including digital properties, communications, events, partner ecosystems, and the company website.
  • Partner with the Growth Activation, Sales, Advertiser Success, Supply, and Product teams to develop and execute integrated marketing programs that strengthen awareness, engagement, and commercial outcomes.
  • Oversee integrated marketing activations across content, social media, email marketing, webinars, digital campaigns, partner marketing, and field events, partnering with the Growth Activation team on demand generation and ABM initiatives.
  • Monitor marketing performance across campaign effectiveness, audience engagement, digital performance, brand awareness, marketing ROI, and campaign analytics, partnering with Growth Activation on pipeline measurement and attribution.
  • Partner with Commercial and Product Marketing teams to activate go-to-market initiatives that drive awareness, engagement, customer adoption, and commercial success.
  • Represent adMarketplace at industry conferences, webinars, client meetings, and marketing events.
  • Build strong relationships across agencies, publishers, customers, strategic partners, and industry influencers to strengthen adMarketplace's market presence.
  • Own the company's content strategy across thought leadership, executive communications, social media, editorial content, customer storytelling, webinars, and sales enablement.

Requirements

  • 8–12 years of progressive B2B marketing experience, including 3+ years leading high-performing marketing teams.
  • Experience leading integrated marketing organizations within adtech, digital media, search, commerce media, AI-powered technology, SaaS, or other B2B technology companies.
  • Demonstrated success driving brand awareness, thought leadership, integrated marketing campaigns, and customer engagement within B2B organizations.
  • Experience marketing AI-powered, data-driven, or technically sophisticated products and translating complex technologies into compelling customer value propositions and market narratives.
  • Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence clients, partners, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical mindset with experience leveraging marketing performance metrics, attribution models, campaign analytics, and ROI analysis to inform decision-making.
  • Experience leading and developing high-performing marketing teams while managing agency partners, budgets, and cross-functional initiatives.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities and ambitious growth objectives.

Benefits

  • We know you’ve come to expect comprehensive healthcare, wellness programs, paid time off, commuter benefits, and 401k matching from any company, so it’s a good thing we offer all of that and so much more.
  • adMarketplace offers Summer Fridays, catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen, ZogSports teams, happy hours and corporate retreats to encourage a strong work/life balance.
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adMarketplace

adMarketplace is the leader in native search advertising for over 25 years. We deliver relevant search ads that are native to the apps, sites, and platforms consumers actively use, outside of legacy search engines. The world's largest advertisers achieve efficiency and incremental campaign results from adMarketplace's exclusive media. As a two-sided marketplace, we also serve as the leading monetisation partner for publishers on the open web. Our mission is to shape the consumer journey with relevant native search ads, and to measure media value transparently to deliver performance at scale.

Founded in 2000
New York, New York, USA
235 employees (49 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
10.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.2%
Direct
47.3%
Referral
8.3%
Social
6.5%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~235

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
45 (19% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

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