Senior Marketing Automation Solution Architect

USA (Remote)

$102K/yr – $163K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and shape Marketing's Salesforce Marketing Cloud strategy and roadmap, translating priorities into scalable SFMC capabilities while elevating cross-functional knowledge and aligning with business goals.

  • Define the SFMC capability roadmap with cross-functional partners
  • Grow marketer productivity through reusable resources and self-service guidance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own Marketing's Salesforce Marketing Cloud Strategy and Roadmap
  • Define and own the marketing-side Salesforce Marketing Cloud capability roadmap with Marketing Operations, Data, Digital, Analytics, RevOps, IT, and Marketing leadership.
  • Translate marketing strategies and business priorities into prioritized SFMC capabilities and solution recommendations.
  • Find opportunities to improve targeting, segmentation, personalization, journey orchestration, and triggered communications through SFMC.
  • Evaluate platform limitations, operational challenges, and technical debt to prioritize improvements and investments.
  • Define SFMC's future role within the marketing ecosystem while maintaining a platform-agnostic perspective.
  • Raise the Baseline of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Knowledge
  • Serve as Marketing's senior subject matter expert for SFMC capabilities, architecture, and standards.
  • Raise SFMC knowledge across campaign producers through practical guidance, reusable resources, playbooks, and standards.
  • Enable producers and operations teams on SFMC automation, segmentation, personalization, data, and journey capabilities.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in marketing automation, marketing technology, campaign operations, marketing operations, or related technology functions.
  • Deep expertise with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, including automation, segmentation, personalization, audience management, data, journey orchestration, and campaign execution.
  • Experience translating complex business requirements into scalable marketing automation and Salesforce Marketing Cloud solutions.
  • Strong understanding of SFMC architecture, integrations, data, workflows, campaign operations, and customer experience.
  • Experience partnering with IT, engineering, data, and architecture teams on complex technology initiatives.
  • Broad marketing automation experience with the ability to apply principles beyond Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
  • Strong ability to enable teams, raise platform knowledge, and explain technical concepts to non-technical partners.
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex problems and balance business value, speed, scalability, and risk.
  • Excellent communication, internal partner management, facilitation, and cross-functional partnership skills.

Preferred

  • Experience supporting Salesforce Marketing Cloud in a complex enterprise environment with multiple business units or customer journeys.
  • Experience with additional marketing automation platforms such as Marketo, Adobe Campaign, Oracle Eloqua, or HubSpot.
  • Experience supporting marketing automation transformations, platform migrations, business process redesign, or large-scale capability initiatives.
  • Working knowledge of AI-enabled marketing automation, personalization, campaign operations, or workflow capabilities.
  • Experience supporting global marketing teams in edtech, SaaS, digital learning, publishing, or similarly complex organizations.
  • Desire to influence the future of marketing and have fun!
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Cengage

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Cengage, a global edtech company, supports learners, educators and institutions across more than 100 countries. With products serving nearly 16 million digital users across the Higher Education, School, Work and English Language Learning markets, we’ve built a learning ecosystem that connects education to employment. We combine trusted content, AI-powered insights and scalable digital platforms to power learning for every future and drive meaningful outcomes at every stage of the learning journey.

Founded in 1903
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4.6K employees (940 in marketing)
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$102K/yr – $163K/yr

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