Sr. Director, Digital Marketing

Portland, OR (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end delivery of digital advertising, SEO, and website services for equipment dealer clients, shaping quality standards, scalable operations, and AI-assisted workflows.

  • Lead cross-functional delivery across advertising, SEO, and website support
  • Define SOPs, reporting templates, and delivery standards
  • Drive AI-enabled automation and data storytelling for clients

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end delivery of digital advertising, SEO, and website services for equipment dealer clients
  • Establish and enforce quality standards — every campaign, every report, every deliverable
  • Build and maintain SOPs that allow the team to execute consistently as the client book grows
  • Serve as the internal escalation point when client issues arise; resolve before they reach account leadership
  • Ensure every client receives clear, accurate, and timely performance reporting
  • Partner with the Catalyst product team to identify and implement AI-assisted workflows — from automated reporting to campaign analysis to client communication drafts
  • Track delivery metrics internally: on-time rates, error rates, client satisfaction signals
  • Manage day-to-day execution across advertising, SEO, and website support teams; set clear performance standards, develop talent, and hold the team accountable for delivery quality
  • Partner with product leaders to align delivery expectations with current platform capabilities and the roadmap toward a fully connected intelligence, advertising, website, and SEO ecosystem
  • Partner with strategists (who own the client relationship and renewals) to flag delivery risks early

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in statistics, business, finance or other related quantitative field; Master’s degree preferred
  • Minimum seven years’ quantitative research experience, including at least two years leading, mentoring, or managing research staff
  • Proven management experience, you have directly managed a team of digital marketing specialists, set performance standards, developed talent, and held the bar on quality
  • Exceptional client-facing communication skills, you are comfortable presenting to business owners and senior decision-makers, translating complex data into clear narratives, and navigating difficult conversations with professionalism and confidence
  • Solid analytics foundation — GA4, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, attribution modeling; you know what the numbers mean and what to do about them
  • Process builder — you have created or improved workflows, reporting templates, or delivery systems that made a team meaningfully more efficient
  • AI fluency — you actively use AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar) in your day-to-day work and are excited to build AI-assisted delivery workflows from the ground up
  • High curiosity — you read, experiment, and bring new ideas; you don't wait to be told what's changing in the industry
  • Calm and steady under pressure; you stabilize situations rather than amplify them

Preferred

  • Background in automotive, equipment, agriculture, construction, or dealer vertical digital marketing — you understand how dealers buy and how they think
  • Familiarity with dynamic inventory advertising (feed-based campaigns, Google Shopping, Meta catalogs)
  • Hands-on experience applying AI tools to digital marketing workflows — reporting automation, campaign analysis, content generation, or client communication
  • Experience helping transition a team from high-touch custom delivery toward a more scalable, productized model
  • Familiarity with website delivery and CMS fundamentals — enough to collaborate effectively with the website services team and advocate for integrated digital experiences
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Founded in 1922
New York, New York, USA
525 employees (185 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
142 (27% of company)
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
73.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27%
Direct
60.3%
Referral
9.3%
Social
2.5%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~529

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Sr. Director, Digital Marketing

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